What happened in Turkish football today? 30/01/2017

Besiktas has got important and confident scoreline against Genclerbirligi at Turkish Cup. 

Besiktas has got an important advantage against Genclerbirligi during Turkish Cup quarter-final 1st leg game with 3:1 scoreline where team has aimed clearly to get its dominating performance and keep its motivation and confidence at high point.

With Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes having rotation with his main squad for a game has shown high number of the chances during 90 minutes with only making one single mistake with conceding goal. With Besiktas player Alvaro Negredo starting game, he has shown pretty attacking game as he tried to find an important goal both for the team and also for his confidence. He eventually has found at 72nd minute with penalty goal. It needs to be stated that Besiktas has shown good performance during the game even through not many fans has attended to game. One of the areas of Besiktas during today's game is that even through with Champions League and Super League is taking higher priority for the team its still has shown great performance against team which would take cup in serious manner due of struggling season.
Meanwhile, Genclerbirligi had a trouble to show dominance during game as it couldnt get into right pace as did Besiktas even when it had scored equaliser on 52nd minute and would now have difficult time at 2nd leg even through its still has chances

Besiktas has got an important result against Genclerbirligi at quarter-final and now is pretty close for semi-fianl stage at Turkish Cup and more importantly keep it confidence for very crucial month of February it would have.

Giresunspor will not be simple opponent as expected for Fenerbahce.

Fenerbahce would be playing its Turkish Cup quarter-final tie against only team which has raised to this level from bottom division -  Giresunspor who showed an impressive performance so far at the tournament.

On the paper, it does look like Fenerbahce has recieved the easiest opponent at this stage but Giresunspor is in good form right now as it is located play-off zone at the 1st league which could mean their have good chances to be promoted to the Super League this season. It also needs to be reminded that on last 16 stage Giresunspor has eliminated Basaksehirspor. However, it needs to be stated that Fenerbahce also coming out in good form and even through their might have lose bit of motivation following draw with Trabzonspor their still continuing undefeated 16-game period in those tournaments altogether and are aiming to carry on this performance with an away win so therefore Fenerbahce will how Giresunspor performing and also with having an aim to carry on good performance would take game seriously.

Fenerbahce would come out as favourite on the paper but as been hinted Giresunspor have capacity to create surprising result at the game tomorrow.

Akhisarspor and Kayserispor is among most unpredictable ties at Turkish Cup quarter-final.

One of the most interesting games at the Turkish Cup quarter-final is promises to be between Akhisarspor and Kayserispor even through being "Anatolian" teams Turkish media as always will not take this game in serious matter.

One of the reasons why it promises to be with high tension is due of factor that both teams are in similar form at their performance and have good reasons to be aiming to win whole Turkish Cup on May. Stating that and looking at recent results it needs to be stated that Kayserispor would be coming out with better form and despite of having some downside at Super League with getting 1 point from 2nd half of the season so far it would still be aiming to provide good game against Akhisarspor whose meanwhile would be seeing this tournament as only way to finish above average this season with good performance at Turkish Cup.

Hence, Kayserispor would be seen as slightly favourite but with teams having not huge difference between each other it is pretty too close to be called for certain and both legs promise to have some tension.

Results:
Turkish Cup, quarter-final, 1st leg:
Besiktas 3:1 Genclerbirligi

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, quarter-final, 1st leg:
18:30 Akhisarspor - Kayserispor
20:30 Giresunspor - Fenerbahce

In other news:

- PFDK referalls:
- Genclerbirligi player Petar Skuletic has beenr referred for breaking rules and anti-sportmanship behaviour
- Konyaspor has been referred for events at field
- Besiktas has been referred for behaviour of fans
- Goztepe has been referred for not leavingstairs empty.
- Yeni Malatyaspor has been referred for events at field and not following guidelines
- Sivasspor has been referred for behaviour of fans and not following guidelines
- Sivasspor trainer Hikmet Yunus Kaya has been referred for anti-sportmanship behaviour
- Trabzonspor has been referred for behaviour of fans, events at field and not leaving stairs empty during game.

- TFF has announced Turkish Cup quarter-finals 1st leg referees for games on 31st January:
- Akhisarspor - Kayserispor: Ozgur Yankaya
- Giresunspor - Fenerbahce : Yasar Kemal Ugurlu

- Basaksehirspor has made transfer deal with Alanyaspor player Emre Akbaba.

- OrlandoCity has announced that it made transfer deal with Besiktas regarding selling Cyle Larin. Meanwhile, club also stated that it was dissapointed with Larin actions but has decided to keep players who show respect to contract and club.

- Fenerbahce has decided not to sell/loan its player Ozan Tufan during mid-season transfer window and player would stay at team at least until summer.

- Sivasspor has transferred Newcastle United player Henri Saivet.

- Antalyaspor has terminated contract with its player Samuel Eto'o.

- Denizlispor has transferred Alanyaspor player Darko Lazic.

- Konyaspor has made transfer deal with Basaksehirspor player Egemen Korkmaz.

- Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz will not be able to play next 2 weeks due of injury.

- Kasimpasa administrator Turgay Ciner has convinced Kemal Ozdes to stay at the team as club head coach.

- Basaksehirspor CEO Goksel Gumusdag has stated that he would support Besiktas CEO candidacy for Clubs Union

- Samuel Etoo has arrived to Konya to conclude transfer negotiations with Konyaspor.

- Galatasaray has declined news that it is interested to loan Inter Milan player Yoto Nagatomo for 6 months.

- Fenerbahce has transferred Canakkale Dardanelspor player Gorkem Celik.

- Bursaspor are interested to transfer Qarabakh player Richard Almeida.

- Kasimpasa are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Volkan Sen.

- Konyaspor player Adis Jahovic has attended to his 1st training session with his new team.

- Osmanlispor player Umar Aminu didnt attend today's training session for pain at his leg.

- Besiktas player Denys Boyko and Aras Ozbiliz would complete this season at club's academy.

- Referee of Super League 19th week game between Trabzonspor and Fenerbahce, Ali Palabayik is reported to recieve 8.4 points for his performance at game.

- Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz has played against Fenerbahce during Super League 19ht week game with an injury.

- Besiktas player Vagner Love would recieve 2.7 million euro salary for 1.5 years and for +1 year option would come into effect if he plays 25 games and would recieve 1.8 million euro.

- Besiktas has set transfer fee for its player Dusko Tosic as 4 million pounds.

- StokeCity has made transfer deal with Galatasaray for Badou N'diaye with 17 million euro value.