Adana 1954 claimed a 4-3 victory over Ankara Demispor in the 2. Lig Red Group on Sunday evening, a match that swung back and forth until the final whistle. The result keeps both sides level on seven points from four games, though Adana move into third place while Ankara drop to fourth in the table.
And Ankara took the lead when E. Cetinkaya found the net in the thirty-third minute, but to be fair the visitors responded quickly with M. Kurt's equaliser fifty-one minutes in. The home side regained the advantage through D. Yasar's goal in the fifty-ninth minute, and by then it felt like a tight affair between two evenly matched sides.
And here's the thing about this game — it was Adana 1954 who turned it on in the closing stages. H. Demir scored twice in rapid succession, first in the sixty-eighth minute and then again in the seventy-first, before E. Aydin added a third for the visitors in the seventy-fourth. Ankara had carved them open earlier, but now they were the ones under pressure.
A. Demirel pulled one back for the hosts in the eighty-sixth minute, but it was too little too late. The away side saw the game out despite picking up five yellow cards compared to Ankara's two, and the result means Adana's slight edge in the table could prove crucial come the end of the season.
Both teams had looked solid before this encounter, with Ankara unbeaten in their opening four matches and Adana showing similar resilience. Ankara had won three of their last four games before drawing 2-2 with Hekimoglu Trabzon, while Adana had bounced back from a defeat to Sakya with a 3-2 win over Yeni Orduspor. This result will make life awkward for both managers in the weeks ahead.
