Fenerbahce beats Grasshoppers at 2nd leg of Europa League without any big issues.
Fenerbahce has managed to win Grasshoppers at the Europa League playoff round 2nd leg game with 2:0 scoreline without having any serious problems during the game, as it has won 1st leg with 3:0 scoreline. In fact, it did look like Grasshoppers didnt believe themselves that their will be able to turn game into their advantage.
This was in fact was obvious as soon as game started, as Grasshoppers has started with starting 11 consisting of 2nd squad possibly providing more focus into the Swiss league and from the beginning Fenerbahce has controlled game with passing and controlling ball. In fact, from 1st half performance it did look like both teams wanted to play for a draw as Fenerbahce was playing calm with knowing that it has 3 goal advantage while Grasshoppers couldnt start attacks and did show lack of motivation during the game. It was important in this game in sense of Fernandao and Miroslav Stoch to find goals and raise motivation both personally and also for a team prior to Kayserispor game at the Super League 2nd week game on 28th August.
Grasshoppers didnt provide much of the performance at the game and even through it did find some positions at the 2nd half, none of them provide big threat to Volkan Demirel and to some extend it can be said Grasshoppers mindset didnt believe it could succeed to win strong Turkish side.
With comfortbale aggregate score of 5:0, club would look for draw for Europa League group stage on 26th August and sending message that it is ready for this tournament and provide great performance.
Osmanlispor makes history by beating Mitdylland with 2:0 scoreline.
Osmanslispor has marked the history as it succeeded to qualify to the Europa League group stage with two goals scored by Pinto which brought 2:0 win at the 2nd leg of play-off stage, and 3:0 at the aggregate. Osmanlispor head coach Mustafa Resit Akcay and his players has wrote history by such a historical win.
Osmanlispor has arleady played 6 games during Europa League campaign without even starting group stages without losing any games. The expectations of the team were low, but with high motivation, focus and the help of draw to some extend it has managed to get Europa League group stage. The main here is surely Pinto as he scored at the game which it needed to secure its ticket, and finding goal as early as in 20th minute of the game surely has affected motivation of Danish side as it needed to find 2 goals from that moment and with the focus how Osmanlispor played it was normal for Mitdylland to be worried and not be able to turn the scoreline into their advantage. Osmanlispor surely will be going to the draw with great motivation and experience and try to make its mark at the proper tournament.
Midtylland surely didnt expect that big resistance from Osmanlispor and in return didnt bring great game against team which did everything perfectly and showed to whole Europe that it has set an eye to the Europa League group stage.
Osmanlispor expectation are again not high at the Europa League group stage but it make its mark at the qualifiers and could bring some great results for its supporters and Turkish football lovers in general.
Quality difference has led Basaksehirspor to end its Europa League journey.
After recieving good news both from Fenerbahce and Osmanlispor at the Europa League, Basaksehirspor didnt manage to carry on their success by losing to Ukrainian successful team Shakhar Donetsk win with 2:0 scoreline at the Europa League 2nd leg play-off round game, making aggregate scoreline as 4:1.
Shakhtar Donetsk in similar manner as in 1st leg has shown its superiority over Istanbul side and has controlled game by using its field and experience. Even through goals has come from Attamah own goal and penalty kick, Shakhtar Donetsk did dominate whole game and shown its superiority. As been mentioned earlier, Basaksehirspor main aim from this game was to gain experience and to some extend it has achieved that and with this sense it was lucky to some extend to play with experienced team like Shakhtar Donetsk. Europa League play-off round is tough stage to compete at taking account that you might not be as lucky as Osmanlispor who recieved relatively weaker team, but Basaksehirspor did try its best and should be proud of its success.
As been mentioned several times, Shakhtar Donetsk was coming as stronger team and it did show its superiority our two games and has got to group stage in fair manner.
Basaksehirspor would now focus into Super League where it would aim to get again to the European contingency for next season and it started very good by winning league contenders Fenerbahce.
Results
UEFA Europa League, play-off round, 2nd leg:
Grasshoppers 0:2 Fenerbahce (agg:0:5)
Osmanlispor 2:0 Mitdylland (agg: 3:0)
Shakhtar Donetsk 2;0 Basaksehirspor (agg: 4:1)
Schedule
Turkish Super League, 2nd week:
21:45 Konyaspor-Besiktas
21:45 Alanyaspor - Antalyaspor
In other news:
- Besiktas has been drawn to Group B at the Champions League where it will compete with Benfica, Napoli, Dinamo Kiev
- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines and bans following Super League 1st week games:
- Adanaspor and Bursaspor has recieved warning and blockage of area at stadium from fans due of behaivour of fans.
- Bursaspor has recieved 22,500 TL fine for events at the field.
- Besiktas has recieved 1#JoseMoraishase for behaviour of fans and blockage of stadium from fans.s
- Antalyaspor head coach Jose Morais has recieved 13,000 TL fine and 1-game ban for anti-sportmanship behaviour.
- Fenerbahce has recieved 130,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans
- Basaksehirspor player Emre Belozoglu and Fenerbahce player Mehmet Topal has recieved 2-game ban due of breaking rules during game
- Besiktas has loaned Manchester City player Samir Nasri for 1 year.
- Besiktas has loaned for 1 year Porto player Vincent Aboubakar with 3 million euro fee and 3.5 million euro salary.
- SportingLisbon has transferred Trabzonspor player Douglas for 3 years with 1.5 million euro transfer fee.
- Besiktas has loaned Inter Milan player Caner Erkin for 1 year.
- Bugsasspor has loaned Galatasaray player Ismail Cepe for 1 year.
- Bursaspor: We are as club has won league title of 2010 without any dirt. However, some organisations still question our title.Some people without any documents and proof try to downgrade our success which we done in 2010.
- Galatasaray: We are saddened to see to blame Galatasaray due of so many ex-club players to be involved at FETO.We call everyone to treat this in more calmer manner. We are as club also to cleaning up of members who involved with FETO.
- Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink: We still working to find transfers at midfielders. We can alternatives for Diarra.Luis Cavanda and Serdar Aziz has just recovered from injury their getting into level we want.
- Galatasaray player Eren Derdiyok: Coach can start with whoever he wants. I dont mind. I would just give my best when I play.
- Gaziantepsor player Charles Itanje has attended his first training session with his new team.
- AkhisarBelediyespor players Serdar Kesimal, Bora Kork and Abdoul Sissoko will not play against Galatasaray during Super League 2nd week.
- Grasshoppers supporters has burned Fenerbahce flag during Europa League play-off round 2nd leg game.Both fans sometiems had tensions risen
- Galatasaray plans to loan Everton player Oumar Niasse for 1 year.
- Arsenal are close to transfer Bayer Leverkusen player Omer Toprak for 14 million pounds.
- Konyaspor spokesman Ahmet Baydar: We had signed 1 year contract with our ex-player Meha. We had changed mind for transfer of ex-Trabzonspor player Ozer Hurmaci. We close to transfer Aarhus player Jens Johnson.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Liverpool player Mamadou Sakho.
- Sevilla has offered 12 million euro for Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup but team has declined it.
- Fenerbahce still didnt recieve transfer money from Valencia for Luis Nani.
- Trabzonspor spokesman Asim Orem: Compare to last year, the team is playing much better. We didnt give best at 1st game but we will improve. We also waiting for win against Gaziantepspor. Our game style show that we will win it.
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