What happened in Turkish football today? 30/10/2017

Fenerbahce attack 3:3 Fenerbahce defence

Fenerbahce has lost a very good opportunity to reduce point difference to 5 points with league leaders Galatasaray during Super League 10th week game against Kayserispor with 3:3 scoreline especially taking account it was winning with 3:1 scoreline.

What is even more dramatic from today's game from Fenerbahce view is that it has conceded all of the goals from very simple mistakes with its defenders as it has conceded all goals from them. During 1st goal Roman Neustadtner has made very unbelievable mistake for defender by assisting ball to Umut Bulut, while Luis Neto has scored an own goal without any pressure and at 3rd goal with Hakan Ali Kaldirim needless foul to Deniz Turec. Taking account that both goals has come when Fenerbahce was winning with 3:1 scoreline has also provided that their didnt have enough focus towards game and became too certain at winning game at that moment. As it was mentioned at our blog preview of the game it was important for both attack and defence to play top level football but Fenerbahce defence has once again shown very poor performance and has lost important 2 points at fight for top of the table and does have serious issues right now, which are not easily to be solved. Positive aspects could be shown a good character at bring from 1:0 to 3:1 leadership but after that its only criticism.

Kayserispor meanwhile has got an important point from one of the big teams at the Super League and has put them at the top section of the table and allows them to carry on aiming high for at least until mid-season break. Kayserispor also showed great character of not giving up game after 3:1 scoreline.

Fenerbahce defence once again shows worrying performances and does look like it needs to solve its defence issues until midseason if it wants to have any chances to end season with league title and not repeat fate of last season.

Trabzonspor players start believing that their can perform high level football again.

As been stated at our blog in yesterday entry, Trabzonspor has shown without doubt its best performance against league leaders as it has managed to win 2:1 scoreline and has dominated game from start to an end, carrying its upper hand against Istanbul giants in last 3 seasons.

It was clearly that nearly appointed head coach Riza Calimbay has provided great motivation for its players and also focus to providing top level performane since losing to Yeni Malatyaspor last week. Even through Galatasaray head coach Igor Tudor has complained following game about style of play of Trabzonspor, this has mainly been due of fact that this game didnt suit himself. Which just proves how Calimbay greatly has been prepared to game and has used Galatasaray weaknesses, an area which usually brings wins, to its own advantage. In addition to that Trabzonspor players, likely also due of win against Corlu Belediyespor in Turkish Cup, has brought high self-confidence to the team which was visible clearly by the side on the game. Trabzonspor still needs to carry on this performance as it is still 11 points behind league leaders and need to do many thing for to get to upper hand, but yesterday game has shown that mentally their are in right track.

Win against Galatasaray could easily turn out to be a turning point to the team and we would see how it would perform against Kayserispor during 11th week.

Galatasaray domination at the league has been ended in last 2 games. 

In other side of the coin, we are seeing a drop of the performance from Galatasaray during this last 2 weeks as those games has been seen as most crucial games. Galatasaray has only gained 1 point from last week and against Trabzonspor has lost its 1st game and are staying leaders due of cushions it has created in previous 8 games.

As was remembered, Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman has stated that Galatasaray does go to difficult period in its fixture and this seems to be coming true for now as team needs to show reaction for last 2 games. One of the points is that, and area which was discussed during this season, is that Igor Tudor does have problems at changing things when their not going well during the game and even through it could been stated that Galatasaray are getting tired and hence drop of points, this is critical period for them. One of the criticism is to substitute at 2nd half its best players at the squad Bafetembi Gomis which has affected negative to the team despite of argument that their did find goal and has created more chances. Galatasaray does show some worrying performance lately and its dominance seems to be over in this period of league.

Prior to national team break, Galatasaray would play against Genclerbirligi on 3rd November and would aim for a win or otherwise it might have pretty nervous national team break with aiming to solve issues which are present at the team.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
Fenerbahce 3:3 Kayserispor

In other news:

- - Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir has been appointed at Champions League 4th week game between Tottenham Hotspur and Real Madrid.
- Turkish referee Halis Ozkahya has been appointed to Europa League 4th week game between FCSB and Hapoel Beer-Sheva.

- UEFA has announced referee for Champions League 4th week game between Besiktas and Monaco as Paolo Tagliavento.

- UEFA has announced referee of Europa League 4th week game between Basaksehirspor and Hoffenheim as Harald Lechner.

- UEFA has announced referee of Europa League 4th week game between Salzburg and Konyaspor as Paulo Mazzoleni.
- Sports Security Committee has announced that it wont allow "power bank" chargers to enter to the stadiums during games.

- Levante has loaned Villarreal player Enes Unal until end of the season.

- Galatasaray academy player Selcuk Ozturk has signed professional contract with his club.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: I didnt decide yet if I would run for CEO election in 2019. There is still time to decide about it.Our aim for this season is to get 3rd title back-to-back this season and be successful at Champions League.For teams at Super League to play against us is good opportunity to show themselves to outside world.Meanwhile, Champions League for our players is great opportunity to show our capability outside world.JeremainLens is still getting adapting and he needs to prove himself but he would stay at team for 4 years.

- Trabzonspor player Olcay Sahan and Galatasaray player Sofiane Feghouli had heated argument at changing room after red card.

- Fenerbahce supporter has been taken into custody following Super League game against Kayserispor for swearing to policeman.

-Goztepe players Kosanovic, Leo Schewechlen, Peybernes and Ghilas will be able to play against Besiktas during Super League 11th week.

- Besiktas has requested 20 million pounds from Newcastle United for Cenk Tosun.

- Newcastle United plans to offer 20 million euro to Besiktas player Cenk Tosun.

