Galatasaray has got very important advantage but away game form does still put doubts for title.
Galatasaray has got an important advantage at the title race as it has managed to win Besiktas with 2:0 scoreline and with 3 weeks left until end of the season it has got leadership and confidence for those games.
Galatasaray was coming out for the Super League game where loser would have lose chance for league title and winner would be able to get into high motivation. With Besiktas being busy with an issue surrounding Turkish Cup semi-final 2nd leg, Galatasaray had much better conditions to get ready for this very important game and those factors without doubt has played an important role to get such confident win. It was clear during whole team that Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim and players has come out with only focus which is to win game and has done great work prior to kick off. Only negative aspects is for injuries of Mariano and Martin Linnes but there is hope that players would be ready for Akhisarspor game. It needs to be stated that even statistically Galatasaray has never lost league title as it entered to last 3 weeks as leaders, it has also provided unusual bad performance at away games so therefore its not looking that simple for them but team has right set of mind and motivation for sure right now.
Galatasaray did get an important motivation for last 3 weeks but its needs to show a good performance against Akhisarspor who would see this game as training game for final game at Turkish Cup.
Besiktas would have hard last 3 weeks psychologically.
Besiktas in other hand, with a loss against Galatasaray has put its chances for league title into difficult position as it has found itself 4 points behind Galatasaray and would need to wait for teams above to lose points more than one week to get title, and this taking account that only 3 games left until end of the season.
In fact, if Galatasaray wins Akhisarspor and Besiktas losses to Kayserispor than it would be out of title race with 2 weeks left until end of the season. It needs to be mentioned that events which took place at Turkish Cup semi-final 2nd leg and decision from TFF to end game on 3rd May has provided negative effect towards Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes and whole team. It is clear that team couldnt show whole focus at the game and also during preparation for the game despite of all works from administration to let players to forget about this game. With this set mind it would been hard for Besiktas to win any of the games and with this mood at the team it is unclear how their would end season. Win against Galatasaray even through will not let them forget about incident, but be able to provide strong motivation for last 3 weeks but this is also out of task. As been stated, now Besiktas would need to wait for their opponents to wait for team to lose points in last 3 weeks. Still it would be nice to see for excitement of league to provide great fight until its still has some chances for title mathematically.
Incident of Turkish Cup semi-final 2nd leg against Fenerbahce has provided big psychological effect to team and last 3 weeks would be tough not only at field but also at the mind of players and Senol Gunes.
Basaksehirspor wins by luck in last games but it might not be there at golden opportunity.
Basaksehirspor has managed to turn around Super League 31st week game against Osmanlispor as it has managed to win game with 4:1 scoreline and are now 1 point behind league leaders Galatasaray as we are entering to last 3 weeks.
It needs to be admitted that Basaksehirspor football wise are not able to show great performance at last few weeks and tend to either to get goal behind or get draw but with belief for league title and raise of tempo during last minutes to get needed goals. Even through so far it is working and hence cant be criticised much, it is also dangerous condition as their might not be able to return such as game against Sivasspor. Basaksehirspor does have focus for league title, concentration and belief at staff and players but their performance currently does put some questions if it manages to get 3 out of 3. Without having Emmanuel Adebayor next week against Sivasspor might also provide lots of issues for the team with this title race taking place. Basaksehirspor can play controllable game but it needs to find ways to be able to show controllable game which seems to be managed by Galatasaray at home ground and Fenerbahce in recent pasts. So far, Basaksehirspor has also won with part of luck but luck might not turn into their hand when golden opportunity arrives for title.
Basaksehirspor has won last 2 weeks but their style of play does show them that their might make one mistake and hence their need to improve and dont think that if it works it doesnt need to be fixed as chance to correct mistake done in one game will not be present for them.
Results:
Turkish Super League, 31st week:
Bursaspor 2:1 Konyaspor
In other news:
- Fenerbahce has requested TFF to provide equal chances to play Super League top 4 teams at same time hence change fixture of 32nd week accordingly and organise fixture for 33rd and 34th in this manner.
- Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz had car crash following Super League 31st week game against Besiktas as his car, driven by his driver, has crushed to minibus. Under condition is good after crush.
- Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz has stated that he would compete season despite of injury and would have an operation at the end of the season
- CentralRefereeCommitte CEO Yusuf Namoglu: UEFA trusts Cuneyt Cakir as referee and has appointed him for Champions League semi-final 2nd leg game between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Cakir will look at offer from China after World Cup 2018.
- Besiktas players Alvaro Negredo and Pepe has completed season due of injuries.
- Besiktas administrator Metin Albayrak: Everyone is talking about Senol Gunes thinking to end coaching career. Noone thinks about his psychological condition. Fenerbahce treatment of issue has affected him.
- Galatasaray has stated that recovery process for its players Mariano and Martin Linnes has started.
- Alanyaspor player Junior Fernandes has become injured and will not be able to play for 1 week.
- Roma has made transfer deal with Benfica to transfer Besiktas-loaned player Anderson Talisca.
- Chinese Football Federation has provided an offer for Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir to referee at Chinese league for next season.
- Unnamed Qatar club has offered 7 million euro yearly salary to Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz.
- Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes considers to end his coaching career at the end of the season.
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