Fenerbahce has provided one of the best results of this season against Manchester United.
Fenerbahce has got very important and one of the historical wins against Manchester United with 2:1 scoreline at the Europa League 4th week game which has also direct impact of its qualifying to the knockout stage of the tournament.
Fenerbahce has certainly provided its best football since club head coach Dick Advocaat has joined the team with providing one of the nice performances with very classy and beautiful goals scored by Moussa Sow at the 2nd minute and Jeremain Lens at the 60th minute. With Manchester United having very tough period, to some extend even tougher than Fenerbahce is going through this season, and this aspect has surely affected to United poor performance but this should not overshadow today's performance by the Istanbul side. It was reported prior to the game that Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat has put Martin Skrtel as the leader of the defensive game and Skrtel really acted showing his class including part of fast reaction during Wayne Rooney one-on-one position with Volkan Demirel. Fenerbahce during whole game has shown compact football which it had led for Manchester United not able to create any chances until 89th minute when Wayne Rooney has also scored a good goal which provided good chance to . With this performance and also similar performance during Feyenoord game Fenerbahce could get into the knockout stage.
Manchester United was surely coming out to win this game and hence it will be unfair to state that it was taking game unserious especially last minute of the game would prove that. Therefore, Fenerbahce did win determined Manchester United who is having very tough season and is currently at the most poor performance its having now.
Fenerbahce is currently with 7 points at the top with Feyenoord and with putting Manchester United prior to the last 2 weeks and with getting good results in upcoming games should get through. In fact, it can ticked to last 32 in upcoming games if results go in the way for Fenerbahce.
Osmanlispor has historically won Villarreal in Spain.
Following great performance by the Besiktas and Fenerbahce at this week, Osmanlispor carries on providing a historical tournament at the Europa League group L where it has raised to the leadership in the group without losing to Villarreal in two games.
Osmanlispor as been mentioned prior to the game both by this blog and head coach Mustafa Resit Akcay has stated that Villarreal was coming out to the game as an favourite and were expecting to control the game. In fact, during the game thats how it was played as Villarreal has controlled for most of the time at the game and creating much more chances. However, with Osmanlispor providing its focussed game which it does best and staying at the game has led to Osmanlispor to write its biggest win at its history and marking its mark as team in the level of the Europa League. Rusescu meanwhile carries on providing high class football at the tournament with scoring winning goal while Peirre Webo has scored first goal back on 8th minute. Osmanlispor shows once again how it wants to succeed at the tournament.
Villarreal meanwhile has shown an attacking football and keep going forward and creating chances but good game by the Osmanlispor goalkeeper and defence has only kept them scoring only one goal. Villarreal right now would focus on rest of the games to get to the next stage.
Osmanlispor is currently in leadership with two hands advantage from Villarreal and Zurich and it would play rest of the games with weaker opponents and being focussed to this games could be enough for them to mark history.
Konyaspor did gain experience but performance wise it was poor.
Konyaspor carries on dissapointing performance at the Europa League becoming not only one of the weakest teams among Turkish side but also among whole Europa League tournament, losing its chance to get some hope for knockout stages. Even through mathematically its 4 points behind 2nd place Braga and still has chance it doesnt look like it would get points which are needed.
In fact, thinks did start good for Konyaspor as it got leadership during the game with Rangelov goal on 29th minute which later led for Braga player Mauro to recieve second yellow card which surely has provided high chance for Konyaspor however being with an extra man it has conceded goal.
Konyaspor as been seen at this year Europa League and also in Super League is not as strong as it was and this led for this dissapointing result. Konyaspor head coach Aykut Kocaman has stated during this season that is important to get experience from the tournament and that is what it seems left to do for next 2 weeks as it would play against Shakhtar Donetsk in rest two games which is determined to end group stage with 100% record.
Braga was coming out as favourite of this game and 2nd favourite at the group and despite of conceding goal first has provided great response which is also would be good for experience for Turkish side. Braga has ended 2 game period with Konyaspor without loss which Konya chances are left for luck.
Konyaspor result wise has had disastrous campaign so far but it did gain and will gain nice experience which might help them for rest of Super League and Turkish Cup this season.
Results
UEFA Europa League, Group Stage, Group A:
Fenerbahce 2:1 Manchester United
Zorya 1:1 Feyenoord
UEFA Europa League, Group Stage, Group H:
Braga 3:1 Konyaspor
Gent 3:5 Shakhtar Donetsk
UEFA Europa League, Group Stage, Group L:
Villarreal 1:2 Osmanlispor
Zurich 0:0 Steaua Bucharest
Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
20:00 Galatasaray -Basaksehirspor
In other news:
- Professioanl Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines and bans, which are:
- Adanaspor and Galatasaray has recieved 15,000 TL fine for events at the field.
- Gaziantepspor has recieved 100,000 TL for allowing unallowed fans to enter game.
- TFF Arbitration Court has lifted 2-period transfer ban set to Antalyaspor as it found case against Oktay Deribalta in favour of club.
- Total amount of cash recieved from UEFA by Turkish cups from Champions League and Europa League in past 5 years is 188,400,657 euro.
- Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta: We are aware of some issues at our club which need to be solved. Some will be solved by us some by coach.We are working on different projects to improve performance of team. New stadium will have positive effect.
- Besiktas player Dusco Tosic is expected to recover from his injury latest on 19th November prior to Adanaspor Super League game.
- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: Our players has shown that we can get to knockout stage at Champions League. I am sure we achieve that.If we get to last 16 stage, we would make some transfers at mid-season window.
- Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma has been called to the Portuguese National Team for World Cup Qualifiers.
- Barcelona player Arda Turan didnt complete today's training session due of injury.
- Galatasaray administrators decided not to give fine to its player Yasin Oztekin concluding that taking him out from squad is enough for him
- Fiorentina are interested to transfer Borussia Dortmund player Nuri Sahin.
- Konyaspor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Aatif Chahechouhue
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