What happened in Turkish football today? 29.09.2016

Fenerbahce has become leaders at the death group after 2 weeks.

Fenerbahce has won very important game at the Europa League Group A game against one of the favourites at the group ,Feyenoord with a quality goal scored by Emmanuel Emenike which has helped team to raise to top spot at this death group.

Fenerbahce has provided most organised game since head coach Dick Advocaat has joined the team without making any big mistakes especially at the defence front. The team didnt allow for Feyenoord to create any chances and has controlled ball for most of the time and even through its attacks could be criticised not to be very successful its still was looking for this chances at the front. One of the improvements which was seen also was for Fenerbahce to stay focussed to the game at the last 10 minutes, problem which has been existed for long time for Turkish clubs at the European games. Jeremain Lens has once again become one of the key players of the league showing his capability of keeping ball at his own control with availability to pass  his opponenets with an ease. In fact, his chance of scoring at the 2nd half could become one of the memorable goals if he didnt have problem at the last touch as he shot with an umcomfortable side of the leg.

Feyenoord meanwhile has performed much below performance of its expectations and has raised questions how it did manage to win every official game so far this season, including 1st week game at the group against Manchester United. I think it will be smart to underline that Feyenoord was not at its best, but Fenerbahce will be glad it wasnt.

Fenerbahce has managed to get an important win and become leaders at the death group of the Europa League as it would be playing against Manchester United at upcoming two games at the group. With 1 point advantage over its main rivals one point even from this two games could be crucial for them.

Osmanlispor has lost its first game at the Europa League this season.

Osmanlispor has lost its first game to the Swiss club Zurich at the Europa League at is first season at the tournament, in the game where it was expected actually to get a confident win.

This loss could be given to the factor that it was first game at the away game in the tournament proper and hence this factor could have an negative impact to the focus and concentration of the team including the excitement. In fact, Osmanlispor did manage to turn game into 1:1 score by the goal of the Maher at the 73th minute which provided some chance to provide a great comeback towards last minutes but it had conceded again after 7 minutes of the game by Zurich player Cavucevic. This was first loss by Osmanlispor head coach Mustafa Resit Akcay after 17 games which has obtained from other teams. The team has acted without much concentration and has lost 3 points to the Zurich.

Zurich meanwhile has used its home advantage in very effective manner and has provided very attacking football by winning very important game against very in-form Osmanlispor. Even through Osmanlispor is at the Europa League for first time, Zurich was coming out as outsiders however by effective game it has won the game with 2:1 scoreline.

Osmanlispor should stay focus meanwhile since it has real good chance to get to the next stage at the tournament and should use its home advantage at the 3rd week against Villareal in Ankara.

Konyaspor doesnt provide football at the level of Europa League. 

Konyaspor carries on poor start of the Europa League after losing 2 games back-to-back this time to the Belgian side Gent. This result does show that Konyaspor is not at the same strength as it was at the past season and is not in level needed for this tournament.

As usual, this result has been given at the experience of the side which showed that most of the players are unable to compete at this level of the football and only positive matter which team is obtaining from this season competition is an experience. Taking account that it has provided defensive football once again which has cost them many games arleady in this season does prove that team would have big issues at the season and it does need to find solutions to those issues as soon as it can. It does look that the team will focus at the tournament as chance to get experience.

Belgian side Gent didnt have much issues at the game and has controlled whole game without recieving too much pressure from Konyaspor and has obtained unfortunately an easy win.

Konyaspor will play very tough game against Braga and surely this performance will not provide much hope for that game.

Results:
UEFA Europa League, Group A, 2nd week:
Fenerbahce 1:0 Feyenoord
Manchester United 1:0 Zorya

UEFA Europa League, Group H, 2nd week:
Gent 2:0 Konyaspor
Shakhtar Donetsk 2:0 Braga

UEFA Europa League, Group L, 2nd week:
Zurich 2:1 Osmanlispor
Steaua Bucharest 1:1 Villareal

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 6th week:
20:00 Akhisar Belediyespor - Genclerbirligi

In other news: 

- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines and bans, which are:
- Alanyaspor, Gaziantepspor and Trabzonspor has recieved 9,000 TL fine from events at the field.
- Besiktas has recieved 15,000 TL fine for behaviour of the fans.
- Karabukspor player Kerim Zengin has recieved 3 game ban and 13,000 TL fine for antisportmanship behaviour
- Trabzonspor head coach Ersun Yanal has recieved 2 game ban and 26,000 TL fine for foul language towards referee 
- Trabzonspor administrator Gorkem Erkal has recieved 1 game ban and 13,000 TL fine for foul language towards referee
- Trabzonspor administrator Ozer Bayraktar has recieved 15 days of deprivation of rights for lacking of accredition card

- Antalyaspor has recieved 2 transfer season ban for terminating contract one-sided with Oktay Deribalta.

- CAS would call TFF, Fenerbahce and UEFA on November regarding of match fixing case, requested by Trabzonspor.

- Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma has been nominated to best goal of the week and best player by UEFA following Champions League 2nd week games.

- Galatasaray player Luis Cavanda expects to start at starting 11 against Antalyaspor during Super League 6th week game on 2nd October .

- Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink plans to have full squad when he will play against Fenerbahce at the Super League 12th week.

- Galatasaray administration still didnt pay salariers to players and technical staff for September. This case will be discussed on 12/10

- Bursaspor 2nd CEO Ali Ademoglu: We are not currently interested with Fenerbahce player Jose Fernandao.Our scouts are working around Europe

- TurkishNationalTeam player Yunus Malli: We need to get lessons after Euro 2016. Arda Turan will be called to team soon.I am really happy to be playing in Germany. My aim is to be in Champions League level team.

