Serik Beldiyespor and Fetihyespor met in the 2. Lig Red Group on Sunday, and the visitors carried off a narrow victory. The match ended 0:1 after M. Turkmen found the net in the thirteenth minute. To be fair, the hosts ought to have done more with the territory they held.
The goal came from Turkmen, who was left flat-footed by the defensive line before slotting home. Serik Beldiyespor pushed forward relentlessly, registering 135 attacks against 82 for the visitors. And here's the thing — they didn't even manage a corner.
The game was effectively over after that opening strike, though the hosts refused to sit back. They threw bodies in the way of the ball, but without a corner to fall back on, there wasn't much to work with. By then, Fetihyespor had already put the game to bed.
What followed was a matter of survival. Serik Beldiyespor kept their heads for the most part, but discipline slipped at the death. S. Yildiz received a red card in the 90+4th minute, and the incident went to review before the referee made his decision.
The statistics tell you something about how the match was shaped. The hosts dominated in possession terms, but dominance without a corner is a hollow kind of control. The visitors got away with zero corners and zero yellow cards — a clean sheet run that came to an end somewhere in the middle of Istanbul.
For Serik Beldiyespor, the result keeps them in eighth place with five points from four games. They had drawn twice and suffered one defeat before this, so the loss leaves them hovering above the drop zone. Fetihyespor remain 14th with four points, and the table goes out of the window in these games anyway.