- Fenerbahce has offered 1.5 million euro to transfer Zenit player Luis Neto but club has declined and requested 2.5 million euro.

What happened in Turkish football today? 29/10/2017

Riza Calimbay is only coach to know how to play tactically against Galatasaray.

Trabzonspor has provided first taste of defeat to Galatasaray during this season during Super League 10th week game with getting well-deserved victory with 2:1 scoreline where it has shown much better organised and controlled game compare to their opponents.

Trabzonspor has come out to the game with aiming to beat league leaders Galatasaray at today's game and has provided an attacking football, the game which was more we used to see from Galatasaray.
One of the interesting aspects is that Galatasaray has lost in total of 7 points during this season out of which came from current Trabzonspor head coach Riza Calimbay as he also managed to draw against Galatasaray when he was coaching Antalyaspor. It needs to be stated meanwhile that Trabzonspor has by mile its best result from this season building up from Corlu Belediyespor 6:0 win during Turkish Cup game. It needs to be stated that with Trabzonspor providing much more attacking football especially during 1st half where it has created 10 chances while their opponents didnt had single shot. Even through Galatasaray has also improved its performance during 2nd half, Trabzonspor has shown much more attacking football with finding two crucial goals.

Meanwhile, Galatasaray as stated above has once again has provided pretty dissapointing result against Riza Calimbay and it wasnt able to provide a very attacking football. Galatasaray performance did become not in same level as it did during last season and to some extend Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman that Galatasaray would reduce its performances. Galatasaray has lost its 1st game during this season without having control and attacking football during today's game, which it has provided during last week. Meanwhile, it became clear also that head coaches start solving Galatasaray style of play, weaknesses and strengths and work on that during game. Right now
Galatasaray doesnt have an alternative plan which used to work until last week but during last 2 games it wasnt able to win, which means Galatasaray might have issues in upcoming issues. Meanwhile, 2 red cards from Badou N'diaye and Sofiane Feghouli shows lack of interest of the players.

Trabzonspor has deserved today's win with focussing into attacking football and also finding solution of strengths and weaknesses of Galatasaray as it does look like Riza Calimbay is only coach right now to know how to play against this team.

Besiktas still lacks full concentrationt to Super League despite of win

Besiktas player Alvaro Negredo goal at the 87th minute has played an important role both to himself and to the team as mostly important he has prevented team to losing points against Alanyaspor during Super League 10th week game, making it almost 5th game back to back.

It does need to be stated that even through Besiktas has managed to win with 2:1 scoreline and has dominated for most part of the 2nd half, their didnt play a very good football for most of the game. It does look that Besiktas cant provide same amount of effort and concentration towards Super League as their do to the Champions League and with them providing good performance in Europe it would be not right to criticise them much but the team is in crises at Super League. This could be mainly psychological as their aware without wanting how important is Champions League. Still this win against Alanyaspor could provide an important motivation for Super League and change its way of performance until winter break. There is also some worrying news that Gary Medel and Jeremain Lens didnt want to enter game when Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes calls them for substitution.

Right now Besiktas without doubt would focus towards game against Monaco on 1st November at which if their manage to win at home would certainly make it certain to get to the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Fenerbahce aims to play perfect game against Kayserispor. 

Fenerbahce would be meeting with Kayserispor during Super League 10th week game as it would be aiming to carry on its improvement with its performance and looking for a win against one of the teams which are at the form right now.

As it is known, Fenerbahce main aim right now is to regain its lost point from this season so far and aim to reduce its 8-point deficit from Galatasaray until mid-season break. Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman slowly become recognising weaknesses and strengths of his team and as Galatasaray game has shown it has solved defence issues with a team but would now aim to solve also its attacking and find balance of good performance by both sides. Stating that Kayserispor are having very good season so far and finding goals and would come out wiht good chance to dissapoint Fenerbahce at the game so its hard for Fenerbahce to call favourite this time when both teams would meet. But if Aykut Kocaman would be able to recieve the best performance from his players and right tactical game the win and even comfortable win will not be seen as huge surprise also.

Fenerbahce main aim is to find good balance with attackers and defenders and when it does it would be able to get good win either tomorrow or when this solution would be found.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
Konyaspor 1:0 Osmanlispor
Karabukspor 0:1 Sivasspor
Bursaspor 4:0 Antalyaspor
Trabzonspor 2:1 Galatasaray

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
20:00 Fenerbahce - Kayserispor

In other news:

- Besiktas lawyer Safak Mahmutyazicioglu: Caner Erkin ban is given through reaction and is not lawful. Its our issue we going to arbitration.

- Bursaspor aims to extend contract with its player Pablo Batalla for 1 more year until end of the season.

- Arsenal are interested to transfer Stuttgart player Berkay Ozcan.

What happened in Turkish football today? 28/10/2017

Alvaro Negredo has found 1st goal at team and brought win to Besiktas.

After not being able to win games for 4 weeks back to back, Besiktas has got an important win against Alanyaspor during 10th week game with Alvaro Negredo scoring his 1st goal at the 87th minute which led him to find long-awaited goal at most critical moment and hence led team to win game.

In fact, with how game has been developing and Besiktas showing an attacking and dominating football at the front, the way Besiktas was making those attacks did look like that it would lose other 2 points at the league as Alanyaspor did show organised defence against Besiktas. Besiktas especially during 1st half didnt show tempo which was awaiting from team team during today's  game and hence did have difficulty to dominate game and to some extend during 1st half Alanyaspor did provide much difficult game but quite naturally with playing against tough opponent has led to defend which to some extend has helped Besiktas. One of the most important aspects of the game, Negredo has found an important goal to the team but also to himself as from now on he would feel more comfortable at attacking areas for the upcoming games. Only downside which could be seen is that Besiktas has  become tired prior to Champions League game against Monaco but since it has won game it would also go to that important game with a win and also ending bad luck period for Negredo.

