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Saka & Konya Keep Up European Quest
Date: 28-2-2007
Wrote: EP's editor Islam Issa

Konyaspor captain Abdelzaher El Saka played in his club's triumph at Sivasspor.

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Konya continued their woeful defending of high set-pieces, which have led to many goals in their net this season. A corner after 25 minutes went into the mess, El Saka couldn't get his head onto it, and it was flicked in by Frangsergio to make the score 1-0.

Siva continued to attack and could have had a penalty when Mehmet Yildiz turned past El Saka in style before being put down by the another defender inside the area. The referee waved play on though.

The second half saw a mighty come-back from the visitors, and the Egyptian was involved. He marched forward and played a nice pass to a team-mate, who chipped the ball into the box, finding Neca who slotted in the equaliser.

Siva began their pressure but El Saka was alert. He headed away a dangerous long ball, but it came back to an attacker, who fortunately shot wide. Strangely enough, the exact same incident occurred again just minutes later, only from a cross which El Saka had headed away, only for it to fall to an attacker.

Neca got his second to put Konya in front, though this was against the run of play. He chipped the ball coolly over goalkeeper Petkovic after a fine through ball in the 70th minute.


In the final minutes the drama heightened. A Siva winger cut in on the right before whipping a dangerous low ball into the box. It was going across the face of the goal but El Saka managed to throw himself in its way brilliantly to deny an equaliser.

With Siva committed forward, Konya grabbed a third after an easy counter which saw a ball played into the box for Erman to score. At the other end, El Saka did even better as he stopped another similar ball heading for the target, clearing it off the line.

With this result Konya continued their European quest...

Sivasspor:
Petkovic x, Cem Can x, Murat x, Servet xx, Hayrettin x, Cvetkov xx, Frangsergio xx, Yasir x (Colosimo min. 75 ?), Serdar x (Musa min. 46 x), Ilhan x (Gürhan min. 65 x), Mehmet Yildiz xx

Konyaspor: Özden xx, Ömer xx, El Saka xx, Erkan xx (Sedat min. 74 x), Erman Ergin xx, Dasilva xx, Mustafa xx, Eren xx, Erman Özgür xx, Tayfun xx (Eder min. 81 ?), Neca xxx (Muhammed Abdullah (min. 90 ?)

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