Konyaspor 0-1 Galatasaray, Baby Steps…Baby Steps…

By: Musab | March 1st, 2009

It’s been six days since The Great Captain came to power and so far his job looks pretty unenviable. A week ago Galatasaray suffered a crushing 2-5 defeat at home and just barely got past Bordeaux in the UEFA Cup after a 4-3 ~~heart attack~~ thriller. As I stated before, the Bordeaux match showed Bulent what’s wrong with this team and what has to be done in order to make it succesful again. I hope you had your pen and paper out for today’s match, Bulent.

KONYASPOR: 0 – GALATASARAY: 1
Stadium: Atatürk
Referees: Tolga Özkalfa, Serkan Gençerler, Muhittin Gürses

KONYASPOR: Jefferson, Milos, Ömer, Kratochvil, Celaleddin (min. 70 Da Silva), Cihan, Ayman, Zafer Demir (min. 84 Mehmet Çoğum), Bülent Bölükbaşı, Poljac (min. 50 İsmail), Veysel

GALATASARAY: De Sanctis, Sabri, Meira, Emre Aşık, Hakan, Kewell (min. 66 Aydın), Barış, Ayhan, Arda (min. 76 Mehmet Güven), Lincoln, Baros (min. 46 Ümit Karan)

Goal: min. 11 Arda (Galatasaray)

Yellow Card: min. 55 Cihan (Konyaspor) min. 74 Sabri, min. 76 Meira (Galatasaray)

Now that was one piss-poor match. Perhaps the most nauseating display of football I’ve had the displeasure of watching this season. I’ll make it simple, Veysel took was one-on-one with the keeper but he missed. Arda latched onto a defensive mistake and scored. Bulent Bolukbasi had a chance but missed. That’s it.

I guess after the roller cycle trip that we were viciously forced on, we can’t really expect top-class footy. Not yet at least. Bulent had to get immediate results if he wanted to silence some of his early critics and for us to continue with our hopes for titles. That being said, there weren’t too many defensive blunders against a Konyaspor that absolutely deserves to be relgated to the second league. Konya never seemed threatening at all and they were justly defeated in their own stadium as they ebb slowly toward the relegation zone. Giray Hoca’s got a long and tough road ahead of him.

Well the state of the defense just gets worse by the week. Emre Asik’s been injured and Sabri will miss the next match because of yellow card accumulation. So at this point we have no right backs and only a Meira in very poor form in central defense. All of these injuries are a result of poor training and unprofessionalism which have effectively destroyed this team. Thanks Skibbe.

With Sivas’ lost at Fener, there’s now 5 points between us and joint leaders Trabzon and Sivas. Next week Bursa pay us a visit, the reverse fixture of which we lost 2-1. It’ll be another tough fight for the CimBom as theyll struggle to put together a formidable starting 11.

February was a tough month for the CimBom faithful. Here’s to hoping that March will see our fortunes pick up once again under Bulent Korkmaz.