22 February 2017

What happened in Turkish football today? 21.02.2017


Trabzonspor are showing good attacking football.

Trabzonspor didnt manage to get its 5th win back-to-back against Alanyaspor during Super League 21st week game even through it was aiming to win the game and has done everything to find crucial goal at the first half an hour.

It needs to be stated that despite of not winning the game after goalless draw Trabzonspor still continues its 2017 Super League journey without losing any single game and has certainly has focussed into aiming for 4th place which would bring them to the Europa League. Trabzonspor has provided very attacking football especially at the 1st half and has done everything to find the goal and hence their cant be not much conversation about their anger for winning right now. Taking account how Trabzonspor was performing during last year, this is crucial change for them which could play an important role for their aim for next season. This blog has stated beforehand that with how team started this season, it could been hardly  could be referred as transition season for them but recent performance now shows that it turns out to be like that for the team.

As been stated, Trabzonspor could now realistically aim for the Europa League spot at the end of the season as Antalyaspor is above them with 3 points and also Fenerbahce and Galatasaray which are having incosistent season and hence their can provide great push towards end of the season for Europa League spot.

Fenerbahce needs to show much brave football if it wants to get to last 16 of Europa League.

Fenerbahce would be coming out to very crucial game against Krasnodar during Europa League 2nd round 2nd leg game after losing 1st leg with 1:0 scoreline and would aim to use advantage of playing home to get to the last 16 stage.

However, it needs to be stated that Fenerbahce are carries on having a very poor performance at the recent games with only winning Besiktas at the Turkish Cup this month. One of the issues seems to be lack of focus into attacks and have some fear to go forward either set by head coach Dick Advocaat or from players, or both. Inclusion of the Robin van Persie at the game tomorrow could help team to focus even more at the attack but bigger problem seem to be pleasant with the wingers who show some lack of providing an attacking football and crossing the ball into dangerous area which hence lets those attackers not getting balls which their want and hence not able to create chances which is serious issue right now for a team. Fenerbahce needs to play more brave football tomorrow against Krasnodar.

Fenerbahce was lucky to some extend taking with circumstances to only lose game with 1:0 scoreline in Russia and hence this could lead to the team to turn game into its own advantage. However, as been stated above its need to provide much more brave football for that.

Galatasaray has announced 65 million euro fine to  Bruma.

Galatasaray newly-appointed head coach Igor Tudor first crises at his new team has been certainly being Bruma who has refused to be going to Rize for Super League 21st week game and this led for Galatasaray administration to provide 65 million fine to the player.

It is reported at the media that Bruma was mainly unhappy for not being selected to the starting 11 game against Rizespor as he found out before travelling that he will not start and hence has decided not to travel to the Rize. Later, it became clear that Tudor still wanted to take him to the game but Bruma has stated that he is not at the mood. This behaviour is certainly is sign of not showing an respect to the head coach of team, and shows that Bruma is showing high ego. Quite naturally, Galatasaray has seen this behaviour without discipline and hence provided him 65 million euro and an option to announce worser fine if this action will be repeated by him. This is right decision to Galatasaray which would send strong message both to the Bruma and other players.

It is important for Bruma to get an important lesson for this actions as he needs team and team needs him for rest of the season especially if their both still aim for league title. Igor Tudor has also send good message to the Bruma by showing that this behaviour is not acceptable.

Schedule:
UEFA Europa League, 2nd round, 2nd leg:
20:00 Fenerbahce - Krasnodar (agg: 0:1)

In other news:

Turkish Football Federation has announced referrals to the Professional Football Disciplinary Committee: 
- Bursaspor player Deniz Yilmaz has been referred for anti-sportmanship behaviour.
- Basaksehirspor has been referredfor not following guidelines during the game.
- Adanaspor has been referred for events at the field and behaviour of the fans.

UEFA has announced that Europa League 2nd round 2nd leg game between Osmanlispor and Olympiakos will be Istvan Vad.

UEFA has announced that Europa League 2nd round 2nd leg game between Besiktas and Hapoel Beer Sheva will be Matej Jug


Turkish referee Mete Kalkavan has been appointed to referee Europa League 2nd round 2nd leg between CSKA Moscow and Rosenborg.

Turkish referee Huseyin Gocek has been appointed to referee Europa League 2nd round 2nd leg between Sparta Prague and Rostov.

Trabzonspor player Jan Durica will not be able to play for 4 weeks due of injury.

Lech Poznan has made an agreement with Karabukspor player Elvis Kokalovic until end of the season with 3 year option.

Galatasaray: We are start believing that some decisions has been made on purpose against us. Some statements should be made about it.We start realising that some decisions like in Karabukspor decisions start creating chances to forgive themselves.We are as club want correct and honest decisions not being affected by anyone outside.

Konyaspor spokesman Erhan Gokmen: We dont have problem with coach Aykut Kocaman. He has 1.5 year contact, we plan to extend 2 more years.We are having bad days right now with results. But now we need to give energy into winning Trabzonspor.

Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim has won Honor Award at "5th January" local Adana newspaper 18 year anniversary event.

Galatasaray player Wesley Sneijder is reported to give assistance about team to head coach Igor Tudor.

Fenerbahce are interested to appoint club Konyaspor head coach Aykut Kocaman and head coach Laurent Blanc.

Karabukspor head coach Zoran Barisic had his 1st training session with his new team.

Konyaspor head coach Aykut Kocaman didnt attend to today's training session as he recieved permission from administrators.

Besiktas player Caner Erkin is expected to resume training session within 2 weeks time.

Fenerbahce are interested to appoint head coach Hamza Hamzaoglu as club's head coach.

Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma is expecting to have rest during Europa League 2nd round 2nd leg game against Hapoel Beer Sheva.

Fenerbahce are considering to end contract of its player Volkan Demirel at the end of the season.

Besiktas plans to offer an long-term extension contract to its head coach Senol Gunes after Super League 22ndweek game against Galatasaray

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