Match Report: Karaakay Belediyespor 1-4 Ankara Gücü
Ankara Gücü secured a convincing four-goal victory over Karaakay Belediyespor in the 2. Lig Red Group on Sunday, extending their unbeaten run to two matches while the hosts suffered their second defeat in three outings. The visitors took control early, capitalising on a red card that left their opponents chasing the game for the remainder of the contest.
The turning point arrived in the twenty-seventh minute when O. Colak received his marching orders, leaving Karaakay Belediyespor with ten men. By then, the visitors had already seized momentum, and the own goal from I. Has in the thirty-first minute compounded the hosts' troubles before the break.
A. Guner made it three in the thirty-fourth minute, and the visitors never looked back. A. Yumurtaci added a fourth in the fifty-eighth, and though Karaakay Belediyespor showed brief spirit, M. Yigit and Guner's second in the seventy-eighth and eightieth minutes sealed the result.
What struck was how quickly the visitors adapted to the numerical advantage. They didn't need to change their approach — simply held their shape and waited for the hosts to make mistakes. The clean-sheet run came to an end for Karaakay Belediyespor, but the scoreline reflected a team that found no answer once the red card disrupted their rhythm.
Both sides remained without yellow cards, which says something for the discipline displayed, though the hosts' single red card tells the real story. Karaakay Belediyespor sit thirteenth with four points from three games, while Ankara Gücü occupy tenth after four matches and also on four points.
The result means the visitors close the gap on the teams above them, while the hosts now face a difficult run if they want to climb out of the bottom half. Three goals in the opening half-hour set the tone — and the rest was simply a matter of closing out what had already been decided.
