21 December 2018

What happened in Turkish football today? 20/12/2018


Fenerbahce has got good scoreline against Giresunspor but its not performance which Ersun Yanal aims for.

Fenerbahce head coach Ersun Yanal has won his 1st game since joining team with beating Girsunspor with 5:2 scoreline at Turkish Cup 5th round 2nd leg game  and providing good game and has shown strong performance with providing game with main squad players.

This blog did state during yesterday's preview of the game that Ersun Yanal would be coming with main squad during this game to get players used to his system of performance and also to become more familiar with the sides capabilities with this performance. It does need to be stated that despite of scoreline it needs to be admitted that still Fenerbahce didnt provide great performance especially at defence as it still has conceded 2 goals, which included from penalty. Still Fenerbahce attackers Roberto Soldado and Mehmet Ekici has shown very active game and has been playing forward seeking game. But it needs to be remembered that to all respect towards Giresunspor, who also shows poor performance at 1st league also, this confident scoreline doesnt show that things are getting into rails and still Fenerbahce head coach Ersun Yanal needs to do many job to move his team forward. However, without doubt this win would provide an important confidence and motivation for last game against Antalyaspor and without doubt Antalyaspor would be very unhappy with Fenerbahce winning like that prior to last game for two sides for 2018.

Giresunspor meanwhile, taking account its not showing best performance at own league, tried to show best game it can show and it has managed to do that with creating many chances and has aimed for positive game. Giresunspor did lose with big goal difference against Fenerbahce but it did end game with heads up.

Fenerbahce did get an important win in sense of motivation and confidence as been stated but its still needs to do many works to raise up at Super League, in upcoming games at Turkish Cup and Europa League. Fact that Ersun Yanal has difficult job during mid-season break stays regardless of this scoreline.

Trabzonspor has won Sivas Belediyespor with comfortable performance.

Trabzonspor has shown much more attacking and effective game during Turkish Cup 5th round 2nd leg game against Sivas Belediyespor compare to 1st leg, as it has managed to win with 5:0 scoreline.

Even through the team is currently through pretty difficult period both financially and also with number of the players, it was important for a team to show high level performance and their have just managed that against Sivas Belediyespor. It was stated, quite reasonably at our blog, that 1st leg result of the 2:2 is not really securing result and would provide some optimism towards Sivas Belediyespor. But Trabzonspor has done what needs to be done, which was to find 2 early goals and get control of the game thanks to some experienced but mainly with younger players. Trabzonspor was one which was controlling tempo of the game and hence has got a well-deserved win and managed to keep their aim for ending league at high spot and even get title even possible with keeping its motivation and confidence up and high as it would be playing against Rizespor this weekend prior to going to mid-season break.

Trabzonspor carries on showing great performance in recent weeks and even provides better performance than league leaders Basaksehirspor and with this performance it can have happy ending at both competitions next year.

Basaksehirspor CEO Goksel Gumusdag has ended his membership with Galatasaray. 

Basaksehirspor CEO Goksel Gumusdag, who was until today also member of the Galatasaray club, has announced today that he has cancelled his membership with latter one as he needs to focus more attention to Basaksehirspor.

Their was long-term discussion both at Galatasaray and general sports media if CEO of opponent team should be at that team member as it would be conflicting with interests and with Basaksehirspor being also direct opponent towards Galatasaray at title race this conflict arises even more and could provide damages at both sides of the story. Right now, Goksel Gumusdag could be more focussed into bringing successes to the team as the team is currently going towards winning its 1st league title despite of getting close in recent years and would need to focus into transfers during mid-season transfer window. Those aspects and also upcoming games as been noted could raise conflict of interests. It also important to note that Galatasaray itself was considering to end his membership so quite possibly he also has prevented this action with providing resignation himself.

We believe at blog that this decision is right one as it could raise and possible arleady raised before hand lots of conflict of interest between two clubs.

Results:
Turkish Cup, 5th round, 2nd leg:
Hatayspor 2:0 Genclerbirligi (agg: 3:2)
Darica Genclerbirligi 0:1 Antalyaspor (agg: 2:3)
Akhisarspor 2:0 Karagumruk (agg: 6:1)
Giresunspor 2:5 Fenerbahce (agg: 2:6)

In other news:

PFDK decisions:
- Basaksehirspor has recieved blockage of stands for behaviour of fans.
- Galatasaray has recieved 20,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans
- Galatasaray has recieved 60,000 TL fine for players and coach not attending post-game interview
- Yeni Malatyaspor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans
- Yeni Malatyaspor player Sadik Ciftpinar and Antalyaspor player Diego Angelo has recieved 2-game ban and 8,500 TL fine for harsh foul to opponent.
- Ankaragucu has recieved 20,000 TL for players not attending post-game interview.
- Besiktas has recieved 50,000 TL fine and blockage of stands for behaviour of fans
- Trabzonspor has recieved 75,000 TL fine and blockage of standsfor behaviour of fans
- Kasimpasa has recieved 9,000 TL for teamwise anti-sportmanship behaviour
- Bursaspor has recieved 20,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans

Turkish National Team has stayed at 39th position at FIFA World Ranking for December.

-  Antalyaspor has terminated contracts with its players Olcan Adin and Danilo.

Galatasaray has made transfer deal with Guangzhou Evergrande player Alan Calvalho for around 3.5 million euro salary per year.

Turkish referee Huseyin Gocek would referee international friendly game between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan on 25th December.


-Rizespor head coach Okan Buruk has stated that club aims to make 5-6 transfers during mid-season transfer window.

Besiktas player Ryan Babel: My contract is ending at new year with club and I dont know what would happen in future.

Trabzonspor administrator Haluk Sahin has stated that club didnt recieve transfer offers for Burak Yilmaz and Onur Kivrak

Bursaspor head coach Samet Aybaba declined rumours that club are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Olcay Sahin.

Besiktas are interested to transfer Juventus player Benatia.

Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Changchun Yatai player Odon Ighalo.

Villarreal are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Roberto Soldado.

Schalke04 are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Eren Derdiyok.

Galatasaray considers to extend contract with its players Yunus Akgun and Atalay Akgun.

BorussiaDortmund player are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Eljif Elmas.

Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Chelsea player Fabregas, Borussia Dortmund player Mario Gotze and Valencia player Michel Batshuyi

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