As been stated, despite of making too much defence during 2nd half against Besiktas but Alanyaspor did show good performance against Besiktas and carries on showing impressive game since winning Trabzonspor from returning 3:0 loss. It needs to carry on this performance in upcoming games.

Therefore without doubt Besiktas has taken two positive aspects from game which are to win game and also end bad luck for Alvaro Negredo. Those factors would raise motivation prior to crucial Monaco game at Champions League.

Galatasaray does come out as favourites but it wont be easy against Trabzonspor.

Galatasaray would be aiming to get into winning ways again as it would be meeting with Trabzonspor during Super League 10th week game which promises to be a tough game for Istanbul side despite of tough days of their opponents.

As long-term followers of Turkish football would be knowing Trabzonspor performance against Istanbul giants, especially at its home has always provided top football and hence Galatasaray would have tough time. Stating that in sense of mentally and organisationally Galatasaray would be coming as strong favourite and if their wont repeat same mistakes as their did against Fenerbahce by change formation and style of play normally their wouldnt have tough times. It is reported also that Selcuk Inan would be starting game very likely and would have a good chance to mark his mark against his old club and show fans and also head coach Igor Tudor how important he is to the team still. Galatasaray player Bafetembi Gomis meanwhile would certainly aim to find a goal after not scoring last week against Fenerbahce.

Galatasaray would come out as favourite but as long their would play their own football their would be able to win game but Trabzonspor would give them tough time at game.

Trabzonspor needs to believe it can beat Galatasaray.

In other hand, Trabzonspor does come out as struggling team against Galatasaray and low morale and even through it did manage to win against Corum Belediyespor with 6:0 scoreline and regain high amount of motivation it will tough time due of different levels of opponents.

Trabzonspor as whole team and head coach Riza Calimbay does see Galatasaray game as very important opportunity to get huge motivational boost which is been missing at the team more or less for last 2 seasons and also allow to solve some organisational issues. In fact, to some extend Trabzonspor would be aiming to improve its performance at the game tomorrow and not for a win, and if it plays very good game quite naturally would get a win likely. However, Trabzonspor would have tough time as Galatasaray would aim for a win and to some extend role of its fans would play an important role at the game. It does have however an issue at the forward as Burak Yilmaz and Ndiaye are injured while Hugo Rodallega will not be able to play due of red card against Corum Belediyespor. Trabzonspor should believe its own strength and see game as new beginning for them.

Galatasaray would come out as favourites but getting into the mood with trying to improve themselves to be top team still , it should believe it can provide huge dissapointment to Galatasaray.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
Genclerbirligi 0:1 Yeni Malatyaspor
Basaksehirspor 2:1 Akhisarspor
Alanyaspor 1:2 Besiktas

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
14:00 Konyaspor - Osmanlispor
14:00 Karabukspor - Sivasspor
16:30 Bursaspor - Antalyaspor
19:30 Trabzonspor - Galatasaray

In other news:

- Central Referee Committee CEO Yusuf Namoglu: VAR results would be going to IFAB from now on. We will wait when their allow to go online.Today tests went well we would carry on in upcoming weeks. We aim also get assist from outside

- Cuneyt Cakir: The video of game comes 0,4 seconds delay to our screen. We made decision today in one position within 10 seconds.I hope we would be able to use online in near future. We are as referees want for the system to be introduced.

- Basaksehirspor CEO Goksel Gumusdag: Basaksehirspor is not planned to be sold. We did have talks with Chinese businessman some time before.VAR system is great option. It would be tested in Turkish Cup. We aim for 2nd half of season.: If it wont happen we would aim for next season latest.VAR would solve many questions in future.

- Fenerbahce has announced its debt for 1st January-30th September 2017 as 300,047, 719 TL.

- Trabzonspor has announced its debt since 31st August as 777,616,514 TL.

- Galatasaray has signed professional contract with youth player Furkan Korkut.

- Fenerbahce has extended contract with its player Alper Potuk until 2022 with 2.2 million euro salary.

- Besiktas players Gary Medel and Jeremain Lens didnt want to enter game as substitute during Super League 10th week game against Alanyaspor

- Fenerbahce administrator Sekip Mosturoglu: Caner Erkin ban should been 4 games, 6 is too much. But even if their complain it wont change.Reducing 2 game ban to 1 for Ryan Babel is big mistake, it should have stayed 2.

- Trabzonspor player Hugo Rodallega:Normally I am calm person and saying to each other.But he called me f***ing black. I didnt control myself. He could have said it as things didnt go well, and he got angry. Overall, there is no racism in country.

- Galatasaray player Nigel de Jong plans to send complaint to FIFA for not recieving his 2.5 million euro salary on time for 3 months.

- Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie is expected to recovery from his injury in 3 weeks time.

- Fenerbahce are interested to loan Anderlecht player Nicolae Stanciu.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Nimes player Umut Bozok.

What happened in Turkish football today? 27/10/2017

Besiktas aims to start winning start at Super League.

Besiktas without doubt would be aiming to win its 1st game after losing points in last 4 games as it would be meeting with Alanyaspor during Super League 10th week game and does have an advantage at not playing game at weekday while Alanyaspor had game at Turkish Cup.

However, there is psychological issue with Besiktas as it would play an important game against Monaco on 1st November at Champions League 4th week game and as it been seen before at Super League, teams tend to lose points before Champions League important games. In fact, this unlucky period for Besiktas at domestic league has started prior to Leipzig game. However, it is known that players are focussing to game differently as their are now 8 points behind league leaders Galatasaray and aware that their need urgently to get win not only tomorrow but also back-to-back at the league. Stating that even through Alanyaspor doesnt seem to be big opponent it is coming with high motivation and self-belief as it got very good results in recent weeks including great comeback against Trabzonspor from 3:0 scoreline. Therefore. it is certain that Besiktas needs to give their best if it wants to win game.

