Besiktas made history with Talisca goal which led game to end with 1:1 scoreline.
Besiktas has marked a history at the Turkish football tonight as it has became 1st ever Turkish team to end Champions League group stage as group winners and this taking account one game has been left at the group.
In overall it has become 3rd team to get to the knockout stage but compare to Galatasaray and Fenerbahce who has achieved this before their would be expected to get an easier opponent as their had ended as group winners, even through there is chance that it might meet with Real Madrid at last 16. Now coming to the game, Besiktas who has recieved minumum result of draw with 1:1 scoreline, didnt actually play for a draw well apart of possibly last 20 minutes. It has dominated game until then creating lots of the chances and looking for a win in some moments even more than Porto who needed to win this game. This time Cenk Tosun has played an important role at finding goal with his assist to the Anderson Talisca who has probably scored the most important goal at the history of Besiktas as it was reason to find goal as if their did lose game their would have difficult game agaisnt Leipzig in the last week. Besiktas has provided top performance at the whole team.
Porto meanwhile has also been affected as other teams at the group from strong supporters of Vodafone Park and had trouble to get full control of game even through their did find winning goal. Now their would fight with Leipzig to the 2nd place as it would be meeting with Monaco last week.
There were high number of times when Turkish clubs has played formality games in the last week but usually knowing that their would end their campaign this time Besiktas would play knowing it has won group, and thats alone shows what big achievement club has achieved.
Umit Ozat has returned to Genclerbirligi as coach after 4 months.
Genclerbirligi has sacked its head coach Mesut Bakkal following to poor performances he has shown including losing this weekend to Antalyaspor and surprisingly has appointed Umit Ozat who it has sacked after 3rd week of this season and has shown pretty unusual tactics which is rarely seen at the footballing world.
Genclerbirligi has provided its reasoning to the factor that it wants to give 2nd chance to its previous head coach Umit Ozat who has provided transfer politics with this side and understands much better what he wants, aims and targets with such an aim. It needs to be reminded that when Mesut Bakkal has been sacked at following day he has made statement that it wasnt his team as he wasnt responsible and he is only one who can build this team to raise from recent poor performance. Even through Genclerbirligi doesnt believe with 2nd part of this statement of Mesut Bakkal it seems to agree with 1st part. Stating that Umit Ozat who has been sacked before-hand did also surprisingly agreed to come back will not have an easy task at all as players are known to be at very low morale and not providing their top performance and also lack high quality players. But again since Umit Ozat was responsible to make this team, he would also know how to raise high level performance from this side.
As been mentioned, return of head coach to same team during same season is very unusual method and does have many risks and time would show if Genclerbirligi will not make a mistake from such decision.
Next 2 games would decide of Igor Tudor at Galatasaray.
Despite of fact that Galatasaray are still leaders at the Super League and did show very good performance at the start of the season, its head coach Igor Tudor is at very big scrutiny due of recent performance with catalyst being 5:1 loss to Basaksehirspor during 12th week.
Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek and administrator Cenk Ergun are reported to have one-on-one meeting where their had discussed performance of Tudor and his assistant coach Ayhan Akman. One of the main questions are why Galatasaray are performing not as well as their did in start of the season and why their cant perform well against top teams. As it is known, Igor Tudor still didnt manage to win either Fenerbahce, Besiktas, Trabzonspor and Basaksehirspor while being coach of the team. What is most crucial from the meeting is that both administrators still keeping both coaches at their position but would make final decision about future of Tudor after 13th week game against Alanyaspor and more crucial 14th week derby game against Besiktas and poor results from either games could mean end of career of Tudor at Galatasaray.
Hence, Igor Tudor need to get highly focussed and found out how to win those next 2 games if he wants of course to be still Galatasaray coach.
Results:
UEFA Champions League, Group G, 5th week:
Besiktas 1:1 Porto
Monaco 1:4 RB Leipzig
In other news:
- PFDK referalls:
- Akhisarspor player Paulo Henrique has been referred for breaking rules
- Kayserispor and Trabzonspor has been referred for events at the field
- Osmanlispor head coach Irfan Buz has been referred for anti-sportmanship actions.
- UEFA Stadium and Security Conference has been taken place in Istanbul.
- Turkish observer Oguz Sarvan has been appointed to observe Champions League Group C 5th week game between Atletico Madrid and Roma.
- Mehmet Aytekin has announced his candidacy for Karabukspor CEO position for 4th December election.
- Galatasaray academy coordinator Emrah Bayraktar would be assisting head coach Igor Tudor.
- Galatasaray administrators after viewing Youness Belhanda comments to French Bein Sports interview has come to conclusion that it was criticism ot himself and team players rather than to coach Igor Tudor.
- Fenerbahce players Roberto Soldado and Vincent Janssen are expected to start at starting 11 during Super League 13th week game against Antalyaspor.
- Fenerbahce players would get 6 million euro bonus if it manages to win all games until mid-season break.
- Basaksehirspor player Emre Belozoglu will resume training session on 22nd November after recovering from injury
- Trabzonspor player Jose Sosa has become injured during training session and will not be able to play for 2-3 weeks.
- Galatasaray players Eren Derdiyok and Iasmin Latovlevici are not expected to start against Alanyaspor during Super League 13th week game.
- Barcelona has stated that it didnt recieve request from Arda Turan to leave club in midseason transfer window.
- Liverpool player Lazar Markovic wants to return to Fenerbahce where he was loaned during 2015-16 season.
- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer forward during midseason transfer window.
- Mehmet Aytekin has announced his candidacy for Karabukspor CEO position for 4th December election.
- Galatasaray academy coordinator Emrah Bayraktar would be assisting head coach Igor Tudor.
- Galatasaray administrators after viewing Youness Belhanda comments to French Bein Sports interview has come to conclusion that it was criticism ot himself and team players rather than to coach Igor Tudor.
- Fenerbahce players Roberto Soldado and Vincent Janssen are expected to start at starting 11 during Super League 13th week game against Antalyaspor.
- Fenerbahce players would get 6 million euro bonus if it manages to win all games until mid-season break.
- Basaksehirspor player Emre Belozoglu will resume training session on 22nd November after recovering from injury
- Trabzonspor player Jose Sosa has become injured during training session and will not be able to play for 2-3 weeks.
- Galatasaray players Eren Derdiyok and Iasmin Latovlevici are not expected to start against Alanyaspor during Super League 13th week game.
- Barcelona has stated that it didnt recieve request from Arda Turan to leave club in midseason transfer window.
- Liverpool player Lazar Markovic wants to return to Fenerbahce where he was loaned during 2015-16 season.
- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer forward during midseason transfer window.
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