Ertuglul Saglam has worked on difficult conditions at Bursaspor
Following the defeat against Kayserispor with 2:1 scoreline, Bursaspor has decided to terminate contract with its head coach Ertuglul Saglam with mutual agreement. Ertuglul Saglam reign during this season has recieved lots of criticism especially from its fans.
However, Bursaspor poor performance this season, 5 wins after 13 weeks, should not only be put to the Ertuglul Saglam even through he has big role on this. During last summer transfer window Bursaspor has lost lots number of its key members, especially losing players such Ozan Tufan, Volkan Sen and Fernandao to Fenerbahce. In fact, it has lost so many key players that when clubs wanted to purchase Serdar Aziz club had stated clearly it will not sell him. Now with much weaker squad, while opponents squads has become stronger it was expected for Bursaspor not to run for league title and have difficulty at the race of Europa League spots in this season.
Its needs to be reminded that Ertuglul Saglam as head coach of the team has made club champions of Turkey during 2009-10 season, only 5th team to achieve that. Following that, club had its classical mediocre performance but this fact should not be forgotten.
Fenerbahce has advantage for last game: home and unaimed opponent.
Both Fenerbahce and Besiktas need at least a point to qualify to round of 32 at the Europa League, however Fenerbahce task is much easier compare to Besiktas.
Before analysing lets take quick look at the table: Molde: 10 points, Fenerbahce: 8 points, Ajax: 6 points and Celtic 2 points. As Fenerbahce, is going to play at home against Celtic, team which has no chance to qualify it should be really expected that Fenerbahce will at least get a draw at its own home ground. Another advantage is great defence by club which didnt concedes hardly any goals in last weeks.
There is even chance that Fenerbahce might end group as the leaders after dissapointing start of group. However, it should be expected that Molde will not play like it did against Fenerbahce, during game against Ajax as it will try to end group as leaders. My expectation for last week game is Fenerbahce will win while Ajax will draw game.
Besiktas needs to provide great defence against Sporting
As been stated at Fenerbahce analysis, Besiktas task is much harder even if its leader at the group. It just needs one point but it is against difficult Sporting who will fight until last minute at home to get round 32 qualifying spot.
Now lets once again look at the table. Leader is Besiktas: 10 points, Lokomotiv: 9, Sporting: 8 and Skenderbreu with 3 points. Assuming that Lokomotiv would win Skenderbreu, Besiktas needs to be especially careful at the game against its opponents.
It could be argued that Sporting as opponent is harder than Lokomotiv so therefore it wont be easy task for Besiktas at all during final game. But in other side, if Besiktas be careful at defence it should be able to get round of 32 spot but it wont be easy.
Results
Turkish Super League, 13th week
Antalyaspor 1:1 Osmanlispor
Rizespor 0:0 Konyaspor
Bursaspor 1:2 Kayserispor
Schedule
Turkish Super League, 13th week
16:00 Sivasspor - Basaksehir
19:00 Eskisehirspor - Mersin IdmanYurdu
In other news:
- Turkish Football Federation has announced that draw for Turkish Cup group stage will take place on 7th December at 14:30.
- Trabzonspor CEO candidate Celil Hekimoglu: Club has lost its sympthasers in the football world. Trabzonspor is been managed wrongly. I believe that club administrators need to be more inside the club to see what is happening within.
- Besiktas player Cenk Tosun was selected at the Europa League best 11 after 5th week games.
- Trabzonspor CEO candidate Temel Eyupoglu: If I am elected, my aim will be to get rid of debt at the club. With me winner will be Trabzonspor.
- Galatasaray will have one-on-one talks with Wesley Snejder following his comments after Atletico Madrid game.
- Trabzonspor player Esteban Alvarado has requested for his salary to be paid by club as soon as possible.
- ShanghaiShenhua is offering 10 million Euro for Antalyaspor player Samuel Eto'o
- Besiktas player Ersan Gulum has become injured and wont be able to play for 3 weeks.
- Galatasaray and Konyaspor are interested to transfer Hannover 96 player Mevlut Erdinc.
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