Fenerbahce has got an important win with penalty duel against Rizespor.
Game between Fenerbahce and Rizespor has ended with 2:1 scoreline with all of the goals has been scored by penalty kicks. As the game progressed both clubs didnt play very good football and with those penalty shots has brought an important win for Fenerbahce and managed to make point difference as 5 points with Besiktas having two games in a hand.
The game itself was very dull especially during second half as both clubs had difficulty at obtaining positions and controlling the ball during the game. At first half, Fenerbahce has controlled the game with creating chances but having trouble at converting them during the game. With two penalties of Fenerbahce has brought the leadership which was surely difficult for Rizespor to catch with its poor performance at the game. Undoubtedly, the early penalty goal by Rizespor at the start of 2nd half has affected negatively to the Fenerbahce. With conceding goal Fenerbahce start controlling ball but didnt manage to hold affectively and going forward.
Regardless of poor performance, Fenerbahce has continued its winning streak at the Super League and has managed to get leadership with 5 points with Besiktas having two games at the hand. There are many areas where Fenerbahce could be criticised at today's game, however it got must needed win and carries on the league with heads high and surely has made big difference in the standings against main rivals Galatasaray, and hence kicking them out from title race.
Coming to Rizespor, it didnt manage to control game at all and allowing to some extend for Fenerbahce to keep the ball at its control. Rizespor surely needs to learn lots of lessons from today's game and find areas for its improvement.
Galatasaray situation is very difficult to manage within team.
Galatasaray chances of getting league title is getting into almost to none after losing to Osmanlispor with 3:2 scoreline at the game yesterday. With being behind both Fenerbahce and Besiktas with a point difference makes tasks of the team to very hard and needs really some miracle to take place for Galatasaray to become champions this season.
Galatasaray performance yesterday did not show that players wanted to win the game as been mentioned at the blog yesterday. It does seem that despite of words of players and head coach Mustafa Denizli that their fight until the end doesnt coincide with how players are performing at the games. It seems that the players had lost belief of achieving this difficult task which has become almost to impossible with a loss yesterday evening. With also UEFA FFP risk of not competing at European championship in next season and also Burak Yilmaz possibility of leaving to West Ham United raises questions, of the morale of the team and number of difficult tasks which administrators are have in hand.
Right now, Galatasaray will fight for obtaining 3rd place as other teams who are competing for European competitions are catching up with them and has higher motivation as their not fighting for league title while for Galatasaray its unwanted territory which affects negatively to the team performance and morale.
Besiktas has been mostly damaged by heavy snow.
The snow which took place across Turkey during last 7 days has provided most damage in football wise to the Besiktas whose two games were cancelled due of snow and field conditions. Last week Mersin Idman Yurdu game in Istanbul has been cancelled due of sudden snow making referee not to see lines at the field, while Trabzonspor game was cancelled due of whole stadium being white with snow keep going heavily.
With the both games to be cancelled, it made Fenerbahce to raise point difference and hence provides problem of really analysing situation of the league and fight for the title as Besiktas did not play its game and other problem is uncertainty to which dates to put those games at the schedule. This uncertainty would surely provide stress to head coach Senol Gunes and its players, and to some extend for Fenerbahce not realising its situation at the table. Coming to cancelled games, this decision could not be really criticised as conditions were hard to be played and would provide low lack of football, as was observed at five minutes played last week against Mersin IdmanYurdu.
Currently, there is possible expectation that those games will be put when European games will be played as it is allowed by UEFA to put those games on dates as long as its not played at the same time. There are dates when games could be played but it is hard to find them due of busy schedule of Super League and Turkish Cup games.
Results
Turkish Super League, 19th week
Genclerbirligi 1:0 Antalyaspor
Sivasspor 1:2 Eskisehirspor
Fenerbahce 2:1 Rizespor
Gaziantepspor 2:3 Bursaspor
Schedule
Turkish Super League, 19th week
20:00 Basaksehirspor - Kasimpasa
In other news:
-Trabzonspor vice-CEO Ahmet Cubukcu: This was heaviest snow in Trabzon for past year. TFF workers were present in stadium. We cleaned field but in 10 minutes it all become covered with snow again. Hence we cancelled game.
- Besiktas spokesman Metin Albayrak: We came here yesterday, weather was good but it had snowed heavily today.Everything was made for game to be played. We need to think everything positively.We will write letter to Turkish Football Federation tomorrow and wait for those games to be played.
-Besiktas newly-signed player Alexis Delgado has arrived to Istanbul.
- Salernitana are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Luis Cavanda.
- Schalke04 are interested to transfer Spartak Moscow player Serdar Tasci.
- West Ham United has offered 6.6 million euro for Galatasaray player Burak Yilmaz.
- Besiktas stadium responsible Turgut Akhan:Due of weather conditions we cant currently fly to Istanbul.Our plane didnt arrive yet to Trabzon
- Fenerbahce head coach Vitor Pereira said that he might consider to bring back Emmanuel Emenike to team.
- Jiangsu has offered 10 million euro for Besiktas player Mario Gomez.
- Galatasaray plans to start direct negotiations with Cracowia Krakow player Bartosz Kapustka.
- Besiktas player Ersan Gulum wants to be transferred to Shanghai Shenhua due of high salary offer.
- Fenerbahce player Robin Van Persie wont start at starting 11 in game against Rizespor.
- Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Emre Colak.
- Atletico Madrid has offered 17 million euro to Besiktas player Gokhan Tore.
- It became clear that Galatasaray needs to pay 25% to Trabzonspor in case if Burak Yilmaz is transferred to other club.
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