Adana Demirspor vs Sakaryaspor Match Recap - Oct 18, 2025

Ben Yedder’s Hat Trick Headlines Sakaryaspor’s 6-0 Rout, Plunging Demirspor Deeper Into Crisis

ADANA, Turkey — The floodlights barely cut through the damp October haze at Yeni Adana Stadyumu, but Sakaryaspor’s intent was blindingly clear from the outset. By the final whistle, a battered Adana Demirspor side trudged off a pitch that had become a stage for their unraveling, victims of a 6-0 thrashing that will echo uncomfortably into their troubled autumn.

Wissam Ben Yedder, the 35-year-old French-Monégasque forward whose pedigree was never in question, imposed his quality with a first-half brace and then completed his hat trick just after the hour. But Saturday’s demolition was more than an individual statement—it was a collective reckoning for two clubs moving in opposite directions in Turkey’s 1. Lig.

Adana Demirspor, winless through nine matches and now marooned at the foot of the league with a negative-17 goal difference, had entered the day desperate for a foothold. Instead, they endured a first half that foreshadowed collapse. Sakaryaspor dominated possession and soon turned pressure into penalty. In the 29th minute, Ben Yedder coolly dispatched a spot kick after a clumsy lunge in the area—a moment that seemed to break already brittle resolve.

Eight minutes later, with Demirspor’s defense in retreat, Ben Yedder found space at the edge of the box and rifled in his second, turning muted home support to silence.

The second half compounded the suffering. Sakaryaspor, emboldened by the hosts’ paralysis, added a third in the 57th minute—though the scorer’s name was lost in the frantic unraveling, the net result was perfectly clear. Just three minutes later, Ben Yedder completed his triple: a precisely timed run, a composure that left Demirspor’s beleaguered keeper rooted, and a finish that underscored the gulf in class.

The closing stages brought no respite for the home side. Gaël Kakuta, whose guile and urgency had matched Ben Yedder all afternoon, danced through a shell-shocked defense in the 88th minute to claim his goal. Two minutes later, as if to punctuate the rout, substitute Alparslan Demir capped an intricate passing move with a tap-in—and, in the process, deepened the sense that for Adana Demirspor, nothing could go right.

On the touchline, Sakaryaspor coach’s instructions grew softer: there was little left to demand beyond professionalism. For Adana, shoulders sagged in resignation, their eighth defeat in nine matches registering as a fresh nadir in a season quickly tilting toward disaster.

This was not a one-off, nor a shock: Adana Demirspor’s recent form reads like a litany of defeat. Shut out in four of their last five league games, outscored by a combined margin of 17-0 over that span, and seemingly incapable of arresting the slide. Their lone glimmer—an injury time goal in a cup loss last month—now feels like the faintest echo of resistance.

By contrast, Sakaryaspor arrived in Adana with momentum, buoyed by two wins in their previous four outings and a cagey draw at home to Sivasspor. Still, their own start had been stuttering, with just 11 points from nine matches leaving them mired in the lower half of the table. This emphatic victory—scored with clinical precision and unerring confidence—vaults them to 14th, offering hope that a season of mid-table obscurity might yet find purpose.

The gulf between these sides, not always so pronounced in head-to-head encounters, was absolute on this day. There was no late surge, no flash of home pride to soften the scoreline. Instead, Adana Demirspor’s supporters filtered steadily toward the exits after Kakuta’s strike, unwilling to watch another chapter of a darkening campaign.

In the corridors after the match, the questions for Adana Demirspor’s leadership were sharper than ever. Rock-bottom in the table, goal difference deepening with every outing, and a squad bereft of belief—each round now represents both a test of character and an existential threat to their survival. The international break looms as precious time to regroup, though whether there is enough left to salvage is up for debate.

For Sakaryaspor, the narrative turns. Three victories in their last five suggest a side rediscovering both rhythm and resolve. With Ben Yedder resurgent and Kakuta orchestrating, they can look up the table and picture a season of possibilities—not just avoiding relegation, but, perhaps, chasing something bolder.

As night settled over Adana, the scoreboard told the tale, but the story was written in body language and emptying stands. Sakaryaspor’s players embraced, their season newly alive; Adana Demirspor, meanwhile, slipped into the tunnel, the weight of another heavy defeat making even the short walk feel endless.