Besiktas has been drawn with Olympiakos at the Europa League last 16 games.
Following getting through Israeli club Hapoel Beer-Sheva during Europa League 2nd round game with comfortable aggregate scoreline of 5:2, Besiktas would meet against Olympiakos at the last 16 stage after Greek side has knocked out Osmanlispor.
To all respect to the Osmanlispor, it needs to be stated that Besiktas are stronger team than them and as been stated by the Olympiakos sports director Stephane Karembeu, Besiktas are coming out as stronger favourite reminding that their manage to get through Hapoel Beer-Sheva at the knockout stages of the Champions League earlier this season, while Besiktas didnt have much issue against them. It needs to be stated however, that Olympiakos will not be as easy as Hapoel Beer Sheva, as would been expected as tournament progresses, but in same time their not at their best which we tend to see them at the previous season at the Champions League hence Besiktas are coming out as favourite to the game. What is important here is of course for Besiktas to play their best football which their show both at the Super League and at the European stage this season (apart of course Dinamo Kiev game in Ukraine) and the team would be able to carry on at the tournament with brave steps until final at the Stockholm.
Besiktas did recieve a good opponent even through the only team at the draw which could provide some difficult time would been Manchester United from all 15 sides. Besiktas are coming out as favourite but their need to stay focus.
Osmanlispor should be proud of their European performance this season.
Osmanlispor has ended its incredible and memorable dream at the European journey as it has lost to the 2nd round 2nd leg game to the Olympiakos with 3:0 scoreline which has ended up being ties aggregate scoreline. Despite of that, Osmanlispor has shown great football at the European stage.
At the article above, it was stated that Besiktas should not have much problem at eliminating Olympiakos, and this should not put Osmanlispor failure to do so into criticism. The team firstly is not strong enough as their Istanbul counterparts and also it was their first ever experience at the European football.Starting from 2nd qualifying round of the competition Osmanlispor has played an impressive 14 games where it has shown good football as it would be too harsh to state that Osmanlispor performance at the game yesterday has been poor. This surely would been good experience for players, whole club and certainly will memorable parts for the supporters of the team.
It needs to be stated, that everyone who was involved at this memorable performance should be proud of them especially players and head coach Mustafa Resit Akcay and it made their mark also to European football followers this season.
Trabzonspor are aiming to start winning games at the Super League starting with Konyaspor game.
Trabzonspor would play against Konyaspor during Super League 22nd week where it would be aiming to restart its winning streak after drawing to the Alanyaspor at the last week, and more importantly carry its loseless performance at the league during 2017.
It needs to be stated despite of not winning against Alanyaspor at the last week, Trabzonspor technical staff and players are focussed to the Konyaspor game as their had provided very attacking football and hence has been stayed focussed for the win. Taking account that Konyaspor are not having their best days with their performance right now it is also good chance for them to regain its motivation for the upcoming games which are coming up at the league. Konyaspor meanwhile, which has also felt unfair for the last week ban of the fans and fine, would also aim to get a positive result of the game and possibly restart their season as head coach Aykut Kocaman would focus to regain positive performance of the team.
Trabzonspor still are coming as favourite for the game and would aim to carry on their loseless performance of the 2017 but Konyaspor are expected to give them some tough time.
Results
Turkish Super League, 22nd week:
Rizespor 2:4 Kayserispor
Kasimpasa 4:0 Bursaspor
Schedule
Turkish Super League, 22nd week:
15:00 Alanyaspor - Adanaspor
16:00 Akhisar Belediyespor - Antalyaspor
19:00 Konyaspor - Trabzonspor
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- Olympiakos sports director Christian Karembeu: We try to win this tie, but Besiktas is stronger than us.We played early with Hapoel Beer Sheva and had harder time than Besiktas. Their favourite
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