Trabzonspor is getting into dangerous situation by losing to Antalyaspor yesterday.
Trabzonspor carries on its poor performance at the Super League following 1:0 loss to the Antalyaspor during 11th week game and has found itself with only 2 points behind of relegation zone which certainly does raise number of questions about the future of the team at this season and its performance.
Our blog has stated several times at this season that Trabzonspor was seeing this season as an transition period and in fact it did play number of games which were played at high and top class level football however with high number of losing points this season slowly becoming more like poor rather than unstable season. Trabzonspor as with most of the games did show its willingness to win the game with high number of attacks to Antalyaspor goal but intense defensive by their opponents didnt allow them to find goals. This in fact shows that team does have an issue of forward players who have at difficulty at creating chances and provide last touches to score a goal. In fact, Antalyaspor head coach Riza Calimbay was unhappy with such high number of defensive game by his side and despite of winning wasnt fully satisfied with performance. It is just crucial for players to show much more active football if it wants to win games this season.
Trabzonspor could find itself at very critical condition until midseason break and surely needs to use the break in an effective way especially taking account that extra week was given by Turkish Football Federation on January.
Besiktas needs to win Benfica game if it wants to be almost at the knockout stages.
After very successful performance at this season Champions League, Besiktas would be coming back to this tournament at the game against Benfica which it needs to win for it to make its chance to get to the next stage of the tournament more likely.
As it is known right now, Benfica and Napoli are leading at the group while Besiktas is one point behind them and is certainly aiming to get to the knockout stages of the tournament. Rignt now, the fate of their is at their hands since as their will enter to last week of the group stage, it has chance to overpass Benfica and would come to Dinamo Kiev with high hopes. Otherwise, it would be dependant to Napoli-Benfica result if it fails to win tomorrow. Besiktas as it is known didnt yet lose game at its home ground Vodafone Arena and certainly aims to carry on this performance at the game tomorrow with the help of the fans would aim to provide one of its historical wins at the game. One of the issues with the team is high number of injured players but as always it has strong substitute and those players would be able to fill spaces of those players.
Besiktas has good chance of beating Benfica with form their providing at this season and hence it has capability to achieve that even through their need to be careful as Benfica with their expeirience has been in similar circumstances and knows how to cope with those difficulties.
Turkish Football Federation has added extra week for midseason break.
Turkish Football Federation has announced that the mid-season break has been extended with 1 week after some of the clubs, with leadership of Antalyaspor, has asked for the league to be extended to help them to prepare longer for 2nd half of the league and also have effective midseason transfer window season.
This talks of not having enough period for preparation has been openned at the last season with Turkish Cup being played almost straight away after midseason break started when it was argued that teams cant get effective mid-season training camp but this was ignored by football federation. Surely, without Euro's or World Cup taking place next summer it has allowed TFF to follow this demand and move starting date for Super League of 2nd half from 7th January to 14th January which would allow clubs to have preparation, play friendly games and focus into transfers by administrators side. It just an important for clubs to use this extra week more effectively and make it meaningful for their performance.
This time TFF compare to last season had at least accepted its mistake with season planning and had changed which is good move, compare to last season where planning was wrong and also stubborness from them when it was identified of poor scheduling by clubs.
Schedule:
UEFA Champions League, Group B, 5th week:
20:45 Besiktas - Benfica
22:45 Napoli - Dinamo Kiev
In other news:
- Turkish Football Federation has announced referrals and bans to the Professional Football Disciplinary Committee which are:
- Gaziantepspor, Adanaspor, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray has been referred for events at the field.
- Adanaspor and Trabzonspor has been referred for events at the field.
- Adanaspor player Bekir Yilmaz has been referredK for actions which against rules of game.
- Fenerbahce has been referred for not leaving stairs empty during the game.
- Fenerbahce worker Huseyin Dumlupinar has been referred for attacks
- Galatasaray has been referred for 6 players recieving yellow cards during the game.
- Trabzonspor has been referred for 8 players recieving yellow cards during the game.
- Rizespor has extended contract with its player Leonard Kweuke and Orhan Ovacikli for 5 years.
- Galatasaray player Selcuk Inan has attended to training session today.
- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: We dont have plan to bring back Gokhan Tore. He needs to wants himself to return we will not ask for him to come
- Trabzonspor: Our player Mustafa Akbas has injury at his face following Antalyaspor game. His recovery has started.
- Karabukspor: After going through possible mistake of rules by referee in Kasimpasa game we decided to send complaint to TFF.
- Antalyaspor head coach Riza Calimbay: Our aim for this season is to end league at best place where we can. I am expecting for Samuel Eto'o to be available to play on game against Adanaspor at the 2nd half
- Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu: Selcuk Inan and Ayhan Akman are good friends and had argument. We had solved an issue.Our player Kolbeinn Sighortsson will recover from injury in 10 days. We dont plan to sell him.We dont have any issues with Jan Olde Riekerink. He would stay as team head coach.
- Besiktas plans to provide 1.5 million euro bonus to the team if their achieve to get to knockout stages of Champions League.
- Turkish pundit and ex-footballer Ridvan Dilmen has stated that he could run for TFF CEO in 2019.
- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat: Our player Robin van Persie is in great condition and has scored 5 goals lately. He should aim for national team now.
- Antalyaspor has raised bonus for the win against Trabzonspor at the Super League 11th week game to 50,000 TL.
- Gaziantepspor head coach Ismail Kartal: Due of regional issues we had problems at transferring defenders. Hopefully we would solve this.Right now everyone needs points at the league. Karabukspor is disciplined team we aiming for win
- Galatasaray player Lukas Podolski is reported to have an argument with head coach Jan Olde Riekerink for not starting in 11 last game.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer PSG player Hatem Ben Arfa.
- West Ham United loaned player Gokhan Tore manager Ali Pektas: Noone has called to Tore. Right now he is focussed to return to his team after recovering from injury.
- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Nice head coach Lucien Favre and ex-Inter Milan head coach Frank de Boer.
- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim as club head coach.
- Besiktas plans to attend to attend to the tournaments at the Far East which could bring them 300 million dollar as the sector.
- Trabzonspor head coach Ersun Yanal: Noone is happy with a condition which our club right now. But we need to be together to solve it.We need to make transfers which would be effective for our team and make team stronger.
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