- Antalyaspor CEO Ali Safak Ozturk: Our player Samuel Eto'o has made it clear that he was sorry for his comments in Instagram and was sorry.Hence he was forgiven. He would become better player.

- Galatasaray player Wesley Sneijder: We were coming out to win Besiktas. At half-time we were aware that we didnt win game.But we had played poorly and draw as fair result with how game was played.But we had played poorly and draw as fair result with how game was played.We need to learn lesson from this. But as a team we improve each week. We need to control ball more.For me assists are same importance as scoring goals. I want to get another league title here.

- Fortuna Dusseldorf head coach Freidheim Funkel: Kaan Ayhan is great player, we glad we got him from Schalke 04.He would become better player

- Beijing Guoan player Burak Yilmaz has arrived to Istanbul today.

- InterMilan are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Sinan Gumus.

What happened in Turkish football today? 28.09.2016

Besiktas has started well but slowed down towards end against Dinamo Kiev.

Besiktas has obtained 2nd draw with same 1:1 scoreline at the Group B 2nd week game against Ukrainian champions Dinamo Kiev where the game has been played really in two different halves with Besiktas dominating at the 1st half and Dinamo Kiev at the 2nd half.

In fact, the way Dinamo Kiev has started the game and played whole 1st half it did look like that Besiktas will not have much trouble at winning the game as long as it does achieve finding the goal which it did with Ricardo Quaresma at the 29th minute. This free kick goal was also went into history as the first goal by Besiktas at the European tournaments at their new stadium Vodafone Arena. After the goal Besiktas has build its performance with carrying on providing an attacking football and creating chances with players such as Talisca, who in fact carried on finding good chances at the 2nd half. But Dinamo Kiev has shown great response after the break and has provided much attacking football which led Besiktas playing more defensive football with occasionally finding chances. The goal by Tsygankov has surely provided shock effect to the team at the 65th minute and Besiktas had trouble to response to that. But still Besiktas found some attacks but its performance wasnt same as in 1st half.

Dinamo Kiev has provided game of two halves with very poor performance during 1st half but with Champions League response where team need to do show reaction while losing it has improved game and has found a point which could be very crucial for them in upcoming weeks and hence making this group very open for 2nd place between 3 teams.

Besiktas is currently at the 2nd place with 2 points while Napoli has 100% record so far and Benfica and Dinamo Kiev with 1 point, so Besiktas is in good condition but it is certainly needs two wins more at least to qualify to knockout stages.

Fenerbahce needs to stay focussed against Feyenoord.

Fenerbahce will be playing a very tough game against Feyenoord as it could become one of the key games of the Europa League  2nd week games. As it is known, Dutch team is coming without losing any games and has upper hand at the group hence is favourite at the game.

In the group which everyone sees it as in the level of the Champions League, Feyenoord has got an important win against Manchester United at the 1st week while Fenerbahce has drawn against Zorya with 1:1 scoreline. Assuming that English side also win tomorrow against Zorya, loss to Fenerbahce could bring them into very difficult condition. If Fenerbahce does aim to get out of the group stage it must win tomorrow. But as stated this will not be an easy task at all as Feyenoord is dominating with its football in domestic and Europa League and Fenerbahce does need to play with its best football or even better to get a win at the home ground. Meanwhile, game will recieve specific interesting as this is first time Dirk Kuyt will play against his former club, and it would be special for him taking account game is in Istanbul.

Fenerbahce as stated needs to play its best and stay focus whole time as Feyenoord will not forgive them and will be hungry for goals. If it achieves that it can make surprise result.

Osmanlispor are favourites to win Zurich.

Osmanlispor meanwhile would aim to carry on its undefeated record of this season at the Europa League where including qualifiers it has 6 games and drawn only 1 so far. It can achieve that as it would be playing against Swiss team Zurich, the team which doesnt expect to provide much issue to Osmanlispor.

Osmanlispor head coach Mustafa Resit Akcay keep saying that he is priority is Super League but great performance of his team at the Europa League is no exception. Their performance even recieved coverage from UEFA website and Zurich quite rightly might feel themselves to be underdogs and would likely to defend against them. If that would be case it can even make Osmanlispor case easier tomorrow. It is known that apart of small successes ocassionaly, Swiss clubs are pretty at poor form now and this factor does also play as plus sign to Osmanlispor who are in great form. Its important as always in European games for Osmanlispor to stay focus and play its own games and it wont have much issues tomorrow.

Osmanlispor does come out as favourite to a game, a great achievement meanwhile for a team which competes at the tournament first time in its history.

Results
UEFA Champions League, Group B, 2nd week:
Besiktas 1:1 Dinamo Kiev
Napoli 4:2 Benfica

Schedule
UEFA Europa League, Group A, 2nd week:
22:05 Fenerbahce-Feyenoord
22:05 Manchester United-Zorya

UEFA Europa League, Group H, 2nd week:
20:00 Gent-Konyaspor
20:00 Shakhtar Donetsk - Braga

UEFA Europa League, Group L, 2nd week:
20:00 Zurich-Osmanlispor
20:00 Steaua Bucharest - Villareal

In other news:

- Galatasaray administrator Sinan Ergun: The team which has won Turkish Cup last year starts at 3rd round next season. Its need to be sorted.

- Besiktas: Following yesterday's training session our player Gokhan Gonul has become injured. His recovery has begun.

- Sergi Tekstil has became sponsor for away game of Bursaspor to the Super League 6th week game against Gaziantespor.

- Antalyaspor head coach Jose Morais: I believe we can get great positive results from Galatasaray game. Its important game for us.SamuelEtoo absence will not affect us. We have lost games with him and won without him.

- Trabzonspor are having talks with Turkish companies for Akyazi stadium sponsorship deals.