Therefore, this game is more important for its aims at Super League and start getting points rather than what we tend to refer usually for Champions League game as their had shown concentration at two tournaments is very different. Besiktas are coming as favourite tomorrow, but its not that straight-forward.

TFF will add lip-reading as evidence from TV broadcasters for using swearing. 

Turkish Football Federation has made an important change at guidelines of Professional Football Disciplinary Committee as it has announced that reading lips from official broadcaster of tournaments would be considered as evidence when making decisions.

This discussion about should this count as evidence or not has been discussed for long but without doubt behaviour of Caner Erkin during Super League 9th week game against Basaksehirspor has become turning point as TFF CEO Yildirim Demioren has stated yesterday that this would be taken as evidence and today TFF has officially stated that rule has been modified with including this. The aim is to reduce swearing used especially towards referee during the games but in country like Turkey it could unfortunately just raise amount of ban and fines to players and clubs. It might work in the future but without doubt it would get long time but it is on right track. It does need to be added that to some extend TV broadcasters might also focus to its too much and hence raising amount of foul language at TV for people who can read lips but probably RTUK would close eyes for that as it is done for common good at short.

This is important change at regulation but as been stated would that help to reduce amount of swearing the time would show.

Premier League teams are interested to buy Badou N'diaye

It has become reported that number of Premier Leagues clubs scouts would be visiting Super League 10th week game betwen Galatasaray and Trabzonspor to view Badou N'diaye and aiming to transfer him at near future.

The teams which are reported to be interested with him are Leicester City, Newcastle United, West Ham United among some and it was known that when he was playing at Osmanlispor he did recieve number of interest from European clubs with his mainly performance at Europa League last season. Even through Ndiaye didnt have direct affect towards scoreline he shown great performance at defensive midfielding position which without doubt has led him to provide top performance. Meanwhile, it is known that Galatasaray also showing good interest with him to sell as it might make profit from his sale and might even sell him double prize from what he was purchased in this summer transfer window.

Badou N'diaye meanwhile would start more forward against Trabzonspor and might show good performance at the game which could make his transfer to one of the Premier Leagues team more likely.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
Kasimpasa 3:1 Goztepe

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
14:00 Genclerbirligi - Yeni Malatyaspor
16:30 Basaksehirspor - Akhisarspor
19:30 Alanyaspor - Besiktas

In other news:

- Turkish Cup 5th round draw will take place on 2nd November.

- Trabzonspor will have administrative board meeting on 28th October.

- Fenerbahce will have administrative board meeting on 28th October.

- TFF has announced that VAR referees for offline games will be: Cuneyt Cakir and Baris Simsek for Basaksehirspor and Akhisarspor game Bulent Yildirim and Koray Gencler for Bursaspor and Antalyaspor and Mete Kalkavan and Alper Ulusoy for Fenerbahce and Kayserispor game

- Trabzonspor financial coordinator assistant Fatih Vardoglu has resigned from his position.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: Our player Caner Erkin is well-known player. He had done this behaviour before, but he never recieved such ban.I dont support action by Caner Erkin but 6-game ban is too much. Rules has been changed now.We are club is not something to test about it. Rules change frequently.

- Alanyaspor football representative Metin Ozcilik: After Caner Erkin has recieved 6 game ban, Ryan Babel ban has reduced to 2 games from 1.Everywhere its 2 games. When clubs like us complain, we recieve decline.

- Trabzonspor player Dame N'doye has become injured during Turkish Cup game against Corum Belediyespor.

- Bursaspor player Yusuf Erdogan will not be able to play for 1 month due of injury.

- Galatasaray player Garry Rodrigues has informed team that he feels ready to play Super League 10th week game against Trabzonspor.

- Alanyaspor players Remy Riou and Fabrice Nsakala has got food poison and currently taken to hospital.

- Flamengo are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Fernando.

- Villarreal head coach Javier Calleja: Its true that Levante wants to buy Enes Unal but we need to think about it. It is an option though.

- West Bromwich Albion are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Josef de Souza.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Tigres player Gignac.

- Galatasaray are interested to loan Villarreal player Enes Unal and Roma player Cengiz Under.

What happened in Turkish football today? 26/10/2017

Corum Belediyespor denies any racist comments towards Rodallega.

Trabzonspor has gained an important motivational boost prior to Super League 10th week game against Galatasaray, after winning Corum Belediyespor with 6:0 scoreline at the Turkish Cup however the game has been mainly dominated by Hugo Rodallega.

Hugo Rodallega has recieved red card with head butting to Corum Belediyespor player Yakup Kayis who he has stated has given some racist statements about him even through both club and player are denying this action. In fact, Kayis has stated that he would open criminal case regarding of defamation from Hugo Rodallega. During today's press conference by Trabzonspor head coach Riza Calimbay, he has stated that he doesnt believe that there was any racist comments and would give punishment towards Rodallega if its not case. Therefore, there is belief by many that Rodallega has used this racist allegation with an excuse of red card even through it does raise question why would Rodallega do a such an action. Apart of that, Trabzonspor has got an important win for Galatasaray game in self-motivating manner prior to Galatasaray game.

This issue of head butting by Rodallega does seem to be taken as discussion in following days and as always our page would follow developments.

Caner Erkin has recieved 6-game ban for his action towards referee.

Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced its decision regarding of Besiktas player Caner Erkin action towards referee Metin Kalkavan using foul language with total of 6-game ban.

