Lukas Podolski has shown his class against Antalyaspor.
Introduction of the Lukas Podolski by the Galatasaray to the 2nd half of the Super League 6th week game against Antalyaspor has brought an important win by providing much more attacking football and also by scoring 2 goals in the last minutes of the game.
Galatasaray didnt manage to start its 100th Super League game at the Turk Telekom Arena in a very good way and had some troubles at converting their chances even through it did found high possession. In fact, even through it did look Galatasaray was controlling game, the game was played in a manner which was wanted by Antalyaspor as it provided a good defence especially after 1st half. However, as soon as star player of the team, Lukas Podolski, has entered to the field after long-term injury he has shown his class to the team, supporters and Antalyaspor by making game go in more fast tempo and finding two goals which came with his fighting spirit. Another positive aspect of the game was a goal scored by Selcuk Inan from free-kick which is around a year since he has scored at free-kick for his club.
Antalyaspor did provide a good football at the 1st half and has also found a goal but raise of tempo and the goal by Selcuk Inan at 2nd half has affected negatively to them and hence led Galatasaray to start controlling game more and finding goals.
Galatasaray carries on this season without losing game and winning its 4th game at this season and showing that it aims for this season are for the top and the team would get only better.
Intense games at the Europa League midweek affected both team performance.
The game between two sides who are competing at the Europa League this season has been ended at the draw of the game which was played in a very slow tempo and both sides has difficulty at providing good football after being tired of midweek games.
It was specifically visible from the performance of the Fenerbahce that it has lost the tempo which it had provided at the last two weeks games which has affected them negatively to their performance especially during 1st half of the game. Whole team after game interview did underline that this poor performance has been happened to of tiredness from midweek game which by the way opens long term conversation of the players of getting used to play games at each 3 days in a season which always been a problem for the Turkish teams. The factor that Osmanlispor has also played away game at the midweek has possibly led for them to be tired and hence reduced chances for Osmanlispor to win the game. One of the optimistic sides of the game was for Robin van Persie to score very simple goal but has regained him confidence very likely for upcoming games. Injury of Jeremain Lens has surely affected the game.
Osmanlispor didnt provide great football also from tiredness from Zurich games but has shown very compact football at its ground. Osmanlispor once again shown that its among leading teams at the Super League and it would be tough to beat them even when their not at the great form.
Fenerbahce, in similar manner as Besiktas, needs to rest in this national team break as their had difficult period both at the league and Europe and will be chance to regain strength and concentration to the league.
Besiktas will not perform in high level as it did last season despite of good squad.
Besiktas performance against Rizespor during Super League 6th week game has mainly showed that the team has become tired of this intense period of games in duration of league games and Champions League group stage games. But with the pure class goal scored by Adriano at the last minute has allowed team to win the game which it controlled from start to an end.
It does look like Besiktas will have hard season as it became weaker side from last season and is expected high performance from each game. The strength of the squad, even through still has great players did become weaker and hence even if it would win lots of games and even become champions, the level of performance will not be as expressing as the last season. Especially its observable that Vincent Aboubakar is either not ready or even worser is not at the level which team would like him to be as he did manage not to score straight forward chances yesterday. If it wasnt for Adriano at the last minute, we would be talking here about loss of points and issues which team does have right now. But it does have chance to solve them in national team break.
Besiktas right now has a very variable squad and this also issue for head coach Senol Gunes and he is likely to spend this break to figure out what is his best 11 after observing players after 6 weeks of the Super League games.
Results
Turkish Super League, 6th week:
Alanyaspor 0:5 Basaksehirspor
Galatasaray 3:1 Antalyaspor
Konyaspor 1:0 Alanyaspor
Osmanlispor 1:1 Fenerbahce
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- UEFA has announced that Turkish referee would referee World Cup Qualifier Group D game between Austria and Wales.
- Galatasaray doctor Yener Ince: Wesley Sneijder injury is not serious we substituted him for precaution reasons.
- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek plans to provide where all debts would be paid by administrators so club dont make loss.
- TFF has recieved 38-page report from Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim, which includes 18-page Arda Turan part and has approved it.
- Turkish National Team player Emre Mor manager Muzzi Ozcan has told that player has called Fatih Terim to apologize for his against Croatia
-Fenerbahce player Jeremain Lens will not be able to play for 3-4 weeks due of injury
- Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink has provided 3 hour intense daily training for Nigel de Jong for him to become fully fit.
- Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan has lost 5 kg compare to last season.
- Valencia are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Semih Kaya.
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