Fenerbahce didnt allow Karabukspor to provide big surprise result towards them.
Fenerbahce didnt allow Karabukspor to provide surprising result against them during Super League 16th week game as it has won with 2:0 scoreline at the game which it had tough period at creating high number of chances as Karabukspor has come to get at least draw.
From paper it looked like Fenerbahce would be able to get a confident win against Karabukspor as it would be played against last place team at the Super League and have some serious internal issues among its field. But it has trouble at creating high level of chances during 1st half and the key of the game has been Mathieu Valbuena who has come out during 2nd half and speeded up during game. With scoring 2nd goal he has also got an important role at the Mehmet Topal goal during 56th minute. It was still important for not conceding a goal from Karabukspor as it didnt concede goal at home for long time. Only issue is being 4 yellow cards punished players with Martin Skrtel being one of them at defence prior to last game of 1st half against Konyaspor.
Karabukspor with taking its situation at the table did provide pretty good discipline during 1st half and with knowing its situation has fought for a draw but wasnt able to stop to quality goals from Fenerbahce during 2nd half.
Fenerbahce right now has reduced its point difference with league leaders to 1 point and team which has been heavily criticised during most of the season so far has opportunity to enter to mid-season break as leaders of league.
Galatasaray head coach Igor Tudor has been sacked from his position despite of being 2nd place at league.
Following loss to Yeni Malatyaspor with 2:1 scoreline, Galatasaray had very active day today as patience of Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek and other administrator towards head coach Igor Tudor has been ended and has led for resignation of head coach.
Number of readers of this blog who dont follow much Turkish Super League might get surprised how head coach Igor Tudor who is only 1 point behind league leaders Basaksehirspor would get sacked.
However, with recent performance of Galatasaray including loss against Basaksehirspor with 5:1 scoreline and Besiktas with 3:0 scoreline and other 2 away losses has led for this resignation. Among other things from start of the league, when Igor Tudor was even getting good results he has recieved high number of criticism. This blog will not question either Igor Tudor coaching and how right is decision, but it needs to be remembered that in country like Turkey its hard to be coach of leading team even when things going well. To some extend this decision was also good news for Igor Tudor as he was getting too much pressure and stress with this anti-campaign against him which could be seen from post-match analysis and his behaviour towards fan.
Another big news regarding of Galatasaray has also been news that team would be going to an early election between 13th-20th January due of disagreements about selection of new coach. It would be hot topic Fenerbahce situation in this transition period of two calendar years for sure.
Besiktas is pretty unbeatable when their give full concentration to game.
Besiktas has provided one of its best performance during this season as it has dominated from start to an end Super League 16th week game against Osmanlispor which it has won with 5:1 comfortable scoreline.
With Champions League games being ended until mid-February Besiktas would now be able to focus entirely to the Super League with upcoming 3-4 weeks and aim to catch up with top places teams with also providing very attacking football. And it has achieved during Osmanlispor game where it has dominated game from start to an end with Ryan Babel hat-tricks during game making him star player as he was hungry to find goals during whole game. Besiktas has provided once again that when their provide full focus to the game their can become pretty unstoppable team and with such a game did show that if it carries on like that it can get league title once again but key issue is to show this performance during whole games. Besiktas which did come with mind to dominate game has also been helped with Osmanlispor poor performance despite of goalkeeper and could even make bigger goal difference with number of chances their created during game.
Besiktas would now be aiming to last game of 1st half of season against Sivasspor where it would recieve harder task compare to Osmanlispor but with such game is not expected to recieve much issues during game.
Results:
Turkish Super League, 17th week:
20:00 Goztepe 0:1 Konyaspor
20:00 Fenerbahce 2:0 Karabukspor
In other news:
- - Besiktas: Our club terminated contract with its player Alexander Milosevic.
- Galatasaray caretaker coach will be Emrah Bayraktar for Super League 17th week game against Goztepe.
- Galatasaray expected CEO candidates: Dursun Ozbek, Adnan Ozturk, Unal Aysal and Ahmet Ozdogan.
- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman has recieved an award from Bogazici University Sports Award for Sports Administrator of the Year.
- Besiktas player Cenk Tosun goal against Porto during Champions League has been selected as best goal by UEFA during group stage.
- Konyaspor: Following game against Goztepe one of the person at protocol tribune as we talked to opponent administrators has attacked as verbally. We had on going argument following that. Goztepe CEO Mehmet Sepil has apologised for this action.
- Bursaspor player Migel Agu has resumed training session after recovering from injury.
- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Ersun Yanal and Hikmet Karaman as club's head coach.
- Kayserispor are interested to transfer Astra Giurgiu player Denis Alibec.
- Goztepe are interested to transfer Dinamo Kiev player Artem Kravets.
- Cruzeiro administrator Itair Machado: If Fenerbahce player Fernandao would come to us he would score lots of goals. In last game, he has played and scored two great goals.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Manchester United player Henrikh Mkhitarian.
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