- Alanyaspor football representative Metin Fahri Ozcelik:Referee could given red card to Adanaspor player Viera,later penalty during 1st half

- Bursaspor players Serdar Kurtulus and Vieux Sane has attended seperate training program.

- Besiktas player Gokhan Inler: Dinamo Kiev have lost 1st game and hence their would give their best. But we would focus to ourselves.

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat plans to use Jeremain Lens as key player at the Europa League 2nd week game against Feyenoord.

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat: I wasnt planning to end my contract with Dutch National Team.But I am 69 years old, this could be my last chance to get league title with Fenerbahce.

- Galatasaray plans to sell its player Aurelian Chedjou at the end of the season.

- Galatasaray player Lukas Podolski is expected to play against Antalyaspor during Super League 6th week game.

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat told to Robin van Persie that he has 15 days to improve his performance.

- Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim didnt want to transfer Manchester City player Yaya Toure stating that their have Ozan Tufan.

- Galatasaray player Bruma is very happy at the club and wants to stay. Meanwhile, club plans to offer better contract with raise of salary

What happened in Turkish football today? 27.09.2016

Besiktas is coming as strong favourite against Dinamo Kiev

Besiktas is going to restart its Champions League campaign against Ukrainian successful team Dinamo Kiev at the 2nd week game of Group B  where Besiktas is coming as favourite comparing to the recent form of the two teams.

As it is known, Besiktas is carrying on this season at high note starting Super League with 3 wins and 2 draws, including coming back against Galatasaray while losing with 2:0 scoreline during 5th week derby game. The team is also at the high mood after drawing with Benfica during 1st week of the Champions League by incredible goal scored by Talisca in Portugal at the last minute. Besiktas has all reasons to look at this game at high note as Dinamo Kiev, who was pretty successful at the previous season in Ukrainian league, is showing good performance by losing games and conceding goals fact which would be positive to Besiktas who tend to score high number of goals at its recent performances. Therefore, the team which is in at the form is coming as strong favourites and it is known that Dinamo Kiev are aware of that and worried about the game.

It needs to be stated also that Besiktas will play game at the home which is certainly an extra motivation and would make positive impact to rest campaign if it manages to win game.

Jan Olde Riekerink doesnt deserve criticism since he brought team into legs after next season.

Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Rikerink seems to be unfairly criticised of his coaching decisions at the 2nd half of the Super League 5th week game against Besiktas where it has drawn while winning 2:0 but Levent Nazifoglu stated its unfair to criticise him with his latest performances.

Jan Olde Riekerink needs to be remembered that he has come head coach as temporary one and in very miserable time and despite of all that he has managed to win Turkish Cup and Super Cup winning both Fenerbahce and Besiktas. Galatasaray supporters should see him as saviour. And yes some of his decisions and lack to provide fast decision against Besiktas were visible but he still provided great performance at this period. In fact, its hard to criticise him to decide providing defence football against team which is showing very active football and has introduced to the field Talisca at the start of 2nd half. As Nazifoglu stated Riekerink should be praised and not criticised.

Remembering that he came as youth coach and didnt even want to be head coach it is very impressive of his performance at the main squad and he would be continuing this form very likely in upcoming weeks.

Bursaspor is currently 2nd at the league.

Bursaspor has provided best start of the league history, even better than when it became champions, with obtaining 12 points and standing at the 2nd place with 1 point behind leaders Basaksehirspor.

Bursaspor has obtained so far 4 wins and 1 loss with head coach Hamza Hamzaoglu and does show in fact very impressive football with scoring 7 goals and providing an organised football. Hamza Hamzaoglu has always had potential to provide top football with Bursaspor as soon as he came and kinda shows that it was not correct decision to sack him from Galatasaray. Its not that Galatasaray is doing worser than him but he could provide very similar results with club if he stayed right now and has lots of areas to improve on. During this period Bursaspor has also managed to win Fenerbahce which was struggling to get into its feet with poor start of the season.

Bursaspor head coach Hamza Hamzaoglu with those impressive start would surely aim for top 5  at the end of the season right now and even through league seems to be divided arleady in two halves the top half does look to be excited at early stages of season.

Schedule
UEFA Champions League, Group B, 2nd week
21:45 Besiktas - Dinamo Kiev
21:45 Napoli-Benfica

In other news:

- Gaziantepspor has recieved 9,000 TL for antispormanship behaviour by PFDK as a team.

- Turkish Football Federation has announced referrals to Professional Football Disciplinary Committee:
- Trabzonspor Gaziantepspor, Alanyaspor has been referred for 6 players recieving yellow card during the game.
- Trabzonspor head coach Ersun Yanal has been referred for foul language, administrator Gorkem Ekal for anti-sportmanship behaviour and administrator Ozer Bayraktar for not following guidelines.
- Besiktas has been referred for events at the field.
- Karabukspor player Kerim Zengin has been referred to for breaking rules.

- UEFA has announced that referee of the World Cup qualifier between Turkey and Ukraine will be German referee Manuel Grafe on 6/10

- UEFA has announced that referee of the World Cup qualifier between Iceland and Turkey will be English referee Mark Clattenburg on 9/10

- Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu: As a team we were sad to get draw from Besiktas. When we returned bus was quiet.This team doesnt deserve this criticism. We had dominated against Besiktas. We came long way.We didnt expect such good performance from Tolga Cigerci and Eren Derdiyok. Their dominate.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek would also walk with team supporters to Fenerbahce away game when it comes.

- Fenerbahce has made sponsorship deal with Vestel. According to deal Vestel would create television and phones with FB logo.

- Bursaspor player Tomas Sivok: My contract ends at the end of this season. We will talk about it, it still early.

