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.