What happened in Turkish football today? 25.10.2016

Galatasaray has started its defence of Turkish Cup with 5:1 win against Dersimspor.

Galatasaray has started its campaign for defending its Turkish Cup with a confident 5:1 win against 3rd league team Dersimspor and has secured its place for group stage. The game has been mainly dominated by hat-trick of Lukas Podolski.

Galatasaray among scoring goals has also created high number of the chances as the game progressed and has shown its superiority against weaker side as was expected with Lukas Podolski providing his best play in this season and has shown that he could become one of the key players at the team for upcoming games. Dersimspor as expected didnt provide any scare to the Galatasaray and it is very likely that Galatasaray has got the easiest win for this whole season and would now focus for the group stage where it is not expected to have much difficult games, even through it is expected for certain to be at the last 16 stage. With Galatasaray focussing also league title at this season it  is tough to say how serious would team take Turkish Cup this season and this result should be taken at the side their do but it does show how focussed team is now.

Dersimspor was coming out to the with losing arleady 1:0 before kickoff for sure and this game was mainly due for team to get an experience and learn some lessons from top side. It surely did that and apart of scoring towards end didnt provide a lot of positive view at the game.

Galatasaray has surely got an important win and regained its confidence after loss to Trabzonspor in the league and now would focus into getting good results at the Super League this weekend for sure, playing against Adanaspor.

Fenerbahce has set a target to win the game and not focus to much into performance.

Fenerbahce main aim during yesterday's Super League 8th week game against Konyaspor was to win
the game without focussing how it would achieve that. With this aim it has achieved exactly that with its poor performance with only finding goal at the penalty scored by Emmanuel Emenike at middle of 1st half.

In fact, other dangerous attack by Fenerbahce during whole game was the chance by the Robin van Persie where he had hit the goal post and later has provided 2 weak headers in the same attack. As been mentioned earlier, Fenerbahce has mainly allowed Konyaspor to control the game especially after Emenike goal and was focussed to play safe football. Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat has stated after game that even through it wasnt way of football which was suitable to the team, it was important to play like that as their is risk of conceding goal in counter attacks. This kind of play in fact once again makes it clear that team has some issues at the midfield area which it would surely aim to fix during mid-season transfer window. It is just important for Fenerbahce to build with this win in upcoming games.

Overall, it wasnt impressive game by the Fenerbahce but it had achieved its target as sometimes its more important to win games rather than focussing how game has been won.

Trabzonspor would aim to keep its motivation in game against Corum Belediyespor.

Trabzonspor will restart its Turkish Cup campaign with the 3rd league 2nd place team Corum  Belediyespor at the 3rd stage which would decide which team would get to the group stage of the cup.

Trabzonspor as it is known would come to the game with a great motivation as it has managed to win very important game against Galatasaray at the Super League 8th week game and would aim to carry on as the side with this motivation which been gained on Saturday. Trabzonspor quite naturally is expected to come up with a substitute players and Ersun Yanal would be able to check how his alternative squad to see what kind performance those players can give right now. It is coming out as strong favourite to get to the next stage and playing a daytime game at 14:15 in Corum could create some issues at the 3rd league team field but despite of that it is not expected to have tough times.

Trabzonspor to get into the right track at the Super League and whole season needs to get back-to-back wins and Turkish Cup where in early stages it meets teams with lower level than Super League it has chance to carry on this confidence and motivation as a  team.

Results
Turkish Cup, 3rd round: 
Pendikspor 0:1 Genclerbirligi
Amedspor 2:1 Keciorengucu
Bandirmaspor 1:1 Sancaktepe Belediyespor (pen:5:6)
24Erzicanspor 2:1 Yeni Malatyaspor
Kizilcabolukspor 3:2 Kocaeli Birlikspor
Elazigspor 5:2 Ofspor
Gaziantepspor 1:0 Duzyurtspor
Rizespor 3:0 Fethiyespor
Galatasaray 5:1 Dersimspor

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, 3rd round: 
12:00 Inegolspor - Sariyer
13:30 Gumushanespor - Konya Anadoluspor Selcukspor
14:15 Corum Belediyespor - Trabzonspor
14:30 Buyukcekmece Belediyespor - Sanliurfaspor
14:30 Kilkaleri Belediyespor - Gaziantep Belediyespor
15:00 Sivasspor - Bugsasspor
15:00 Samsunspor - Menemen Belediyespor
15:00 Afjet Afyonspor - Umraniyespor
15:00 Balikesirspor - Darica Genclerbirligi
15:00 Boluspor - Elaziz Belediyespor
16:30 Erzurum Belediyespor - Tuzlaspor
16:30 Akhisar Belediyespor -  Nazilli Belediyespor
21:00 Bursaspor - Yomraspor

In other news: 

- Turkish Football Federation has announced following referrals to the Professional Football Disciplinary Committee which are;
- Genclerbirligi has been referred for 7 players recieved yellow cards one game.
- Galatasaray and Trabzonspor has been referred for events at the field and behaviour by fans.
- Karabukspor has been referred for behaviour by fans.
- Konyaspor has been referred for behaviour by fans.
- Antalyaspor player Diego de Oliviera has been referred for his actions towards referee.
- Antalyaspor trainer Mehmet Bulent Albayrak has been referred for his anti-sportmanship behaviour.

- Besiktas: Our club has done some injection to the Caner Erkin during national team break last month, but he was called to squad suddenly.We were expecting to make treatment in duration of one week of break. We have reported about case to national team doctors.We are requestion from TFF a report about any treatment to Caner Erkin during his stay with national team.

- Antalyaspor spokesman Bora Terzioglu: When Oktay Deribalta came from Mersin Idman Yurdu he was recieving less money playing time.This should be in our defence regarding transfer ban.

- Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir would referee Saudi Arabian 1st league game between El Hilal and El Ettihad on 28th October.

- Kasimpasa administrator Hasan Hilmi Oksuz: We had started this season poorly because our ex-head coach Riza Calimbay didnt motivate team.He was criticising team a lot and this affect performance.

- Antalyaspor head coach Riza Calimbay: Statements from Kasimpasa administrator Hasan Oksuz are not true. I gave my all to a team.I would start criminal case against him.

- Bursaspor player Pablo Batalla has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Fenerbahce player Mehmet Topal has played Super League 8th week game against Konyaspor with a pain at leg.

- Besiktas plans to purchase its loan Inter Milan player Caner Erkin in upcoming months for 1 million euro.

- Galatasaray plans to start negotiations with its player Lionel Carole regarding of the extension of his contract for 3 years.

- Adanaspor player Renan Diniz and Hayrullah Akyuz didnt attend today's training session due of injury.

- Besiktas and Trabzonspor are interested to transfer AIK player Alexander Isak.

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

- Galatasaray plans to loan Borussia Dortmund player Nevin Subotic with an option to transfer at mid-season transfer window.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Chelsea player Cesc Fabregas.

- Besiktas player Vincent Aboubakar has improved his performance after his family has arrived to Istanbul.

- Bursaspor plans to extend contract with its player Harun Tekin until 2020 year.