- Rubin Kazan player Gokdeniz Karadeniz would share half of his salary for construction of the mosque in Kazan.Namelyat least 60 million ruble

- Antalyaspor are not expected to forgive club player Samuel Eto'o prior to Super League 6th week game against Galatasaray.

- Barcelona player Arda Turan is expected to be called to Turkish National Team for World Cup Qualifiers against Ukraine and Iceland.

- Trabzonspor administrator Onder Bulbiloglu: We had diveded our player budget to half according to FFP to 20 million euro.We made new projects and still many projects in hand. There is no issue with salaries to players

- Konyaspor CEO Ahmet San: We end game at Europa League Thursday night and play Super League early Sunday morning. We had complained about it. But those complaints were not taken seriously. Turkish football loses like that.We had some injuries before Gent game but I believe we can get point/s from that game.

- Osmanlispor head coach Mustafa Resit Akcay: For getting such success is due of 30 year experience and strength of squad.

- Galatasaray: We dont have much issue with Kolbeinn Sighortson and Serdar Aziz injuries. Their showing fast recovery. Nigel de Jong case is improving

- Besiktas plans to stop Dinamo Kiev player Andriy Yarmolenko attacks on Champions League 2nd week game.

- Galatasaray wants to put 40 million euro release clause to the extended contract of Bruma but his manager company is against it.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Sen is currently viewing each day 2-hour video of players like Robben and Ribery to improve his skills.

- Fenerbahce plans to purchase Sunderland player Jeremain Lens latest next summer. He is loaned to Fenerbahce now.

- Besiktas plans to bring back its player Gokhan Tore from West Ham United, where he loaned to, in midseason transfer window.

What happened in Turkish football today? 26.09.2016

Fenerbahce needs to carry on winning games and improve its attacks.

With the help of Basaksehirspor draw against Osmanlispor and also Besiktas and Galatasaray drawing each other and also winning back-to-back two games, Fenerbahce has managed to reduce difference between leaders to 6 points and 4 points with its main rivals after 5th week of the Super League.

Even through Fenerbahce still pays some price for bad start for this season at the Super League, by
winning two games back to back, Kasimpasa and Gaziantepspor, it got back into the league title race.
Saying that, compare to Kasimpasa game, Fenerbahce had big trouble at converting its high number of attacks at 1st half to the goals and hence has led them to get into big stressful position and provide hope for its opponent Gaziantepspor which led them find a goal on 80th minute. The fact also that
Fenerbahce supporters are showing lack at coming to the stadium at home game also provides negative aspects to the team but as team is improving there is expectation that those fans would start coming to a team slowly. Saying that it does need strong support for this week game against Feyenoord at the Europa League 2nd week game on 29th September.

Fenerbahce is having in fact very tough week with playing against Feyenoord at the Europa League 2nd week game and also against Osmanlispor at the Super League 6th week. Going through this week without big damage would be great motivation boost for national team break.

Galatasaray player Hamit Altintop informed the club that he is unhappy at team.

It became clear that Galatasaray player Hamit Altintop has told to the team's technical staff that he wants to leave team and is unhappy to stay here. Taking account that in summer he keep telling he wants to stay, this is a big u-turn.

As remembered, Hamit Altintop has told to team, who was willing to sell him, that he would stay and would only recieve salary for games he plays. Quite possibly he provided that options hoping that he would be able to recieve some game time but this has not been much obtained from his performance this season. Another factor could be self-realisation that staying at the club is not best option and even if his career is coming slowly to the end, he still wants to get game time and hence considers to move to the team which would be able to provide that to him. It is likely that he would start considering new teams and move on January which team itself would be willing to sell him.

Hamit Altintop even through has been more like trouble for team in last couple years has also provided very effective time at the team and it is important to leave team with keeping those memories inside supporters.

Trabzonspor needs points for confidence and morale.

With winning the game against Konyaspor and last minute goal by Yusuf Erdogan, has provided big motivation for a team and it has started to look for this result as new beginning for them after very poor start to the season.

It needs also to remembered, that even if from different platform or level, Turkish Cup 2nd round 6:0 Serhat Ardahanspor win has provided big role at the motivation and confidence after very bad start at the Super League. It does need to be stated that Trabzonspor will still have trouble season and does provide an image that it will not get into top 5 spot, with looking how some clubs are playing. But is important for a team for next season, to get at least top half spot at the end of the season and get more wins than losses, including against big teams who would end season above them. This factor would at least provide motivation to the team.

It is certain as in similar manner as to Fenerbahce, it needs to carry on winning games as it would keep them motivated or even when it doesnt achieve that to provide high level football at games.

Results
Turkish Super League, 5th week: 
Adanaspor 3:2 Alanyaspor

In other news:

- UEFA has announced referee of the Champions League 2nd week game between Besiktas and Dinamo Kiev as German referee Felix Zwayer

- UEFA has announced referee of the Europa League 2nd week game between Gent and Konyaspor as Hungarian referee Istvan Vad

- UEFA has announced referee of the Europa League 2nd week game between Zurich and Osmanlispor as Russian referee Alexei Eskov

- UEFA has announced referee of the Europa League 2nd week game between Fenerbahce and Feyenoord as Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson

- UEFA has appointed Turkish observer Oguz Sarvan to observe Champions League 2nd week game between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid

- Fenerbahce player Simon Kjaer has been called to Danish National Team for World Cup 2018 qualifiers against Poland and Montenegro.

- Galatasaray player Kolbeinn Sighortson and Serdar Aziz expected to start training after national team break.

- Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink has criticised for performance of the Aurelian Chedjou at the Super League game against Besiktas

- Besiktas has announced that its players Oguzhan Ozyakup has become injured and his recovery has begun.