One of the most awaiting decisions from Disciplinary Committee has been its announcement regarding of one of the most talked events as Caner Erkin after recieving yellow card during Basaksehirspor at Super League 10th week game has used foul language towards referee of game Metin Kalkavan. The decision has been come to 2 game for anti-sportmanship behavior and 4-games for insult he has given at the moment. Meanwhile, Turkish Football Federation administrator Husnu Bilger has stated that this decision has not been come from video analysis but did state that referees need to write better reports after game so it would be easier for them to make decisions for committee. This ban could be seen very harsh as it would be until almost end of 1st half of the season and also means Caner Erkin would be missing game against Galatasaray during Super League 14th week but to some it might not be seen as not enough.

Caner Erkin need to learn valuable lesson for this ban so are others, but Erkin has been known to give such reaction before hands and it is undoubetful that he would learn much from this action due of low control of his actions.

Youness Belhanda performance is way before team expectation

Galatasaray player Youness Belhanda has recieved high number of criticism for his poor performance at his club including during Fenerbahce game at Super League 9th week game.

In fact, Belhanda statistics goes against him as he has shown worst start compare to previous position 10 players as he is only player to score 1 goal since 1996 transfer of Gheorghe Hagi during 1st 10 games. Number of Galatasaray administrators according to report does feel that Belhanda doesnt satisfy their needs as he became highly paid transfer during summer transfer window at the team. It is even reported that team would be looking for alternative for him during mid-season transfer break as their believe his performance does team to get even stronger position even through their are leaders. Meanwhile, until transfer window the club would be busy at providing motivation towards player hoping Belhanda would improve his performance.

One thing is certain is that Belhanda didnt manage to fill space of Wesley Sneijder and his role at the team might be going through at team and might even pushed to substitution if he doesnt improve in near future.

Results:
Turkish Cup, 4th round:
Yeni Altindag Belediyespor 0:0 (pen: 2:4) Bursaspor
Yesil Bursa 1:2 Kayserispor
Konya Anadolu Selcukspor 0:1 Boluspor
Giresunspor 2:1 Menemen Belediyespor
Manisaspor 1:0 Hatayspor
Karabukspor 3:1 Keciorenspor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 10th week:
20:00 Kasimpasa - Goztepe

In other news:

- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines and bans:
- Besiktas, Basaksehirspor, Fenerbahce has recieved 15,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans 
- Besiktas player Caner Erkin has recieved 4 game ban and 17,500 TL fine for insult + 2 games and 26,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship action
- Trabzonspor has recieved 45,000 TL fine and blockage of field for behaviour of fans and it happening 2nd time ths season.
- Galatasaray has recieved 250,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans and blockage of section of stadium from fans for 3 games
- Galatasaray administrator Hasan Tankaya has recieved 3-month deprivation of rights for anti-sportmanship statements.
- Galatasaray administrator Ural Akyuzum has recieved 30-day deprivation of rights and 30,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship statements.
- Fenerbahce has recieved 75,000 TL fine for 4th time behaviour of fans and blockage of stadium.

-  Besiktas: Our club would send complaint to arbitration court regarding of 6-game ban of Caner Erkin from Professional Football Disciplinary Committee.

- Arbitration court has changed Professional Football Disciplinary Committee decision of Besiktas player Ryan Babel ban from 2-games to 1-game.

- TFF administrator Husnu Gureli: This security meeting for 2 days has been asked for Security General Management. We will discuss security in league games and what could be done about it. We believe law at sports and security needs some revision. We encourage clubs to take place in discussion.There are talks about how punishments should be done include arrests. We need to make those clear.

- TFF organised assistant referee mid-term seminar has been ended in Istanbul

- Konyaspor has signed 1.5 year contract with coach Mehmet Ozdilek for 1.5 years.

- SadattinSaran is planning to announce his candidacy for TFF CEO position.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek has decided to become CEO candidate for election taking place on May 2018.

- Antalyaspor head coach Riza Calimbay assistant coach will be Mehmet Yilmaz.

- Turkish National Team head coach Mircea Lucescu: Fatih Terim has build a great team but we hoped to use experience at last 2 games.We are planning to use youth player under-21 more often. We would use Altinordu players.We need to have players who play at their teams. The ones who dont come ready to this team.I am calling trainers to give importance to youth academy to build team.

- Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta: We are as team need something to heat up this team. We need to get some good results.1st results with Ersun Yanal were good. However, Akhisar and Alanya showed that there is motivation and togetherness issue at the team.

- Roma head coach Eusebio Di Francesco: There is language gap with Cengiz Under, he doesnt understand his role much at team during game.He needs to improve his move to the goal, but he is only 20 years old. He would improve.

- Fenerbahce player Mehmet Ekici will not be able to play against Kayserispor during Super League 10th week game due of injury.

- Fenerbahce plans to start with Roberto Soldado during Super League 10th week game against Kayserispor.

- Besiktas has signed mutual agreement protocol with Beylikduzuspor.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Alanyaspor player Emre Akbaba.

- Besiktas has offered 2-year extension to its player Oguzhan Ozyakup with 15-20 million euro release clause.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Juventus player Kwadwo Asamoah.

- Galatasaray has declined transfer offer from Newcastle United for Fernando Muslera.

- Milan are interested to transfer Besiktas player Cenk Tosun.

What happened in Turkish football today? 25/10/2017

Trabzonspor has got an important win against Corum in sense of motivation.

Trabzonspor has recieved a comfortable win at Turkish Cup at 4th round with 6:0 scoreline against 3rd league side Corum Belediyespor with playing its main squad despite of 2nd squad as has been expected prior to game.

