Basaksehirspor raises hopes for last 32 with win against Ludogorets.
Basaksehirspor has got an important win against Bulgarian side Ludogorets during Europa League Group H 5th week game which has turned out to be their 1st win at the competition and also carried on their chances to get to the last 32 prior to last game with 5 points.
It was important for Basaksehirspor to win game tonight as it would have catch up to Ludogorets who were 5 points ahead of them and hence has aimed to reduce point difference to 2 points and carry on its chances at the tournament. Basaksehirspor has started game in high note as it has found 2 goals within 30 minutes with help of the Edin Visca and Kerim Frei as their win against Galatasaray at Super League during 12th week has affected positively to them. It needs to be stated that bad news for them is that Hoffenheim has its lost chance to get to last 32 which means that it would not need to meet against Ludogorets who it needs to win for Basaksehirspor to end 2nd place. Still the fact that it has some chances for last 32 with pretty poor start at the tournament does provide and hope to Istanbul side.
Ludogorets who did have point advantage over Basaksehirspor and has shown good performance at the tournament so far wasnt able to stop an attacking opponent even through it did improve during 2nd half. Ludogorets however as stated above still has advantage our Basaksehirspor in group.
Basaksehirspor right now need to focus to win Braga who are group leaders and hope that Hoffenheim would bring them some good news.
Konyaspor has lost its opportunity to get the last 32 stage at Europa League.
Last minute own goal scored by Konyaspor player Mane could be leading them to be eliminated from Europa League as it has lost an important advantage at the group which was gained at 80th minute by goal from Skubic and has put its chance for last 32 stage into difficulty prior to last game at group.
In fact, if Konyaspor has managed to win Marseille today it would be very close to get to the last 32 as it would been playing against weakest team Vitoria which doesnt any chances to get to the next stage. It needs to be stated still that Konyaspor has provided a very good football right now and has created good chances to win game especially taking account that it was playing against very in-form Olympique Marseille which are currently are at good form right now. What it makes it even more tragic that Konyaspor was playing with an extra man as Marseille player Jordan Amavi has recieved red card and did look like Konyaspor task even became easier as that position has been followed with Skubic goal in fact. If Konyaspor has been more careful during game without doubt it would get a very important advantage prior to last game.
Olympique Marseille in other hand was lucky to get one point from own goal of Mane as it was close to lose game with having one player less and Konyaspor controlling game however right now its enough for them to even draw against Salzburg at last week.
Konyaspor are still having chances to get into next stage as long as it wins Vitoria and Marselle loses to Salzburg. Konyaspor can achieve that as their win has come from that fixture but other game is open to any result.
Fenerbahce could start with both Soldado and Janssen against Antalyaspor.
One of the most discussed issues prior to Super League 13th week games is would Fenerbahce start a game with two attackers: Roberto Soldado and Vincent Janssen or choose both for the game against Antalyaspor.
This discussion about formation change for Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman has been given due of very good performance both players has shown during Sivasspor game last week which led team to win game comfortably at the end. Both Soldado and Janssen are high level players who can also get a good understanding with each other as been seen from game last weekend. However, Galatasaray did lose many points during this formation of 4-4-2 including against Antalyaspor which kinds stops to make this formation decision by Aykut Kocaman but in our view this a risk which could be taken during the game and could lead to very good results. The final decision would be make by Kocaman but it is clear that many media analysts and supporters would be looking for this formation as its important to use this effective attackers and their were transferred with this style in mind.
Meanwhile, it needless to say that Fenerbahce are aiming to win and hence making correct formation would provide good advantage to a team prior to game so its need to be thinked about by Kocaman.
Results:
UEFA Europa League, Group I, 5th week:
Red Bull Salzburg 3:0 Vitoria
Konyaspor 1:1 Olympie Marseille
UEFA Europa League, Group H, 5th week:
Ludogorets 1:2 Basaksehirspor
Braga 3:1 Hoffenheim
Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 13th week:
20:00 Osmanlispor - Genclerbirligi
In other news:
PFDK decisions:
- Kayserispor and Trabzonspor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans
- Osmanlispor head coach Irfan Buz has recieved 1 game ban and 13,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship statements
- Akhisarspor player Paulo Henrique has recieved 1 game ban and 4,300 TL fine for breaking rule during game
- Turkish National Team has been dropped from 33rd position to 42nd position during FIFA World Ranking for month of November with 735 points.
- Antalyaspor players Salih, Zeki, Sandro and Djourou became injured during today's game.
- Trabzonspor administrator Gokhan Saral has stated that their dont plan to sell Abdulkadir and Yusuf Yazici. He added that their talked about matchfixing with FIFA also.
- Monaco and Sevilla are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Yusuf Yazici.
- Fenerbahce players Mauricio Isla and Matheiu Valbuena has resumed training session after injury recovery.
- Alanyaspor player Etame Mbilla has become injured during today's training session.
- Bursaspor CEO Ali Ay: We have raised our budget from last season 65-70 million euro to 125-130 million euro. We have much quality players. We also have world-class head coach.There is no talks with Fernandao we would talk about it after 15th December.
- Trabzonspor didnt pay 1 million euro installment to San Lorenzo transfer fee of Emmanuel Mas.
- Galatasaray aims to transfer defender and left back during midseason transfer window.
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