Fenerbahce has won last 16 game against determined Kayserispor
The game between Fenerbahce and Kayserispor at the Turkish Cup has shown at least from first game of knockout stages that the level of performance of the teams has been risen and we would see different tournament with much higher quality football which could bring surprising results. Fenerbahce has got to quarter-finals with 1:0 scoreline at 2nd extra time with goal by Diego Ribas and Kayserispor has shown difficult moments for the Istanbul side.
The change of priority for Fenerbahce in fact became obvious with the squad of the team, which was in fact strongest since start of the tournament. Fenerbahce was playing controlled and attacking football while the opponents Kayserispor has provided great defence and has went also in attacks making clear it will find goal positions during the game, without forgetting discipline. Despite of all low number of supporters at the game, the game itself was played at very high quality and has shown how much both teams wanted to win the game. As said above, it surely shows that Fenerbahce head coach Vitor Pereira is changing focus for the tournament. Prior to goal of Diego Ribas at 113rd minute there were high number of goal-scoring opportunities by Robin van Persie, Fernandao and Lazar Markovic which were stopped by defence and mainly by Kayserispor goalkeeper Abdulaziz.
Fenerbahce has won well-deserved game against Kayserispor as it tried its best as it needed to and with Kayserispor player Mustafa Akbas getting red card few minutes before goal had gave them opportunity to find goal which was hard to find while game was played 11 to 11. Fenerbahce is now gets to quarter-final and might change priority and viewpoint of the Turkish Cup from now on.
Meanwhile, Kayserispor has played a great football and players should be proud of themselves with only disadvantage is red card recieved by Mustafa Akbas but despite that very good play by Kayserispor.
Turkish Cup for Galatasaray could be alternative for success this season.
Galatasaray would play against Gaziantepspor at the Turkish Cup last 16 game tomorrow as the tournament is getting into serious aspect with 1-game elimination at this stage. Galatasaray as been mentioned before might change the priorities and might turn out to be much higher favourite of the Turkish Cup, if it decides to be.
Lots of supporters and critics does see Turkish Cup as 2nd tournament and failure at the Turkish Super League and European tournaments bad play would be seen as bad season, regardless how it performs at the Turkish Cup. However, if Galatasaray does manage to win tomorrow and get Turkish Cup in the May than it could be seen at least some success to at the season. Coming to the game, big focus would be to Sinan Gumus with his high performance during the last games and he would be respected to be key player at the game tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Gaziantepspor should not be ruled out as it has high motivation especially with midweek win against Trabzonspor with 2:0 scoreline. Gaziantepspor surely will not just allow Galatasaray to win the game.
Besiktas is coming out as favourite but it doesnt perform best football at cup so far.
Among of all of the big "4" games at the Turkish Cup, Besiktas has easiest opponent as it would play against 1st league team against Bucaspor even through Bucapor did finish its group as leaders at the previous stage of the tournament.
As been mentioned at yesterday blog, Besiktas was criticised for purposefully losing to Sivas Belediyespor on Thursday so to meet against Bucaspor at the last 16 stage. Regardless if that is case it is observed that Besiktas didnt perform good enough at the last 2 games of the Turkish Cup and taking account there was no league game didnt so far in this year it has showed performance which is expected by them compare to 1st half of the season. Apart of that, Besiktas does come as strong favourites and as long players will take this seriously should get desired results with no big issues.
Of course, ending as group leaders Bucaspor will not show big fear from Besiktas and will try their best to win and bring another surprise to Besiktas. It should also use its advantage of playing home very strongly for to succeed in game.
Results
Turkish Cup, Last 16
Fenerbahce 1:0 Kayserispor
Schedule
Turkish Cup, Last 16
14:00 Bursaspor - Amed Sportif
16:00 Konyaspor - Antalyaspor
17:45 Bucaspor - Besiktas
18:30 Sivas Belediyespor - Rizespor
20:45 Galatasaray - Gaziantepspor
In other news:
- TurkishCup draw for quarter-finals and semi-finals will take place on 2nd February.
- Besiktas 2nd CEO Ahmet Nur Cebi: Everyone wants to be 2nd CEO at the club. Their doors should be opened.I might not understand which players are good or not. We have professional workers who research this.We have good conversation with Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes as we both speak Turkish and from Trabzon.Slaven Bilic played players who were in good condition, Senol Gunes tried to develop players. Our club needs 3 goalkeepers, thats why we transferred Denis Boyko. We happy with Tolga Zengin performance.Postponed games didnt affect our morale, but brought confusion.Hopefully we wont be stopped to become champions with mistakes of referees.
- Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim: I am not leaving the club on May. I am still here as CEO. We pay our taxes each year, this year we paid 86-96 million taxes from our own resources. After match -fixing we will open case to everyone but all of them are running away currently.We had recieved 20 million euro offer for LuisNani, club wanted to give him salary 10 million euro. We wanted 1 million euro loan fee from West Ham United for Emmanuel Emenike, and would sell him for 11 million
- Trabzonspor has signed its ex-player Jose Bosingwa for 1.5 +1 years.
- Bursaspor player Pablo Batalla has signe 2.5 year contract with team.
- Eskisehirspor has principally agreed to sign Guangzhou player Jeremy Bokila. Club has also loaned Konyaspor player Donny Junior.
- Trabzonspor is having negotiations with Samsung, Avea and Turkcell for sponsorship of its Akyazi Stadium
- Eskisehirspor has signed Beylerbeyi player Ismail Erdogan and Adana Genclerbirligi player Mehmet Ozcan.
- Trabzonspor has signed 1461 Trabzon player Serge Akakpo.
- Galatasaray is planning to double 550 thousand euro salary of its player Sinan Gumus.
- Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim: Emmanuel Emenike is still in Dubai. West Ham United wants to loan him for 1 million euro.West Ham United is willing to pay 11 million euro after he reaches 10 games.
- Besiktas players Alexis Delgado and Denis Boyko are included at club squad during Turkish Cup game against Bucaspor
- Besiktas player Mario Gomez is expected to play in game against Bucaspor tomorrow.
- Konyaspor has loaned Yeni Malatyaspor player Emre Selen until end of the season.
- Kayserispor has loaned Malaga player Adnane Tighadouni until end of the season.
- Fenerbahce has announced that its debt is 254 million 482 thousand TL.
- Galatasaray player Yasin Oztekin: I didnt come to the club to play one season and then leave in the next.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Kaan Baysal.
- Inter Milan to Galatasaray that if their dont sell Alex Telles to them their will purchase Fenerbahce player Caner Erkin.
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