What happened in Turkish football today? 13.09.2016

Talisca goal has brought an important draw to Besiktas against Benfica.

Last minute goal scored by the Benfica player Talisca who is currently loaned to Besiktas has allowed the team to get an importnant draw at the opening game at the Group B and despite of not providing great football in the level of the Benfica has led lots of motivation and optimism for this Champions League campaign.

It does need to be stated that Besiktas didnt start game in great way as it had conceded goal at 12th minute and had trouble to get control of the game even through it did manage to slow down the performance of the Benfica for the rest of the game. Besiktas did improve during 2nd half with going forward in much more times and also providing much more brave football. It did show to the viewers and team supporters that it didnt give up to the game and were focussed to get a draw. However, the most important moment of the game has come from free-kick goal at the last minute by the Talisca. Talisca was loaned from Benfica which also mean that he did score goal to his own team which once shows how it is important to stay professional and do its job at full when wearing one team shirt. Besiktas did great an important point and now would aim to carry on like that with next game.

Benfica meanwhile taking account it was missing high number of its key players due of injuries did also provide impressive performance and showed that even with limited squad its not easy to be beaten. Its still stays as one of the main favourites to win this group.

Besiktas would now focus to carry on its Super League game against Akhisar Belediyespor and also looks forwards for 2nd game against Dinamo Kiev.

Kasimpasa has terminated contract with its head coach Riza Calimbay.

Kasimpasa has terminated contract with its head coach Riza Calimbay for the poor performance of his team during this season with obtaining only 1 point after 3 weeks and taking last spot at the Super League.

Riza Calimbay has been fired during 1st day of the Kurban Bayram, also known as Eid-Mubarek, and hence he recieved not very good present from his club for this holy holiday. It does need to be stated that Kasimpasa, which surely was aiming for Europa League spot during this season, has also worst average with scoring 2 goals and conceding 4 goals. Stating that Kasimpasa does also have internal issues at the team such as number of new players who are not focussed into the league. It is certain that Kasimpasa is not as strong as it was last season, and head coach would be coming as an replacement would have very tough period at the team and needs to bring some drastic revisions.

Kasimpasa has started this season in high motivation with Riza Calimbay good record at the last season but things didnt start going during this season as well as expected and administrators needed to go for drastic changes. But it is questionable if new coach would solve those issues.

Galatasaray tries to solve issues and raise motivation with its player Selcuk Inan.

There are talks at the Turkish sports media of arguments regarding of the Selcuk Inan, with Jan Olde Riekerink being unhappy with performance of his player while Inan in return is having low motivation.

However, this arguments has been declined by Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu stating that those decisions has come tactically and is not operation against Selcuk Inan to let him leave the team. In addition, there is talks at the club that Jan Olde Riekerink would have conversation with Selcuk Inan in duration of the day attempting to motivate and state that reason of his substitute against Kayserispor during Super League 3rd week are not personally and was done in totally tactical reasons. It is certain that technical staff and administrators are aware of importance of Selcuk Inan and surely will not to lose such a key player at his squad. Of course, the case could be even overexerated as usual by the media and fact that Inan didnt talk to anyone after Kayserispor could be totally related to the score.

Galatasaray would try its best to keep its player at high motivation as surely he is an important player for title which Galatasaray which it is aiming in this season.

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

In other news:

- TFF has announced referrals to the Professional Football Disciplinary Committee due of:
- Adanaspor, Gaziantepsor, Antalyaspor, Fenerbahce, Bursaspor has been referred for behaviour of fans.
- Adanaspor, Gaziantepsor, Antalyaspor, Konyaspor, Bursaspor has been referred for events at the field.

- UEFA has appointed Turkish observer Erol Ersoy to observe Europa League between Southampton and Sparta Prague.

- Fenerbahce player JeremainLens: I didnt recieve lots of playing time with Sunderland and their told me to find club.Fenerbahce was first option and I took it. I am happy to be here.I have some good Turkish friends in Holland. Their told me about Fenerbahce and importance of football.I had played with Dick Advocaat at the PSV Eindhoven and I had experienced great season with him.Zorya Lugansk is a good team but we strong enough to beat them in Ukraine.

- Besiktas player Gokhan Inler: I really wanted to come to Besiktas. We had talked to Fikret Orman and made an agreement.I am here to give my all and best performance. Our aim is to win games. I came to very good coach and has great understading of football.

- Zorya Lugansk head coach Yuri Vernedyb: To be honest we aware of Fenerbahce bad start at league. Their will be focussed to win, we aware.

- TFF administrator Servet Yardimci: We have decided to support Slovenian football federation CEO Aleksandr Ceferin, who is also my friend.For our next election for administration to UEFA we would provide our Turkish delegation.We didnt get many votes last time but I believe we would do better.

- Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup has become injured during Champions League Group B 1st week game against Benfica.

- Galatasaray player Nigel de Jong has attended to today's training session after recovering from injury.

- It became clear that Trabzonspor didnt renew its field at Huseyin Avni Aker stadium due of moving to its new field Akyazi Stadium infewweeks

- Bursaspor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Fernandao.

- Fenerbahce plans to look for alternativeplayers of Volkan Demirel, Roman Neustadner, Gregory van del Wiel and Hasan Ali in midseason transfer