What happened in Turkish football today? 18.03.2016

Ivan Bebek wanted Fenerbahce to lose against Braga

Game between Braga and Fenerbahce during Europa League last 16 2nd leg game has been dominated by the decisions of the Croatian referee Ivan Bebek who seems to be decided, or was said before game, to do everything for Fenerbahce not to get to quarter-final.

At yesterday review of the game it was stated that possibly at today's blog we would talk about
performance of Fenerbahce , however following such a game there raises a question if it was wanted for Fenerbahce to be eliminated from Europa League by UEFA or some other bodies. There are lots of talks that there is been operation to the club and to the Turkish football in general as treatment of UEFA to Turkish clubs recently and also terrorism in Turkey in this past months could be affected. Ivan Bebek meanwhile is known to be poor referee not only from experience of Turkish clubs but also by other European countries with it known that many teams has been unhappy with his performances. He is known to make interesting decisions during his games including at his own league. In fact, Croatian media has heavily criticised yesterday's performance of its own referee Ivan Bebek which makes everything clear.

Fenerbahce quite rightly would go to UEFA to start an investigation to figure what is happening with also inclination of game to be fixed. One thing seems to be clear, Ivan Bebek didnt want Fenerbahce to be in quarter-finals of the 2nd tournament in Europe.

Antalyaspor is capable to bring suprise to Besiktas.

Besiktas would play another crucial game during its journey for league title at the game against Antalyaspor tomorrow planning of course 3 points during 26th Super League game, but it wont be as easy as it looks.

Despite of Antalyaspor not performing as good as was expected before start of the season, team is capable to bring surprises with single factor of Samuel Eto'o being at the squad being enough to make clear this point. Therefore, the job of Besiktas defence would be very important for them if their want to get an important win assuming that Besiktas does have some issues at converting high numberof chances into goals. In fact, attacking wise and general game play of the team will be likely to be same and it would play an attacking football with Mario Gomez carrying on finding important chances.

Meanwhile, as Antalyaspor is capable of providing surprise and hence as long as it stays focussed during game it might aim for the draw as long as it keep attention to its defence. Antalyaspor did win Fenerbahce with 4:1 scoreline, so why not try again team tomorrow.

Trabzonspor does win against teams who are below them at table

Despite of poor performance by Trabzonspor this season, it does come out in game against Sivasspor as favourite as during the season it did manage to get points from teams which were around relegation zone, problem comes with the team is from teams above them at table.

Trabzonspor seems to be psychologically and physically at poor performance which affects directly to the results. So it should not be surprising that team only get points from teams whose condition mentally is even worser. The game will not be expected a lot of exciting moments likely as the quality and mental status of both clubsdoes not allow game to be developed in such a manner but it is very important game for Sivasspor, as Trabzonspor is very likely to stay at the league for next season and does get into calmer situation.

Sivasspor to get point/s from a game meanwhile needs to stay focus and try to raise its motivation and with this it can bring result which it needs to stay away from relegation area.

Results
Turkish Super League, 26th week
Kayserispor 0:0 Eskisehirspor
Akhisar Belediyespor 1:1 Rizespor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 26th week
13:30 Osmanlispor - Genclerbirligi
16:00 Trabzonspor - Sivasspor
19:00 Besiktas - Antalyaspor

In other news: 

- TFF has announced timetable for Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game, both games will be played on 20th April: 
18:45 Rizespor-Galatasaray
21:45: Konyaspor- Fenerbahce.
- TFF has changed times of 29th week games:
- Antalyaspor - Galatasaray from 18th April 20:00 to 15th April 20:00
- Genclerbirligi - Trabzonspor from 15th April 20:00 to 18th April 20:00
TFF has changed times of 28th week game:
Galatasaray - Rizespor from 11th April 20:00 to 9th April 19:00
- Besiktas - Bursaspor from 9th April 19:00 to 11th April 20:00

- TFF has announced that games taking place on 18-19-20 March would start with minute of silence in memory of Canakkale V-Day of 1915.

- Fenerbahce player Nani and Bruno Alves and Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma were selected to Portuguese Team for international friendlies

- Besiktas player Mario Gomez and Galatasaray player Lukas Podolski were selected to the German national team squad for friendly games.

- TFF: Even through there is no case of meldonium in Turkey, we ask clubs to take necessary actions with following issue

- Construction of the roof at the Vodafone Arena has been completed.

- Besiktas player Gokhan Tore will not play against Antalyspor due of injury

- Besiktas players Oguzhan Ozyakup and Tolga Zengin decision of to be played against Antalyaspor will be decided prior to game.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: We would start putting grass into field of Vodafone Arena on 19th March. We aim to open stadium at 9th April. We are planning to have CEO election on 15th May.

- ex-Mersin Idman Yurdu player Servet Cetin: The club owns me 1 million 400 TL. Their didnt give me any money, I will fight for my rights.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek: I am expecting for all of the criticism to be said during our budget meeting tomorrow.We need to honest with what was happening financially at club for last 20 years and find solutions to this.

- Galatasaray administrators has announced that players will recieve 40,000 TL bonus for a win against Fenerbahce at Super League game.

- Bursaspor player Serdar Aziz will not play against Kasimpasa due of injury.

- Besiktas players would recieve 150,000 TL bonus each for league title at this season.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Osmanlispor player Badou Ndiaye.

- European and Asian team are interested to transfer Kasimpasa player Eren Derdiyok.