Mardin BB beat Boluspor 3:0 in the 1. Lig
Mardin BB ground out a comfortable away victory against Boluspor at the Bolu Atatürk Stadium on Sunday afternoon, the final whistle confirming a 3:0 win that extends their unbeaten start to the season. To be fair, the visitors had been building toward this result — two wins and three draws from five matches puts them fourth in the table, while Boluspor sit bottom after five defeats and zero points.
And here's the thing about this match: it was decided early. D. Taskan opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute, then M. Sengul doubled the lead seven minutes later before Boluspor could settle. The hosts had possession but no direction — 46 per cent of the ball, eight shots off target, none on goal. By then the game was effectively over.
Mardin BB made their control visible in the statistics. They registered five shots on target against Boluspor's zero, converted at 45 per cent accuracy while the hosts failed to test their keeper at all. The Boluspor goalkeeper made two saves from nothing — that's a reflection more than a statistic. Boluspor fouled nine times compared to Mardin's three, another sign of frustration.
The visitors' defensive discipline was worth noting, particularly after Z. Dimitrov picked up a yellow card in the seventeenth minute. K. A. Cuesta Rodriguez followed suit for Boluspor in the thirty-ninth, and neither side received a red card. Mardin worked from the back with 430 successful passes out of 501, while Boluspor managed 337 from 420.
Substitutions came in waves as the game fell apart for the home side. Boluspor brought on F. E. Kacmaz and A. Cayli at the break, then G. Akkan in the fifty-fifth, but the pattern never changed. Mardin responded with B. Balat and Z. Dimitrov's replacement in the sixty-fourth, E. Tasdemir and D. Denic at seventy-four, before A. Uluk added a third goal in the seventy-sixth minute.
The result leaves Mardin BB nine points from the bottom, Boluspor still searching for their first point of the campaign. And here's the thing — Boluspor have now lost every game they've played this season. Mardin's clean-sheet run came to an end, but they put the game to bed early enough that it hardly mattered.
