A brace, and Nuno Da Costa takes the afternoon — 9.31
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nuno Da Costa provided it, and the 9.31 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Yohan Boli was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑2, Oguzhan Yazici could afford to be generous.
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There were 86 minutes on the clock and Fatih Karagumruk had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Antalyaspor did not stop to explain themselves.
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Antalyaspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Up for the corner, and Georgy Djikia delivers — 7.96
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Georgy Djikia scored, was marked 7.96, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Yohan Boli and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Oguzhan Yazici kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
2‑6 to Besiktas, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Antalyaspor and Besiktas in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
5 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑6, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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