It was important as has been stated in our preview section at yesterday blog for Trabzonspor to show confident performance and result against Corum Belediyespor due of its poor recent performance and even more importantly prior to Super League 10th week game against Galatasaray. And Trabzonspor just had shown this as it has won its weak opponents with 6:0 scoreline dominating whole game. It was also crucial for goals to come from players which would be playing an important role for future of the team as 2 goals each has come from Hugo Rodallega and N'doye and  and also from Oganyi Onazi  and Bondinga, who is meanwhile expected to take place of Rodallega at game against Galatasaray. Trabzonspor only negative side is direct red card which has been recieved by Rodallega and he would now miss game on 29th October against Galatasaray. Still an important win for a team
to regain its motivational boost.

Corum Belediyespor did come out as low chances to bring surprising result and with its performance it did allow for Trabzonspor to play its own football which led them to lose game in such scoreline. Only thing which has taken from Corlu Belediyespor from game is to enjoy game and get some experience.

Trabzonspor has got now much needed motivation boost prior to Galatasaray game and would come to that game with strong self-belief at least.

Besiktas player Caner Erkin needs to be punished for swearing to Mete Kalkavan. 

One of the most talking points following Super League 9th week games has been behaviour of Besiktas player Caner Erkin who has used foul language towards referee of their game game against Basaksehirspor Metin Kalkavan.

Following recieving yellow card following foul Besiktas player has used foul language towards his mother and should been given direct red card but Kalkavan has stated at his referee report that he didnt hear it and hence didnt provide following action towards Erkin. However, Professional Disciplinary Committee would talk about following actions and would look like to fine and possibly ban him for up to 4 games. However, even more important is how would his club Besiktas, which shows itself as polite team, would act as it goes against everything whole image and belief of the club. It is expected that he would recieve seperate fine from team if Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman believes into teams slogan. It is important to note also that Caner Erkin is known to show such behaviour before hand in his career. Therefore, he does need to recieve fine both from disciplinary committee and his club.

It is important to send message to player that this is not behaviour and best way to do it its to send in harshest way as possible.

Konyaspor has made an agreement to appoint coach Mehmet Ozdilek.

Following terminating contract with its head coach Mustafa Resit Okcay and having ongoing negotiations with number of the coaches, Konyaspor has made an agreement to appoint head coach Mehmet Ozdilek.

It needs to be reminded once again with season going into way, and in fact being on early days, it is specifically hard to find good head coach during this period so therefore Konyaspor did have limited amount of options at the hand. However, it could be very arguably if Mehmet Ozdilek is great option as unfortunately his coaching performance is pretty far from footballing career at Besiktas and he wasnt able to have any reasonable noticeable achievements. Coming to the team which are low at the table and needs to get urgently good results both from domestic and Europe would led Mehmet Ozdilek as he needs to motivate players and also aim to let players provide maximum performance which their had lacked since Super Cup game. Job for Mehmet Ozdilek is not easy and its questionable if he would be able to solve those issues.

Stating that Mehmet Ozdilek does in same time need to be given chance and hopefully he would prove this blog wrong but previous achievements of him doesnt show good signs unfortunately.

Results:

Turkish Cup, 4th round:

Eyupspor 4:2 Gumushanespor

Batman Petrolspor 2:1 Denizlispor

Ofspor 1:3 Yeni Malatyaspor

Istanbulspor 3:3 Afyonspor

Orhangazi Belediyespor 3:0 Sanliurfaspor

Corum Belediyespor 0:6 Trabzonspor

Elazigspor 0:1 Sivas Belediyespor

Genclerbirligi 3:0 Tuzlaspor

Sivasspor 3:1 Kizilcabolukspor

Bucaspor 1:2 Amedspor

Gazisehir Gaziantep Belediyespor 1:2 Ankara Demirspor

Buyuksehir Belediye Erzurumspor 2:0 Tire 1922spor

Osmanlispor 5:0 Karagumruk

Schedule:

Turkish Cup, 4th round:

13:00 Yeni Altindag Belediyespor - Bursaspor

14:30 Yesil Bursa - Kayserispor

16:30 Konya Anadolu Selcukspor - Boluspor

17:00 Giresunspor - Menemen Belediyespor

18:30 Manisaspor - Hatayspor

20:30 Karabukspor - Keciorengucu

In other news:

- Besiktas players Talisca and CanerErkin has given their defence to police for events at Super League Fenerbahce game

- Court has started investigation towards Besiktas player Caner Erkin due of using foul language towards referee during Basaksehirspor game.

- Genclerbirligi vice-CEO has been selected administrators Murat Ongelen and Osman Kacar while spokesman is Aykut Akalin.

- Fenerbahce player Vincent Janssen, Besiktas players Ryan Babel and Jeremain Lens and Basaksehirspor player Eliaja Elia has been selected to Dutch National Team for international friendly games in November.

- Corum Belediyespor player Yakup Kayis has stated that he didnt use racist comments to Hugo Rodallega and will open case against him.

- Galatasaray player Serdar Aziz are expected to start at Super League 10th week game against Trabzonspor.

- Wolfsburg are interested to transfer Besiktas player Cenk Tosun.

- Galatasaray plans to give defence for possible ban of supporters during Fenerbahce game reminding actions done by Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel during Super League 4th week game against Basaksehirspor.

- Fenerbahce plans to transfer right back player during mid-season transfer window.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Koln player Jhon Cordoba.

What happened in Turkish football today? 24/10/2017

Besiktas are lacking to show same concentration to Super League as their do towards Champions League. 

Both Besiktas and Basaksehirspor didnt use its opportunity during Super League 9th week game against each other to gain an advantage following loss of points by Galatasaray and Fenerbahce on day before as game has ended with 1:1 scoreline.

