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May 27, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Paşa teaches Turkish Cup holder Beşiktaş a good soccer lesson

Going gets tough for Mustafa Denizli
14 January 2010 / OKAN UDO BASSEY , İSTANBUL
The Ziraat Turkish Cup, dubbed the “tournament of upsets,” again lived up to its name as tiny Kasımpaşa trounced Beşiktaş 3-1 before its home fans at İstanbul’s İnönü Stadium in their Group D match on Tuesday night.

This means that the “mighty” Beşiktaş Black Eagles, who won the cup last season, are pointless after two outings, having been beaten 2-1 away by Manisaspor in their opening match last month. And it also means that the Eagles have not won in any of their last six official matches. The results are as follows:

Beşiktaş-Diyarbakırspor....:   0-0 (Turkcell Super League)

Beşiktaş-CSKA Moscow....:   1-2 (Champions League)

Manisaspor-Beşiktaş........:   1-1 (Turkcell Super League)

Beşiktaş-Bursaspor..........:     2-3 (Turkcell Super League)

Manisaspor-Beşiktaş........:   2-1 (Ziraat Turkish Cup)

Beşiktaş-Kasımpaşa.........:   1-3 (Ziraat Turkish Cup)

Yılmaz Vural’s Kasımpaşa, popularly known as “Paşa,” started Tuesday’s game offensively and was rewarded for its efforts after just seven minutes when midfielder Merthan Açıl headed in a corner kick that gave Paşa a 1-0 lead.

Leftie Cenk İşler doubled the score 14 minutes later, in the 21st to be more precise, with another header goal that beat the new Beşiktaş keeper neat and clear, and Moritz converted a penalty in the 26th to make the score 3-0.

Most Beşiktaş fans are not the least bit happy with the way the Eagles are performing and wasted no time in unleashing their anger on Chairman Yıldırım Demirören when their team was three goals down. Ear-splitting chants of “Enough, Yıldırım Demirören, enough” echoed across the İnönü Stadium, another clear warning that things simply cannot continue like this.

Veteran 30-something midfielder Yusuf Şimşek scored the consolation goal for Beşiktaş two minutes before the break, but it was far too little to remove the risk of early elimination. The pointless Eagles are first from bottom in Group D and still face an early exit from the competition even if they win their two remaining matches.

Upsets are not uncommon in the Turkish Cup and the current situation of Beşiktaş is living proof of this. Also remember the Fenerbahçe Canaries’ elimination in the third round of the 1999 cup competition by third division Pendikspor and Erzurumspor ousting Galatasaray from the competition in 2001.

The Beşiktaş Black Eagles, who also won the Turkcell Super League championship last season, have been all over the place in 2009-10, and Wednesday’s Ziraat Turkish Cup debacle will only make a bad situation even worse.

“If you concede goals like water through a sieve you just cannot win,” visibly frustrated Beşiktaş coach Mustafa Denizli said after the match. “And this is exactly what we experienced.”

Without a single victory in six official matches, excluding the defeat by Hamburg in the unofficial Tuttur.com Cup final on Saturday, Denizli has definitely run out of ideas and justifications. The faithful fans want to see their team return to its winning ways, not vain excuses.

A word to the wise is enough.

The other Group D match, between Manisaspor and İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor, ended exactly the way it started, 0-0.  It was a rather good-tempered match in which only three players were booked, but the fans who watched the match at the Manisa 19 Mayıs Stadium were deprived of the moments they had all been waiting for -- goals.

Remaining matches

Jan. 16: İstanbul BşB-Beşiktaş;

Jan. 17: Konya Şekerspor-Manisa; Kasımpaşa (bye)

Jan. 26: Kasımpaşa-İstanbul BşB; Beşiktaş-Konya Şekerspor; Manisaspor (bye). 

 
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