Another Red card, Another two points dropped, Galatasaray 1-1 Kayserispor

By: Musab | February 8th, 2009

After being knocked out of the Turkish Cup, a very solid Kayserispor paid us a visit. The ref once again single handidly took away points from us. So far theres been the Eskisehirspor, Ankaraspor, and Sivasspor matches where the referee had a direct impact on the match. In a match that started off perfectly normal, the referee made key decisions that impacted the game.

GALATASARAY-KAYSERİSPOR: 1-1
Stadium: Ali Sami Yen
Referees: Selçuk Dereli, Hüseyin Fidan, Muharrem Yılmaz

GALATASARAY: De Sanctis, Sabri, Servet, Emre Aşık, Mehmet Güven (min. 61 Linderoth), Arda, Ayhan, Mehmet Topal, Lincoln, Baros (min. 71 Barış), Nonda

KAYSERİSPOR: Souleymanou, Mehmet Eren, Ali Turan, Eren, Toledo (min. 68 Turgay), Mehmet Topuz, Saidou, Ragıp (min. 46 Olenbe), Abdullah (min. 46 Bilal Aziz), Aghahowa, Cangele

Yellow Cards: min. 22 Lincoln, min. 32 Baros, min. 62 Emre Aşık (Galatasaray) min. 45 Aghahowa (Kayserispor)

Red Card: min. 28 Lincoln
Goals: min. 27 Nonda; min. 90 Mehmet Eren

We started off well, we got the goal in the 28th minutes after a wonderful play by Nonda. Mind you this is another goal by a man ive written off a few posts ago. Then it began. Before the goal Lincoln was brought down by a Kayserispor player and was booked for diving. Was it a dive? I want to say no, but there’s something in my mind that just doesnt feel comfortable about it. Did the Kayserispor player mistime his challenge? Yes. Did Lincoln get hooked onto his leg? Yes. Was it sudden and without any time for Lincoln to actually see the challenge and dive? Yes. Then what’s wrong here? Maybe its because its Lincoln. At the end of the day Lincoln was brought down and we should have been awarded a penalty. Instead Lincoln gets the yellow card.

Soon after the goal, Selcuk Dereli realizes that Galatasaray will probably go on and take all three points if the game continues like this so he decides to take action. When a Kayserispor player decides to take a quick foul, Lincoln tries to block its movement, and so the ref books him again and sends him off. I’m not going to discuss the fact that blockingoff a quick foul is not grounds for a yellow card. Instead I’m going to talk about the fact that Emre Asik is completely at fault for Lincoln’s dismissal. Right before the foul, Emre Asik grabbed the ball and stopped the Kayseri player from taking the foul for a few seconds before the ball was given back to another player who hit Lincoln with the ball. If Emre left the original Kayseri player to play, Lincoln wouldn’t have gotten involved. But no. Our idiot has to be anti-professional. This is what happens when you have no more central defenders.

The game continued without a single Kayseri chance for a goal against 10 man Galatasaray. Milan Baros was struck on the head by a Kayseri defender which resulted in him bleeeding. He then smeared his hand in the blood and smothered it on the ref. Well done Milan, you could have been banned for life. Soon after that, Milan Baros was brought down in the penalty box and was not awarded a penalty. And finally in the 91st minute, a weak shot by Mehmet Eren was deflected off Tobias Linderoth who returned after months away from football, and found teh back of the net as De Sanctis was completely dumbfounded.

I’m not angry at the referee at all. No actually I’m angry the Galatasaray board for never opening up their mouths and trying to save this team from the referees. When a referee made a simple mistake in a Fener match, the good swine of Fener’s board member swore that they would try to pull away from the Turkish league and play in the Sapmi league. There was not a single error made against Fener again. Instead everything went Fener’s way (Konyaspor, Ankaraspor, Eskisehirspor). When something went the wrong way for Besiktas, they yelled up and down that “Besiktas is bigger than what people may think” and that “If we slam our fists on teh table nobody can remain under it” and my personal favorite “For the next match, we’re only going to play our youngsters and we’re going to lock the Inonu stadium to our fans”. They went out with a full strength squad with fans protesting the poor management of the team. They lost 1-2. Same goes for Trabzonspor. When they conceded a late goal against a Bursaspor that comletely outplayed them for 90 minutes, protests were designed and black balloons were released.

I’m not advocating the same insanity that these lesser teams decided on. However we need to do something quick and decisive. Otherwise this will continue.