Even through Basaksehirspor did look to be better organised at the game and providing much better attacking football it still had lacked number of dangerous attacks and until 1st goal scored by Kerim Frei during 87th minute it was pretty dull game. Besiktas meanwhile still shows two different performances comparing to Super League and Champions League as their seem to be lacking into getting into same concentration as their had failed to win game for last 4 weeks and now are 8 points behind Galatasaray. However, it needs to be stated that reaction shown by Besiktas following conceding goal does show some positive aspects. There is also good chance that Besiktas are emotionally and physically tired from Champions League and more than choosing game its the lack of concentration which happen without want of the players.

Besiktas does provide poor performance right now at Super League but their have chance to turn around and with not having game during this midweek could aim for a win against Alanyaspor this weekend.

Trabzonspor would aim to get motivational boost with game against Corum Belediyespor.

Trabzonspor is first team among big 4 teams who would start its campaign at Turkish Cup as it would be meeting with Corum Belediyespor during 4th round game and would be aiming for a win to gain its motivational boost.

In fact, this game could be very important for them as their are going through very difficult period and prior to Super League 10th week game against Galatasaray does need some good news both to head coach Riza Calimbay and also whole team. Even through it is expected that Trabzonspor would play mainly with reserves the result itself could be enough to motivate players. Stating that Trabzonspor did show some surprising results at the recent history and also not going to the game with best squad does provide small hope for Corum Belediyespor to get surprising result as their would play their best game for certain. Trabzonspor are expected though to show an attacking football and mainly aim to get a result which would motivate them for Galatasaray and rest of the season.

So, as mentioned Trabzonspor would be coming out as confident favourite but what makes domestic cup competitions exciting is possibility for surprise and who knows Corum Belediyespor would be able to show this surprising result.

Konyaspor players played below their capacity hence sacking of Mustafa Resit Akcay.

Konyaspor has become newest club to terminate its contract with its head coach Mustafa Resit Akcay due of poor results shown by the team recently both at league and Europa League.

Appointment of Mustafa Resit Akcay promised a lot with his good performance at the Osmanlispor at recent years and his team in fact did start pretty well with winning Besiktas at Super Cup but he wasnt able to carry on top performance as seen progressed. It could been argued that fans ban which was given to team following Super Cup game has affected negatively but Mustafa Resit Akcay did have an issue to get a maximum performance from his team at Super League while to all respect results to Konyaspor results at Europa League were not that surprising. Therefore Akcay even taking account into quality of the team at his hand did provide pretty poor performance even through it could been argued that he could been given some time to work on team but position of team and results did put worry into team.

Konyaspor who now looking for his replacement  would seem to have tough time at motivating players once again as their are showing not great performance and below their capacity for sure.

Results:
Turkish Cup, 4th round:
Sariyer 2:2 (pen: 1:3) Adana Demirspor
Etismesgut Belediyespor 0:1 Antalyaspor
Altinordu 0:1 Kars 36spor
Kasimpasa 5:1 Nigde Belediyespor
Alanyaspor 2:0 Edirnespor
Fethiyespor 1:2 Adanaspor
Kahramanraspor 1:0 Rizespor
Akhisarspor 6:0 24 Erzicanspor

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, 4th round:
13:00 Eyupspor - Gumushanespor
13:00 Batman Petrolspor - Denizlispor
13:00 Ofspor - Yeni Malatyaspor
13:00 Istanbulspor - Afyonspor
13:00 Orhangazi Belediyespor - Sanliurfaspor
14:30 Corum Belediyespor - Trabzonspor
16:30 Elazigspor - Sivas Belediyespor
17:00 Genclerbirligi - Tuzlaspor
18:30 Sivasspor - Kizilcabolukspor
19:00 Bucaspor - Amedspor
19:00 Gazisehir Gaziantepspor - Ankara Demirspor
19:00 Buyuksehir Belediye Erzurumspor - Tire 1922spor
20:30 Osmanlispor - Karagumrukspor

In other news:

- Turkish Football Federation has announced referrals to Professional Football Disciplinary Committee:
- Genclerbirligi head coach Mesut Bakkal has been referred for anti-sportmanship statements.
- Trabzonspor has been referred for behaviour of fans.
- Galatasaray and Fenerbahce has been referredfor events at the field and fans behaviour.
- Galatasaray administrators Hasan Ali Tankaya and Ural Akyuzum has been referred for anti-sportmanship statements.
- Besiktas and Basaksehirspor has been referred for not following guidelines.
- Besiktas player Caner Erkin has been referred for antisportmanship behaviour and actions.

- TFF would have trials of VAR with offline system during Super League 10th week games: Kasimpasa-Goztepe, Basaksehirspor-Akhisarspor and Fenerbahce - Kayserispor.

- Super League 9th week game between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce referee Cuneyt Cakir has recieved 7.8 points for performance.

- Galatasaray doesnt want for referee Cuneyt Cakir to be appointed to their games once again.

- Galatasaray expects to move into 10th position its player Sofiane Feghouli during Super League 10th week game against Trabzonspor.

- Trabzonspor plans to provide fine to its player Jose Sosa for red card against Yeni Malatyaspor during Super League 9th week game.

- Besiktas tries to solve 30% transfer share issue with Arsenal for Oguzhan Ozyakup before extending contract with him.

What happened in Turkish football today? 23/10/2017

Last 5 minutes provided more exciting at Besiktas and Basaksehirspor game than 90 minutes. 

Super League 9th week game between Besiktas and Basaksehirspor, among inter-continental derby game yesterday has been among one of the most anticipated games during this week and has made even important following  0:0 scoreline from yesterday. However, both sides didnt use an opportunity to use this advantage as game ended with 1:1 scoreline.

