What happened in Turkish football today? 30/11/2017

Hugo Rodallega has brought win to Trabzonspor at Turkish Cup.

Trabzonspor has shown thats its not much worser than big Istanbul clubs during its Turkish Cup 5th round 1st leg game against Erzurum Buyuksehir Belediyespor game where it has won with 4:0 scoreline thanks to hat-trick from Hugo Rodallega.

In fact, this game has been very similar to other top 4 clubs at the Turkey as it has gained a very comfortable win prior to 2nd leg against teams which are below them at division and would also come out to the 2nd game for formalities. The hero of the game has been without doubt Hugo Rodallega who has shown full focus towards game and has used chances which he used in effective manner. The youth players or players who didnt recieve lots of playing time during this season at the Trabzonspor needs to be stated did also show high level performance and played an important role at getting this comfortable win against Erzurum Buyuksehir Belediyespor. Another advantage side of the game has been factor that Kucka has played 1st game after recovering from injury and did show to be at good form right now.

Meanwhile, Erzurum Buyuksehir Belediyespor did come to game as underdogs it was still expected that it would provide some better football as Trabzonspor does have some trouble at Turkish Cup in recent seasons but in same time Trabzonspor does look to be determined at the tournament at least in this early stages.

Trabzonspor if will not make big mistakes at the 2nd leg at Erzurum would get their ticket at last 16 and can also focus to Super League upcoming games starting with this weekend Antalyaspor game.

Fenerbahce has boosted its building motivation following 6:0 win against Adana Demirspor.

Fenerbahce carries on its winning habit which it has finally recieved with its head coach Aykut
Kocaman as it managed to get very comfortable win against Adana Demirspor with 6:0 scoreline at the Turkish Cup 5th round 1st leg making it 3 games back -to-back and more importantly 2nd game in row without conceding goal.

Foremost, it is important to note that it was expected for Fenerbahce to get a comfortable win against Adana Demirspor but it wasnt to be taken in such an easy way and to some extend many people thought that their opponents would be coming out to 2nd leg with small chance to fight for during 2nd leg. Without the main player of the game has been Alper Potuk with his hattrick which did send strong message to the Aykut Kocaman that he is capable to take place of an attacking players as it is known that Fenerbahce will come out without their main attackers available due of either injuries and card bans. Once again it might be not right to use this game as reference for Kasimpasa and other upcoming games at the Super League but it would allow Fenerbahce to build on its motivation which it has gained in last 2 weeks.

Fenerbahce would now be looking forward for this weekend Super League game against Kasimpasa where it would certainly would come out with only focus to win game with an opportunity to get closer to one or maybe even two of its main rivals who would play against themselves this weekend also.

Turkish clubs in battle with Belgium to reduce one qualifying stage for 2nd-place team at Champions League with new system introduced. 

UEFA has finalised its main changes which would take place at the Champions League and Europa League. Even through new changes does mean that 2nd placed team could have easier route to the main competition to of levels of the team at the competition, in same time this team would have 2 extra games due of changes of qualification process.

Even through it is now clear that 2nd placed team for certain would enter at 2nd qualifying round during next season there is chance for Turkish 2nd placed team in upcoming season to move one place up and start at 3rd qualifying round and make its route among being easier also faster.
According to UEFA system 10 places of countries at the coefficient has better advantage at the system and right now Belgium is taking 9th place just above Turkey. It is important to note foremost that Besiktas is doing very important role for gaining points for Turkey but for them to overpass Belgium, who does have poor season in Europe, it is also crucial here for Basaksehirspor and Konyaspor to get to the knockout stages at the Europa League which is hard but still possible task. Meanwhile, Turkey did gain 5,000+ points than Belgium this season but since coefficient looks at past 5 seasons there is still many points needs to gathered for Turkey this season. Positive side that this recent trend of Turkish clubs in overall does show that Turkey has capacity to overpass Belgium, even if it might not be this season.

Again, as been mentioned Besiktas is doing their lion share and their successful performance at Champions League would play important role here but role of Basaksehirspor and Konyaspor right now is not small either.

Results:
Turkish Cup, 5th round, 1st leg:
Orhangazi Belediyespor 0:3 Antalyaspor
Giresunspor 4:2 Alanyaspor
Kahramanmaraspor 1:3 Basaksehirspor
Erzurum Buyuksehir Belediyespor 0:4 Trabzonspor
Kayserispor 3:2 Eyupspor

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:
- Fenerbahce, Yeni Malatyaspor and Sivasspor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans.
- Besiktas has recieved 75,000 TL fine and blockage of stadium due of fans behaviour and 45,000 TL for events at the field.
- Osmanlispor has recieved 100,000 TL for allowing fans which are not allocated.
- Sivasspor has recieved blockage of stadium of some sections due of behaviour of fans

- Fenerbahce player Mehmet Ekici will not be able to play for 2 weeks due of injury.

- UEFA administrators has checked condition of Besiktas stadium Vodafone Park as it will host Super Cup 2019.

- Bursaspor player Ekong expects to recover from his injuries for Super League 15th week game against Fenerbahce.

- Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup is expected to start against Galatasaray during Super League 14th week game.

- Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman considers to take away from squad its player Robin van Persie.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Olympique Lyon player Jordan Ferri.

- Valencia are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur.

- Alanya and Goztepe are interested to transfer Besiktas player Orkan Cinar.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Manchester United player Danny Blind.

- Fenerbahce are expected to start with Mauricio Isla during Super League 14th week game against Kasimpasa.