Turkish Cup

one-legged game

if 90 min ends in a draw, extra time to be played, if no winner again, penalty shootouts

normally, I was set to skip this game as I thought both teams would start with reserve players and it would be hard to guess what will happen.

but, after I listened Kastamonuspor coach on a local TV channel last evening, I decided to bet on Ankara Demirspor.

I will directly translate his (Kastamonuspor coach) words:

"We actually had a target in Turkish Cup. We still have. We came here with players that could not play a lot in league games, we will play with them in this cup game. We will surely play to win, I trust in my players. We have a disadvantage like that; because of a flying problem in our airport, some of our away games take four days. We travel two days before the game and we have to stay in that city after the game. The reason why we changed our idea on Turkish Cup is we thought if we keep staying in Turkish Cup, the travels can damage the team and it would decrease the number of trainings we can. It may ruin our working environment. We decided to 'go with flow' about that. If we win (in cup), we will continue like that. But we don't have a serious target to keep going in Turkish Cup and the only reason is it makes our travel Schedule very hard. Because of our geographical location, travelling is a big problem for us."

I don't know how Kastamonuspor players will be motivated to win while their coach thinks like that. 

and probably not only coach, probably the players also think in same way.

I also don't know if they will play with "reserve" players or maybe lots of U19 players, just like what Kepezspor did yesterday.

Kastamonuspor play for title in 2nd League so Turkish Cup is nonsense for them. 

Ankara Demirspor started with only two regulars in the previous round. Maybe they will start with reserve players again and their rezerve players are mostly young players. 

But, I just think that Kastamonuspor don't want to get through in Turkish Cup.

So I'm on Ankara Demirspor here.