Besiktas carries on poor performance at the Super League with recent performance as it is uncapable to show high level performance which it done during Champions League. Even through amount of dangerous chances has been pretty limted with both sides, Basaksehirspor has played more controlled and organised football. Besiktas did have trouble to raise its tempo and quite opposite has provided very physical football with high number of fouls which has shown their nervousness and lack of concentration. In fact, the last 5 minutes of the game has provided more dangerous attacks than 1st  90 minutes. With Kerim Frei what looked was a winning goal with very high level and beautiful goal but Dusko Tosic equaliser has provided a great header during corner kick as game was ending and became main hero of the game. Besiktas in overall did look like very nervous side which has led them to get high number of yellow cards.

Basaksehirspor would feel like it has lost opportunity win game as it has found goal at 89th minutes and had provided more organised football compare to Besiktas despite of not having much dangerous chances during the game. Basaksehirspor does aim to stay at the top of the league and keep its aims to fight for league title during this season.

In overall, the game has been mainly dominated by nervous game of Besiktas and high yellow cards and carries on providing an image that it seems trouble to raise its performance at same level as it did at Champions League.

Galatasaray had complaints to Cuneyt Cakir but he didnt take sides

Super League 9th week game between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce didnt provide high level game as was expected prior to game and has been mainly been dominated by referee decisions with Galatasaray showing their complaint even through it could been argued that questionable decisions has been done to both sides.

It does need to be stated that even through has got draw which right now doesnt provide much damage to Galatasaray due of its position at the table, it did provide one of the worst performances during this season and has changed a tactic which has worked before. In fact, even through it did look more effective then its opponents especially at 1st half it didnt provide very effective attacking football. Coming to referee decisions, there are some questions which needs to be raised at Hasan Ali Kaldirim hand ball and could be stated that Youness Belhand 2nd yellow card was too harsh even through it wasnt penalty kick either. In other words, Cuneyt Cakir just needed to say no to the penalty. Galatasaray didnt score 1st time during this season and didnt use to some extend 1st minutes when Fenerbahce has played pretty clumsy football. Galatasaray does get to the difficult period right now including game against Trabzonspor and those games would show if the team is at the level to get league title.

Galatasaray did play, especially after Belhanda red card, to the draw and was in fact providing chances to Fenerbahce with its style but their opponents didnt use those chances.

Fenerbahce improved in defence but lacked offensive game.

Fenerbahce on other sides did provide its best defensive football so far as it didnt manage to concede goal from most-scoring team at the league so far but too much focus into defence has led them to not being effective at offensive side of the field.

Coming to the Cuneyt Cakir performance probably the best position which does show that he didnt take sides is unallowed goal by Vincent Janssen as early as 6th minute which is clearly didnt include foul by him to Serdar Aziz. Fenerbahce after that did have issues at providing an attacking football even after playing with one more man in last 17 minutes. To some extend, Fenerbahce did create tactically number of chances but it was visible that it is lacking a player in the game who is capable to score goal out of nothing as their opponents did good defence also. This draw is much better than losing game so it can be seen as success as 8 points difference is not as drastic as 11 points but in other hands there was moments when Fenerbahce could reduce point difference to 5 points. Fenerbahce therefore did show very good performance at defence but was very poor at front which probably one of the main reason for 0:0 result.

Still, compare to previous games Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman can be glad for performance of the defenders and there is some signs of better days to come but it would be still long journey for a team.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 9th week:
Besiktas 1:1 Basaksehirspor

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, 4th round:
13:00 Sariyer - Adana Demirspor
14:30 Etisemesgut Belediyespor - Antalyaspor
16:00 Altinordu - Kars 36spor
17:00 Kasimpasa - Nigde Belediyespor
18:30 Alanyaspor - Edirnespor
19:00 Fethiyespor - Adanaspor
19:00 Kahramanraspor - Rizespor
20:30 Akhisarspor - 24Erzincanspor

In other news:

- International friendly game between Turkey and Albania would take place in Antalya on 13th November at 20:30.

- UEFA Disciplinary Committee has given fine of25,000 euro to Besiktas for loss of electricity and leaving stairs empty during Leipzig game

- Turkish PM Binali Yildirim has requested to open investigation to the Rocky choreography done by Galatasaray prior to Fenerbahce game.

- TFF has announced that decision which banners would be allowed to stadium has been done by stadium workers and security and not by them.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek: We dont have any connection with FETO and dont have any involvement with group with hands full of blood.Yes, their should investigate this choreography. With that everyone would see that we not involved with FETO

- Besiktas player Matej Mitrovic has been selected to Croatian National Team for World Cup Qualifier play-off game against Greece.

- Trabzonspor are interested to appoint coach Mustafa Resit Akcay as club's academy representative.

- Adelaide United player Ersan Gulum has become serious injured during Australian league game.

- Barcelona player Arda Turan injury has been recurred and recovery process has been started again.

- Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz will not be able to play for 3 weeks.

- Trabzonspor administrative board CEO Ali Surmen: Those resigned administrators has made decision, its their right to resign.There is long term problems at administration to solve economical issues which are not done

- Galatasaray has gained 8 million euro following Super League 9th week game against Fenerbahce from ticket sales and Galatasaray Store

- Besiktas are interested to appoint Ugur Boral as team head coach Senol Gunes assistant

- Hamza Hamzaoglu has stated that he would accept Konyaspor head coach role if it would be offered to him.

- Arsenal are interested to transfer Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup during mid-season transfer window.

- Konyaspor are interested to appoint Unal Karaman, Ertuglul Saglam, Hamza Hamzaoglu or Sergen Yalcin as club's head coach.