Galatasaray has managed to turn game around during 2nd half against Bursaspor.
Galatasaray carries on being only one team at the Super League after 6th week who didnt lose any single game even through it was losing to Bursaspor until 73th minute with 1:0 scoreline but has turned game and won it with 2:1 scoreline and make them leaders of the league with 3 point difference from Besiktas.
It does need to mention that Galatasaray did not start game in a way which we we were used to see from them during this season as it had trouble to get high tempo which was mainly prevented from Bursaspor. It was expected that Galatasaray would have tough time as Bursaspor has much higher aims with its head coach Paul Le Guen during this season compare to last. In fact, until 2nd half Bursaspor has shown very good performance but it needs to be mentioned that introduction of players such as Sofiane Feghouli has raised tempo. It was important for Feghouli to find this goal as he is among biggest investments during past transfer window and has found goal during his 1st shot of the game. Galatasaray had struggled and it be stated that Bursaspor at least deserved draw but the way performed towards end of the game has led them to win game with 2:1 scoreline. It was important for Galatasaray to get an away win even when it didnt perform its best during today's game.
As been mentioned, Bursaspor does continue showing an improvement from last season and has managed to keep leading scoreline of 1:0 for 73 minutes taking account that Galatasaray provides fast attacking football. It did play great tactical football but due of losing concentration and becoming tired didnt manage to keep top football until end of the game.
With Besiktas losing to Fenerbahce, Galatasaray has 3 point advantage at the early stages of the Super League but more importantly carries on season with important wins and are still only team at league not losing game so far.
Fenerbahce has found itself into title race punch after Besiktas win.
When coming to the Super League 6th week game against Besiktas, Fenerbahce has only one option for the game and it was to win game and get back to the title race fight in early stages of the season. With the help of its supporters, it has gained result it was looking for.
The game between both sides has been in high tension which to some extend went into hand of the Fenerbahce as it was able to control game and dominate the game as it wanted for most part of the game even through it did lose those control occassionally during 2nd half of the game. It needs to be stated that penalty decisions which were given by referee of the game Ali Palabayik, who has recieved lots of criticism from Besiktas, were correct but number of cards given were questionable. It also needs to be reminded that Fenerbahce carries on showing its dominance at derby games in general but especially during its stadium as it has managed to not lose to Besiktas for 14 games right now as it became clear that Fenerbahce supporters does play very important role for its fans. It was deserved win for Fenerbahce even through it didnt play perfect football for 90 minutes.
Fenerbahce got itself back into title race right now and to some extend has restarted its season once again as it is 2 points behind Besiktas and 5 points from Galatasaray and would now look forward to Akhisarspor game.
Besiktas cant show high performance in high tension games.
Besiktas it needs to be stated did start game in good manner and has shown good performance during 2nd half of the game where it also has found a goal towards end of the game. But referee, who did make right and wrong decisions during game, did affect negatively to the team.
One of the possble down sides of the Besiktas is that it is uncapable to provide very good performance at the game where there is tension. Even through team mainly focus to playing top football which in long-term is good thing, it is uncapable to control game at tension games which been created by referee and/or by opponents. This has always led for team to lose points and its only area which team needs seriously to improve on. Even through Ali Palabayik decisions could be seen to harsh, there was moments during game where he was right and Besiktas did show some agresive game which only done damage to them. Positive aspects for Besiktas is with this result its still ahead of Fenerbahce and still has control of its destiny which it currently mainly giving battle for top position with Galatasaray. But in same time it did lose chance to get point difference higher from Fenerbahce and hence this is not as ok result for them as it might seem as it has lost chance for more advantage from its one of main rivals.
Besiktas has been affected certainly for this game but its important to forget it and now focus to very important game against Red Bull Leipzig at Champions League 2nd week and continue its good start after Porto win.
Turkish Super League, 6th week:
Sivasspor 2:3 Goztepe
Karabukspor 2:4 Yeni Malatyaspor
Kasimpasa 1:1 Kayserispor
Bursaspor 1:2 Galatasaray
Turkish Super League, 6th week:
20:00 Antalyaspor - Osmanlispor
In other news:
- UEFA has announced that referee of Champions League 2nd week game between Leipzig and Besiktas will be Sergei Karasev.
- Karabukspor head coach Erkan Sozeri: We have played 1st half very poorly and missed too simple goals.2nd half we improved and played better. I will ask for resignation from our CEO. I dont want to carry on giving damage to team.
- Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakyp has stated that he recieved 2nd yellow card for complaining to referee Ali Palabayik and didnt swear.
- 30 Fenerbahce fans and 16 Besiktas fans were taken into custody following Super League 6th week game between each other.
- Besiktas player Adriano has recovered from his injury.
- Besiktas administrator Safak Mahmutyazicioglu has stated that club would open court case against Fenerbahce administrator Mahmut Uslu following Super League 6th week game between sides.
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