What happened in Turkish football today? 21/01/2019

Fenerbahce needs to find way to show high level performance for 90 minutes.

Even through Fenerbahce has shown reasonable performnace during 1st half and have found beautiful goal with Roberto Soldado at 20th minute, it couldnt prevent back-to-back attacks from Bursaspor during 2nd half and has been lucky to end game with 1:1 scoreline.

It wouldnt not be stated that Fenerbahce has shown perfect and wanted game during its 1st half but it did show some improvement as it has provided some positive football with looking for chances with Roberto Soldado especially being eager to score goals and he has managed to do that at 20th minute with great touch. However, as was case since Ersun Yanal has been appointed as club head coach it has shown very poor 2nd half and has lost all of the control of the game allowing Bursaspor to create many chances. It also in all fairness needs to be stated that Bursaspor compare to 1st half did show poor 1st half which could have led for good image of Fenerbahce. Even through Fenerbahce as been mentioned didnt provide perfect game at 1st half it has been effective still and for now at least it should be aiming to show this level performance during whole game which could be enough to win some opponents at Super League. Fenerbahce with this point meanwhile has found out of relegation zone with goal difference but will not happy that Rizespor has won during palarrel game.

Bursaspor meanwhile as been mentioned didnt start game well but has turned its 2nd half performance with creating high number of the chances but didnt convert until last minute thanks to the Aytac Kara goal. In similar manner, Bursaspor has provide good level performance if it shows similar performance in 90 minutes which their did in 2nd half.

Fenerbahce still provides poor performance and Turkish Cup last 16 2nd leg game, which it would coming out with losing tie 1:0 against Umraniyespor, could be good opportunity for raising motivation and confidanation.

Trabzonspor defenders didnt show great performance against Basaksehirspor

Trabzonspor has lost a good opportunity to get closer to the league leaders Basaksehirspor as it has lost Super League 18th week game with 4:2 scoreline and now find themselves 9 points against league leaders with providing pretty poor performance in the defence.

It needs to be admitted that Trabzonspor, especially section of players which was closer to offensive, did come out to win game and has created high amount of the chances and didnt give up when scoreline was 2:0 and 3:1 but high motivation and organisation of the opponent has become key of this game. It also needs to be stated that Trabzonspor administration has shown high amount of strong language and protest towards referee of the game and even through referee didnt show great performance it is hard to throw 100% factor of Trabzonspor losing game to him. Compare to attackers, Trabzonspor didnt manage to stop Basaksehirspor which has been focussed into counter-attack football and having strong players in attack has converted almost all their chances. The most valuable lesson which team could get from this game has been for defenders is to stay more focussed to game.

Trabzonspor didnt lose itself from title race with such unpredictable league we having but it would be mentally better for team to not aim for league title but rather into lower position which still would bring them to Europe.

Galatasaray would seek for similar performance against Boluspor as it shown with Ankaragucu.

Postponed Turkish Cup last 16 1st leg game between Boluspor and Galatasaray will be taking place on 22nd January with much better weather conditions which has been greeted to players last week.

With Galatasaray getting very confident win against Akhisarspor with 6:0 scoreline at the league, side would be coming out with high motivation and confidence for game and in similar not Boluspor is not also great condition mentally as their had terminated contract with  its head coach today. Galatasaray would be coming out as strong favourite and with still having an attacker issue is still expected to go for a comfortable win from this 1st leg and aim to have much calmer game during 2nd leg for sure. As would be expected, Galatasaray is likely to come out with younger players or players who dont recieve much playing time who would be aiming to show high level performance on the day and showing their value to team head coach Fatih Terim.

Galatasaray hence will be coming out as strong favourites and would be aiming to show similar performance as it did with Ankaragucu but this time with an alternative squad.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 18th week:

Bursaspor 1:1 Fenerbahce

Kasimpasa 0:1 Rizespor

Schedule:

Turkish Cup, last 16, 1st leg:

19:45 Boluspor - Galatasaray (game has been postponed due of heavy snow last week)

Turkish Cup, last 16, 2nd leg:

18:00 Akhisarspor - Kayserispor (agg: 2:1)

In other news:

- TFF has announced referees for Turkish Cup last 16 games on 22nd January:

18:00 Akhisarspor - Kayserispor(2nd leg): Volkan Bayaraslan
19:45 Boluspor-Galatasaray(1st leg): Suat Arslanboga

- Ankaragucu CEO Mehmet Yiginer would resign from his post with condition that he would provide with 35 million euro to club as donation to club.

- Ankaragucu has announced that Super League 19th week game against Alanyaspor it would play at new stadium Eryaman Stadium.

- Galatasaray has loaned Sparta Prague player Semih Kaya for 6 months with paying 3,760,000 TL salary to player.

- Rizespor has transferred Porto player Chidozie Collins Awaziem

- Akhisarspor has transffered Mechelin player Edin Cocalic for 2.5 years.

- ShekndijaTetovo has transferred Olcan Adin

- Besiktas administrator Ahmet Kavalci has decliend rumours that Ricardo Quaresma wants to leave team.

- Erzurumspor has made transfer deals with Bodo Glimt player Kristian Fartal Opseth and Serkan Kurtulus.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Rayo Valencano player Luis Advincula.

- SpartaPrague player Benjamin Tetteh manager Pavel Zika: There is no transfer deal with Galatasaray but both sides are close at fee negotiations. During this week, deal could be made between sides.

- Espanyol are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Carlos Kameni

- Besiktas would keep its player Enzo Roco at least until end of the season.

- Galatasaray has made transfer deal with Guangzhou Evergrande player Alan Carvalho with 3 million euro transfer fee.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Shanghai Shenhua player Demba Ba

- Chelsea player Victor Moses has requested to include 3,250,000 euro compensation clause at Fenerbahce contract if club would be relegated and 200,000 euro bonus if club stays at league in his contract.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Kasimpasa player Trezeguet.