An unusual moment occurred in the Kocaelispor-Konyaspor match in the Turkish league on Saturday afternoon: visibly irritated by the penalty awarded against his team in the 90+4th minute, the visiting coach ordered the entire bench to head to the locker room immediately in protest. Konyaspor, currently 12th in the league, was leading until the 86th minute (Dursun scored in the 56th minute), when Kramer equalized. In stoppage time, the referee called a handball on the visiting team's defender, a decision that Ilhan Palut deemed poor, prompting his unusual gesture of pushing all staff and players, including Portuguese Diogo Gonçalves, formerly of Benfica, who was called up but not used. The protests earned the coach a red card, which meant he missed Muleka scoring the 2-1 from the penalty spot for the home team.
Ilhan Palut Portuguese Diogo remains central to this story.
Ilhan Palut Portuguese Diogo remains central to this story.
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