- Number of fans showed protest to the Gaziantepspor head coach Ismail Kartal after his statement that he will always be Fenerbahce fan

- Fenerbahce has made sponsorship deal with Vestel, which includes producing exclusive television with club logo.

- Besiktas spokesman Metin Albayrak: Our aim is to become champions each year and become top 10 club in Europe. For that we need profit.Our stadium Vodafone Arena is great source of profit.It is important to keep in positive connection with administrators. Lifting supporters derby ban is good

- Deportivo La Coruna player Emre Colak: Football wise Spain is more disciplined to football and supporters focus on game. I wish I came before

- Fenerbahce has announced that it had send request to leave away fans derby ban to provincial city committe on 5th August.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek has told to his club administrator to carry on and improve relations with Besiktas.

- Trabzonspor has recieved 8,000,000 TL fine from FIFA for not paying salary to N'doye and Douglas.

- Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink has told to Nigel de Jong that he need to lose weight and needs to be more fast.

- Besiktas administrators are unhappy with some decisions made by head coach Senol Gunes during Super League 5th week game against Galatasaray, including not playing Adriano at the game.

- Manchester United and Arsenal are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Bruma.

- It became clear that damage at the Vodafone Arena from Galatasaray fans is 6,000 TL. Besiktas would ask compensation payment from them.

What happened in Turkish football today? 25.09.2016

Fenerbahce has managed to win back-to-back even through it needs to improve its attacking play.

Fenerbahce carries on showing improvement with its performance this time winning against Gaziantepspor during Super League 5th week game even through it does seem that it  does need to improve with converting chances and finding more goals.

Fenerbahce has started game in a very great manner showing domination of the game and it has created many good chances and it should have found more than one goal after the end of the first half. The half has been mainly dominated with performances of Jeremain Lens and Volkan Sen with providing great performance at the midfield and providing chances to its attackers with their passes. In fact, Volkan Sen has been one of the most active players during this game and also following general performance after 5th week of the Super League. Despite of that, Volkan Sen didnt manage to score any single goals which possibly had provided negative impact to the player as he tries to find goals at all situation and is under pressure he provided to himself. Meamwhile, Gaziantepspor with having chance with scoreline of 1:0 had provided more attacking football in 2nd half and has found goal at the 80th minute. In fact, Fenerbahce almost lost an important 2 points if crucial goal by Jose de Souza didnt come at the end of game.

Gaziantepspor didnt look to be prepared for the game against Fenerbahce from the start of the game and it only had provided good 2nd half performance mainly due of Fenerbahce not able to find number of goals in start of the game or otherwise the game could have ended without 2nd half starting.

Fenerbahce has starting winning series at the Super League after winning Kasimpasa last week. Fenerbahce is coming out with high motivation to the Europa League 2nd week game very tough game against Feyenoord on 29th September.

Besiktas has lacked organisation against Galatasaray.

Besiktas has managed to get a draw at its home ground against Galatasaray despite of not starting game very well and has provided very poor performance during 1st half as it was underlined by the head coach Senol Gunes after game.

Even through it is great achievement to come back after losing game with 2:0 scoreline and providing full focus to the end of the game, in all fairness it needs to be noted that there was also mistakes by the Galatasaray as by going too much into defence. It was observed in fact that most of the game Besiktas was lacking any clear organisation find goal positions by the luck and was affected pretty negatively after conceding an early goal by Eren Derdiyok which meanwhile has happened due of lack of concentration by the defence. Besiktas were concentrated to the game and were hungry for a win but many of its movements were done in rush manner and this performance didnt let them to provide its best form. Therefore, it could been said that Besiktas did provide great fight and focus to the game but it wasnt their best game in the sense of the organisation.

Besiktas does need to be more focussed and organised against Dinamo Kiev on 28th September as this rush game could only lead damage to them in such crucial game at the 2nd week of Champions League.

Galatasaray should have played same as it did in 1st half.

Galatasaray meanwhile has provided very attacking football at the 1st half providing very controlled game and was wanting to score a goals however at the 2nd half due of psychological factor of winning against strong team in their ground it became showing defence focussed game.

This decision has cost them a win against Besiktas and could even lead them to lose game as Besiktas has carried on attacking after finding 2nd goal even through their also did lose great chance by Jose. It is possible that if Galatasaray has carried on playing in same manner as did in 1st half their would win game. In fact, Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes did state that if game continued like 1st, final score could be even bigger with the margin. Apart of getting possitive matter from 1st half it should also take negatives from 2nd half and try to realise what was done wrong at the game. Apart of Bruma, whole team seems to be glad of getting 1 point from Besiktas but it should not in my view as it lost game while winning 2:0 as game was going into last 20 minutes which means that something was done especially between 73rd and 78th minute of the game. It should figure it out so it wont repeat again.

Both Besiktas and Galatasaray are 2 points behind leaders Basaksehirspor and carry on its non-losing start of the league. This scoreline didnt do damage to either team but in same time it has stopped them having advantage over each other.

Results
Turkish Super League, 5th week: 
Kayserispor 2:1 Rizespor
Bursaspor 1:0 Kasimpasa
Fenerbahce 2:1 Gaziantepspor
Genclerbirligi 2:0 Karabukspor

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 5th week:
20:00 Adanaspor - Alanyaspor

In other news: 

- Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir has been appointed by UEFA to referee Champions League 2nd week game between Leicester City and Porto.

- Three terrorist has been arrested who were planning to make terror attack to Kasimpasa Recep Tayyip Erdogan Stadium prior to Super League 4th week game between Kasimpasa and Fenerbahce on 19th September.

- Galatasaray has released thank you message to Besiktas administrators for organisation of Super League 5th week game between them.

- Galatasaray player Lukas Podolski has attented today's training session after recovering from injury.

