Kechöörengeücü saw off Saryer 3-0 at Aktepe Stadium on Saturday evening. The match belonged to the Turkish 1. Lig, Regular Season round 6. The hosts took all three points from a game where they were the more dangerous side.
İbrahim Akdağ opened the scoring in the thirty-eighth minute. He had already picked up a booking sixteen minutes earlier for a foul, but that did not slow him down. And here's the thing — his goal came from a well-worked move that caught the visitors' defence flat-footed.
Saryer responded with changes in the fifty-ninth minute, bringing on Tunahan Ergul for Batuhan Kor. The hosts struck again shortly after, Francis Ezeh finding the net in the sixty-third minute. By then the momentum had shifted entirely, and Saryer's high line was picked apart.
Enes Yılmaz added a third in the eighty-fourth minute. It was a clean finish that sealed the result. The hosts kept their side in it from the start, and the visitors never quite found their rhythm after going behind.
Statistics told the story. Kechöörengeücü had thirty-nine per cent of possession but took six shots on target compared to Saryer's one. The visitors launched ninety-seven attacks but could only manage four corners. To be fair, Saryer had more possession, but the quality of their chances was lacking.
We had backed the hosts to win, and our fifty-three per cent confidence was justified. Kechöörengeücü moved to third place with eleven points, while Saryer sat fifth on ten. The gap between them remained just one point in the table.
This result extended the hosts' run of consistency. They had won two, drawn two and lost one of their previous five matches. Saryer's defeat ended a two-game unbeaten streak that had seen them beat both Pendikspor and Antalyaspor.
