Hekimoğlu Trabzon and Ankara Demirspor Share Points in Second Lig Clash
Hekimoğlu Trabzon and Ankara Demirspor played out a 2-2 draw in the Second Lig Red Group stage three fixture on Sunday. The match ended level after both sides traded goals across the ninety minutes, leaving the visitors still top of the table with seven points from three games.
C. Bozkurt opened the scoring for the hosts at the thirty-first minute, but H. Ozdemir levelled just before half-time in the forty-fifth minute plus one. S. Akyildiz gave Ankara Demirspor the lead after the break in the forty-ninth minute, and B. Karadag rescued a point for Trabzon in the eighty-eighth minute.
And the red card to S. Yilmaz for the hosts in the sixtieth minute meant Trabzon had to defend their lead for the final thirty minutes with ten men. They refused to go away, though, and held their nerve until Karadag's late equaliser.
The statistics tell a story of different approaches. Ankara Demirspor registered eighty-one attacks compared to the hosts' fifty-seven, and took nine corners to three. Trabzon had four yellow cards to the visitors' one, and their single red card shifted the balance of the game.
By then, the standings showed how far apart these two sides have moved. Ankara Demirspor sit second with two wins and a draw, while Hekimoğlu Trabzon remain thirteenth with only one point from three matches.
The result keeps the visitors in the hunt for promotion and extends their unbeaten run to three games. For the hosts, it is a point earned away from home despite playing much of the second half with ten men, but they remain bottom half of the table.