- Besiktas player Gokhan Gonul has become injured during Super League 5th week game against Galatasaray.

- Juventus are interested to transfer Twente player Enes Unal.

- Galatasaray player Lucas Podolski: I have contract with a team until 2018. I have no intentions to leave the team in January.

What happened in Turkish football today? 24.09.2016

The game has been played with two different halves between Besiktas and Galatasaray.

Super League 5th week game between Besiktas and Galatasaray has been played as classical derby game where Galatasaray has dominated game at 1st half while 2nd half has changed roles as Besiktas has controlled much more. With both teams giving their all to the game it has ended with 2:2 draw.

The following game should be analysed with two halves taken seperately with Galatasaray dominating 1st half much better and showing more focus. The half has changed its character especially when Galatasaray player Eren Derdiyok has scored goal at the 8th minute following big mistake by Caner Erkin as the ball has hit post and bounced back to Derdiyok which helped him to find his goal. The game has been seen that Besiktas had trouble at starting to controlling game and has without much organisation and was hoping to find attacks throw counterattacks in fact this game has been played by them until finding goal by Marcelo at 73rd minute. It does need to be also observed that Galatasaray started smartly wasting time in 1st half at each stopping time which however could be seen as mistake as game ended with draw. Despite of that, Galatasaray has been seen to be more organised at first 45 minutes.

Besiktas has started 2nd half with a substitute of Talisca and Vincent Aboubakar which led them to play much more attacking football and with the factor that Galatasaray has provided more defence which led to home team create much more chances and seem to be more organised. It did look Galatasaray possibly psychologically became scared of Besiktas and has been pushed to the back. It was however observed that Fernando Muslera was not prepared for two goals and has conceded them without making any actions. This could be done due of Muslera issues at the close range shots even through he did great saves during the game. Besiktas meanwhile at the 2nd half has shown great character which brought them league title last season and has helped them to start league in good well.

At the end of the day both teams carry on league without losing games in this season so far and with how game has been played both teams should be satisfied with 1 point as it could be crucial for league title race towards end of the season.

Yusuf Erdogan goal could be most important goal scored by Trabzonspor during whole season.

Trabzonspor has clinched a victory from last seconds free-kick goal by Yusuf Erdogan and hence providing a very important victory for them against Konyaspor at the game where it had dominated the game. It does need to be stated that it well-worth point for them.

Stating that it still has lots of areas to improve at but it is certain that it gave its all for this game. Compare to previous league games, Trabzonspor has provided an attacking football and has created number of the chances however it had trouble at converting them. Following, Turkish Cup 2nd round win against Serhat Ardahanspor the following blog previous entries has emphasised that this win would bring positive impact to a team and it does seem that it did so as the game progressed. Even through as been mentioned it still need to improve at tactical at the front the fact that it was playing at the half of Konyaspor, being one of the tough opponents at the Super League is by itself a very positive thing by winning them and the fact that players and head coach Ersun Yanal were seen to be emotional during the game surely has affected positevely to the game.

Konyaspor meanwhile seems to mainly focus into the defensive play possibly being scared of their opponents and seems to be fine with a draw, an image which is very far away from last season and as been mentioned earlier would affect negatively to the Europa League and this game will not be enough for them against Belgian side Gent. It needs to play more brave football.

With the fact that Basaksehirspor has drawn earlier at the day, Trabzonspor has reduced its point difference by 7 points from leaders and has still chance to get into closer to the top as it aims to have good season as been mentioned prior to season. This win could be new start to for them.

Fenerbahce will likely be closer to the style of play with Dick Advocaat is aiming at in game against Gaziantepspor.

Fenerbahce as a team would play against Gaziantepspor during Super League 5th week game tomorrow, and it is aware that obtaining win against could be even more crucial compare to last week win against Kasimpasa as it would mean that it was start winning streak and do catch-up with league leaders.

Fenerbahce has provided much closer game in the game against Kasimpasa and has certainly has made head coach Dick Advocaat to possibly to look at the future game at more optimistic manner for first time but it is important to carry this on this week. Taking account that for 6 days team didnt play any games it has allowed them to train tactically and aim to improve and with Fenerbahce being at the better mood, and with this being derby week, it would surely aim to provide much closer football which is seeking for. Fenerbahce players Moussa Sow and Emmanuel Emenike are also becoming very good partners, as their were few years ago which could become crucial factor for them and team in general. Dick Advocaat meanwhile does look to finally set a perfect starting 11 squad he had at the mind as it is reported that team would start with same players as against Kasimpasa in last week.

This game is also crucial as it could provide motivation prior to very difficult Europa League 2nd week game against Feyenoord on 29th September where it would obviously aim for a win and provide surprising result which could straight away make them also leaders in such a tough opponent.

Results
Turkish Super League, 5th week:
Basaksehirspor 2:2 Osmanlispor
Trabzonspor 1:0 Konyaspor
Besiktas 2:2 Galatasaray

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 5th week:
13:30 Kayserispor - Rizespor
16:00 Bursaspor - Kasimpasa
19:00 Fenerbahce - Gaziantepspor
19:00 Genclerbirligi - Karabukspor

In other news:

- TFF: Our federation has ended connections with 105 people which includes referee, assistant referees and observers.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman will be flying to Germany to discuss about getting 50% share of Mario Gomez transfer to Wolfsburg for 7 million.

- Karabukspor spokesman and vice-CEO Hakan Yilmaz has resigned from his post due of having other businesses outside club.

- Fenerbahce player Josef de Souza: We need to win against Gaziantepspor and preferably score 1st to make game calmer for us.Usually my aim is to pass ball but this season I will try to shoot more and find goals.

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat has attended to Super League 5th week game between Basaksehirspor and Osmanlispor.

- Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie has attended training session after recovering from injury.

- Celtic are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Hasan Ali Kaldirim.

What happened in Turkish football today? 23.09.2016

Besiktas main advantage at the derby is that it will be playing at home.

First derby game at this season of the Super League between Besiktas and Galatasaray is promising to be very intense game with both teams coming to the game with great form. Besiktas does have slight advantage at playing at the home but with Galatasaray fans allowed to come this advantage becomes less more important.

Both teams are coming to the game with same form while obtaining 10 points from first 4 weeks and providing pretty impressive performance even through still not best football at their capacity for both of them. Besiktas does have also advantage competing at the Champions League which could be seen as extra games but it does provide extra motivation especially when things goes well at the European prestigious tournament. Taking account that it has drawn with its biggest opponent at the group stage, Benfica, with 1:1 scoreline and also taking account that it will be its 2nd week game against Dinamo Kiev on 28th September provides extra motivation to them. The players are also showing great performance with specific focus given to the Cenk Tosun and Talisca who are showing very attacking football and are starting scoring goals. Those players could become key of the game in similar manner as goalkeepers, as Fernando Muslera does tend show better performance compare to the Tolga Zengin lately.

Besiktas does have strength and would expect to carry on its impressive performance at Vodafone Arena where it manages to win games and score no less than 3 goals each game. With right set of mind Besiktas can provide dissapointment to Galatasaray.

Galatasaray players are showing great performance lately and come motivated to Vodafone Arena.

It does need to be stated meanwhile that Galatasaray is much stronger team compare to last season and does provide much better attacking football with new transfers providing much push and strength at the front for the team.

One of the main advantages regardless of squad is incredible performance of newly-signed player Eren Derdiyok who by the way has scored many goals to Besiktas in previous games while being at the Kasimpasa. If Galatasaray would use him in effective way as their did last week against Rizespor than he would be able to find goals and possibly provide some beautiful goals, so it is important for Besiktas to defend him if it doesnt want to concede and put game into danger. Tolga Cigerci, another newly-signed player, has also started season in very impressive manner and therefore his role at the midfield could be important to stop Besiktas attacks and start his team ones. With goalkeeper its arleady clear advantage, as Akhisar Belediyespor head coach Cihat Arslan has stated that with Fernando Muslera there is unfair competition between Galatasaray and other team. The fact that supporters would come to game, even through might not be cheering as loud as Besiktas ones, mentally would surely provide extra motivation for the players.

Galatasaray does provide an impressive performance at the league lately and as remembered it won arleady against Besiktas at the Super Cup via penalty. Even if Besiktas is an advantage with playing home, Galatasaray is close enough to win game also.

Trabzonspor game against Konyaspor is very crucial for future of the season.

After winning with 6:0 Serhat Arhadanspor at the Turkish Cup 2nd round game but having poor start to the Super League, Trabzonspor would aim to carry on this motivation and confidence boost obtained from Ardahanspor against Konyaspor.

It does need to be stated however that Konyaspor is among tough teams at the Super League and despite of not great start for them their would provide strong opposition to Trabzon. Meanwhile, Trabzonspor does need to carry on its motivation from Ardahan but needs to be aware that it is different game at different platform and it would be played against strong team even through their are aware of that. Trabzonspor is among teams which is capable to go through this bad results and so is Ersun Yanal but worrying part is that this performance is similar to last season. Meanwhile, administration has started blaming unluck for this results and this view could be dangerous as it would not do right thing to improve teams football.

After gaining  motivation, its time for Trabzonspor to win and getting good score against opponent like Konyaspor who is performing at the Europa League and surely has good aims for this season at the Super League could be coming at the perfect time and set their focus once more. However, to losing to them could bring big damage also so this game is certainly is crucial for Trabzonspor.

Results
Turkish Super League, 5th week:
Antalyaspor 0:0 Akhisar Belediyespor

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 5th week:
13:30 Basaksehirspor - Osmanlispor
16:00 Trabzonspor - Konyaspor
20:00 Besiktas - Galatasaray

In other news: 

- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines and bans, which are: 
- Kayserispor player Miladin Stefanovic has been referred for anti-sportmanship behaviour.
- Gaziantepspor has been referred for 6 players recieving yellow cards at one game.

- Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie will not play against Gaziantepspor during Super League 5th week game.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek: Fans had asked for away fans ban to be lifted. We achieved that, now its time for them to behave good.Thedecision was based into union and togetherness raised from attempted coup d'etat aftermath.It was right thing

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat is expected to start with Sener Ozbayrakli during Super League 5th week game against Gaziantepspor.

- Konyaspor player Barry Douglas: Our game against Trabzonspor will be hard their have problems now. But we would give our best to win.

- Gaziantepspor has extended contracts of Elyasa Sume for 2 years and Baris Yardimci, Abdulkadir Kayali and Alpay Kocakli for 4 years.

- ClubRacing player Oscar Romero: I was ready to move to Fenerbahce, I even obtained info about Turkey and club.But due of time difference it didnt work out. I expected deal earlier so I can go to team in January.

- Trabzonspor general secretary Gencaga Meric: We have full trust to the team. We were unlucky back to back but Ersun Yanal trust his team.

- Gaziantepspor vice-CEO Bulent Konca: Gaziantep Arena will be ready for 1/10 game against Bursaspor, at worst it will be on 21/10

- Galatasaray plans to extend contract with Bruma which would improve his salary and include 40 million euro release clause.

-Besiktas players Caner Erkin and Gokhan Gonul expected to be in starting 11 during Super League 5th week game against Galatasaray.

- Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes plans to start game with Oguzhan Ozyakup and bring Talisca on 2nd half in game against Galatasaray.

- Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim gives support and trust to club player Salih Ucan.

- Trabzonspor player Ugur Demirok will not play against Konyaspor due of injury.

- Bursaspor player Del Valle: Our league game against Kasimpasa is no different from others. I am highly motivated and aim to give my best.I want to stay at the Bursaspor and will carry on giving my best for this team.

What happened in Turkish football today? 22.09.2016

Trabzonspor needs to carry on yesterday success at the Super League.

It was important for Trabzonspor to get a confident result against Serhat Ardahanspor at the Turkish Cup 2nd round game as the team was going through difficult period at the league and also with its supporters. It has managed to get a positive result with 6:0 confident win.

Following the game, Trabzonspor head coach Ersun Yanal did state however that the scoreline was not important for them during yesterday's game as it was more crucial for them to check how is squad is ready for upcoming games especially substitutes and reserves. The squad which was presented by Yanal meanwhile needs to be stated was a mixture of both players from starting 11 and also ones who dont get much playing time. Even through, it is hard to comment about Trabzonspor while playing against weak time, it did show lots of togetherness during the game which was important to see.

For now, it is important for Trabzonspor to aim to continue this performance at the league starting with pretty tough game against Konyaspor on 24th September and start getting good results at the Super League.

Away games ban has been lifted by Provincial Security Committee.

The main news at the Turkish football world today was an announcement by Provincial Security Committee news that the away games supporters ban has been lifted after 5 years, starting from this weekend Super League 5th week game between Besiktas and Galatasaray.

The lift has been placed at first place due of raise of hooliganism behaviour among derby games in Istanbul and to prevent this and to put as some kind of punishment the ban was placed. Until, now it was always seem to be too early for ban to be lifted as their were arguments also taking place outside of the stadiums. However, with the events in Turkey during of the attempted coup d'etat on 15th July, Club's Union following mood of togetherness in Turkey has requested for ban to be lifted. Following number of talks between club's, mayorship, police and security it was finally decided for the ban to be lifted which means Galatasaray supporters will be able to come to the Super League 5th week game between Besiktas and Galatasaray.

Even through this is good news and this blog approves this decision, it needs to be remembered that union at the national interests of the public is not same as between fans. As it was remembered, during Super Cup game back last month there was some hooliganism activism and hence both clubs, security and fans need to be careful for some provacative of fans will not take place.

UEFA has changed kick-off times of home games for Turkish clubs after clocks change in Europe.

When Turkish government few weeks has announced that from this on, country will not change clock on time-saving zone this year, one of the biggest question arisen was how it would affect to the UEFA games.

UEFA has made an announcement today that there was be change of kick-off times for home games at the Champions League and Europa League,with those games starting 2 hours earlier or 1 hour earlier from usual time. Champions League Turkish games played at home will kick-off at 20:45 while in Europa League it would be kicked of 21:00 or 19:00. This times would allow to not affect to the next section in other words people who would be viewing those games would be able to watch normal kick-off time of other games at 23:45 and Europa League at 00:05. Those decision would surely be able to keep its supporters to come to game without worrying too much about returning home.

Those decisions needs to be stated would only affect home games and will not have any impact to away games of Turkish teams obviously.

Results
Turkish Cup, 2nd round:
Eyupspor 0:2 Gaziantepspor
Bayrampasa 0:1 Bursaspor
Bugsasspor 2:0 Sultanbeyli Belediyespor
Kizicabolukspor 5:1 Mersin IdmanYurdu
Denizlispor 2:1 Kemerspor 2003
Sivasspor 3:1 Tire 1922
Gaziantep Buyuksehirspor 3:2 Duzcespor
Goztepe 5:0 Kutahyaspor

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 4th week:
20:00 Antalyaspor - Akhisar Belediyespor

In other news:

- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines and bans, which are: 
- Bursaspor has recieved 10,500 TL fine for anti-sportmanship behaviour by whole team.
- Trabzonspor has recieved 22,500 TL fine for behaviour of fans by PFDK and the blockage of the stadium for fans.
- Trabzonspor administrator Nevzat Aydin has recieved 21 days of deprivation of rights and 25,000 TL fines for anti-spormanship.
- Gaziantepspor has recieved warning for behaviour of fans.
- AkhisarBelediyespor has recieved 15,000 TL for not making sure that stairs will not be occupied, 15,000 for unallowed banners and 15,000 TL fine not providing equal changing room opportunities for away team
- Genclerbirligi goalkeeper coach Atila Gerin has recieved 1 game ban and 13,000 TL fine
- Genclerbirligi goalkeeper coach Yurt Vermez has recieved 1 game ban and 13,000 TL fine 
- Besiktas administrator Ahmet Nur Cebi: Fenerbahce administrator Mahmut Uslu always makes negative comments before derbies.I dont think he shows goodwill. Our fans needs to be careful and dont fall in provacation on Saturday

- Besiktas would ask Wolfsburg player Mario Gomez to bring transfer fee to club if he would like to return to them in midseason.

- Genclerbirligi player Siarhei Palitsevich will not be able to play for 2 weeks due of injury.

- Antalyaspor player Mbilla will not play Super League 5th week game against Akhisar Belediyespor due of injury.

- Bursaspor administrators will have meeting with Galatasaray player Serdar Aziz to solve out old payment issues.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel has lost case against advocate Hasan Kaksi which took 4 years regarding of power of attorney of his villa.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer PSG player Hatem Ben Arfa.

- It became clear that Besiktas administrators has trouble at recieving permission to play UEFA games at Vodafone Arena. Team send 4 reports

- Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink wants to camp before Super League game against Besiktas in facilities rather than in hotel.

- Fenerbahce player Aatif Chahechouhue is starting looking for new club to be transferred to in midseason transfer window.