What happened in Turkish football today? 18/01/2017

Galatasaray has shown full confidence against Bucaspor at Turkish Cup. 

Galatasaray has taken 2nd leg of the Turkish Cup of the last 16 as serious as 1st leg as it has won game with 3:0 scoreline against Bucaspor and has carried on winning spirit with its new head coach Fatih Terim.

With an appointment of Fatih Terim, Galatasaray has won all of the 3 games as it has provided full control of the game from start to the end. Most important aspects which has happened with Galatasaray is that among winning back to back it has provided an attacking game from start to end and hence has led for a team to show dominating football which Fatih Terim waas seeking for. As it was observed from other opponents during 2nd leg games among big 3, namely Fenerbahce and Besiktas, has taken 2nd leg games in light manner and hence has led to not show full dominance. While Galatasaray was coming to the 2nd leg with most confident scoreline, wasnt affected from 1st leg result and has shown dominating game once again without providing much chance to Bucaspor. Stating that, Bucaspor it needs to be stated is being from 2nd league didnt have much chances against Galatasaray due of huge difference of quality and hence its hard to use this game as good reference point for Galatasaray for Super League, but still team is in good situation right now.

Meanwhile, as been mentioned there was very big level of quality between sides which has led for Bucaspor not to show an upper hand during 2nd leg of Turkish Cup against Galatasaray. Still, Bucaspor being from 3rd tier of league system has shown pretty good performance for getting as far as last 16 stage and could see following tournament as successful.

Galatasaray has won its 1st away game with Fatih Terim which seems to among big issues if how it would be performing at away games with new head coach but time would show how it is ready for Super League level game as it would meet with following title race team Kayserispor.

Besiktas has got into quarter-final despite losing 2nd leg to Osmanlispor.

Besiktas has managed to get to the Turkish Cup quarter-final stage even through it has lost to Osmanlispor during 2nd leg game with 2:1 scoreline with goals coming at the last 10 minutes. This calmness from Besiktas has been arisen from confident win from 1st leg.

Following game Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes has stated that he was unhappy with performance of the team as their couldnt provide top level performance and were conceding goals from very simple mistakes, including penalty given to the team. Of course, winning 1st leg game with 4:1 scoreline against team which it is superior to (to all respect towards Osmanlispor) has provided high number of calmness from Besiktas players and hence such a calm performance even through would make all coaches around world unhappy would be highly understandable. However, it needs to be fully focussed again with game against Antalyaspor during Super League 18th week game as the competition as always expected would be getting pretty tough with fighting spirit, as all of the games at Super League would be from now on.

Still Besiktas is finding itself to be still competing at all of the 3 competitions it can be and would be aiming for best results in all 3 and we would see how it would achieve that.

Basaksehirspor loans Riad Bajic for 6 months. 

Basaksehirspor has loaned another important name for themselves during this transfer window, Udinese player Riad Bajic for 6 months who without doubt would be playing an important role for a team at the fight of league title.

As it is known, Riad Bajic has made his name in Turkish football at Konyaspor where he played most important role for very good performance of the team in recent time including including league at 4th place 2 seasons ago and also winning Turkish Cup last season and hence has high level of performance for this league and also will not have issue with adapting to the league, two areas which without doubt are good news for Basaksehirspor. It needs to be note without doubt that Basaksehirspor with bringing Arda Turan and now Riad Bajic to the team would make team much more competitive for the league title as it has players who have quality to fill that pressure which would be leading to them, and despite of being eliminated to Giresunspor at Turkish Cup has high hopes to end at top place at the end of the season as it where it is now.

Riad Bajic joining team is very good news for them and would likely to provide good performance at his team and with team being more experienced from last season, their are expected to be inside league title race until the end.

Results:
Turkish Cup, last 16, 2nd leg
Antalyaspor 0:2 Kayserispor (agg: 1:5)
Bucaspor 0:3 Galatasaray (agg: 0:6)

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 18th week:
20:00 Kasimpasa - Alanyaspor

In other news:

- Turkish National Team has raised from 42nd to 41st position at FIFA World Ranking for month of January

- Karabukspor has loaned Aris Limassol player Marius Silviu Alexe for 1.5 years.

- Trabzonspor: Our club has transferred Midjylland player Filip Novak for 2.5 years for 1,900,000 euro transfer fee.

- Bursaspor has made transfer deal with Anorthosis player Abdullah Shehu for 2.5 years.

- Trabzonspor player Castillo has become injured during today's training session.

- Sparta Rotterdam has changed its mind to loan Fenerbahce player Yigithan Guveli due of injury.

- Galatasaray CEO candidate Mustafa Cengiz has stated that he would include Abdurahman Albayrak and Burak Elmas in his administration team if he wins election.

- CentralRefeereeCommittee CEO Yusuf Namoglu that until of the season VAR system testing would be going from offline to online mode.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Newcastle United player Yasin Ben ElMhanni.

- Galatasaray has offered 500,000 euro for Genclerbirligi player Ugur Ciftci.

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Santos player Robinho.

- Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie has requested for team to play 51% of his salary VAT to Dutch government.

- Celtic head coach Brendan Rodgers has stated that he is not interested to transfer Besiktas player Dusko Tosic.

- Konyaspor has made deal to loan Besiktas player Orkan Cinar.

- SaoPaulo has reduced transfer fee of its player Junior Tavares to 2.5 million euro but Galatasaray has set transfer for 2 million euro.

- Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim didnt approve transfer of Las Palmas player Loic Remy.

- Antalyaspor head coach Hamza Hamzaoglu: We are contuning preparation for Besiktas game. Their are good game but nothing is impossible. We aim for a win. We are aiming for top 10 position at the end of league. Samir Nasri is having talks with other clubs currently.

- Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes didnt approve transfer of Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz.