What happened in Turkish football today? 28/02/2019

Akhisarspor has set an eye to defend its Turkish Cup title. 

Akhisarspor at its road to defend its Turkish Cup title has also become last semi-finalists as it has beaten Kasimpasa with 5:2 aggregate scoreline and has also managed to win an away 2nd leg game with 2:1 scoreline showing their seriousness of Turkish Cup.

As it is known, Akhisarspor is currently located at the last place at the Super League and is performing poorly but this performance is not similar to Turkish Cup as it is showing totally different motivation to the tournament. Kasimpasa on other hand, is carrying on its downside performance at this tie in similar manner as it is has shown at the Super League and even through it did start 2nd leg game at good manner with creating chances, but didnt show any upper performance as it has conceded 1st goal. Stating that when it did make scoreline to 1:1, it has got some chance to turn around game as it needed to find 2 goals for extra time but it didnt use its chances. Akhisarspor on other hand has shown strong performance and motivation which has responded with organised game and also finding goal at 84th minute with Serginho. This win would also likely to provide an addiitonal motivation and confidence for rest of the season at Super League.

Akhisarspor would now meet with Umraniyespor during Turkish Cup semi-final and with their opponents showing historical performance it would be game between two sides which would be aiming for final of competition and hence would be an exciting game.

Galatasaray has almost been relegated to Hatayspor due of too much relaxation.

Galatasaray have almost been relegated from Turkish Cup quarter-final tie to 1st league side Hatayspor, despite of having an aggregate scoreline of 4:0 and an away goal at hand prior to 40 minutes until end of the game, but too much relexation from reserve and substitute had allowed opponent to show comeback.

As been mentioned at the blog yesterday and as it became clear Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim quite understanably has shown reactive reaction for the team to show such relexation and has provided a valuable lesson of what could happen if their dont take opponent seriously. Luckily for Fatih Terim and players their still managed to get to the semi-final due of 2 away goals. Since the game has been mainly played by substitutes it could be hard to provide any criticism in sense of general performance of the side as starting 11 side at Super League would have unlikely to make same mistake. This game only has been important to note for young Turkish players which has shown too much relaxation and might also delay their chances to get to the starting 11 in upcoming future with such an attitude.

Galatasaray would now once again focus to the Super League as it would be meeting with difficult game against Erzurumspor at what would be expected to be taken place at cold conditions.

Yeni Malatyaspor has got to semi-final after beating Goztepe from penalties. 

Yeni Malatyaspor has managed to get through semi-final of Turkish Cup where it would be playing against Galatasaray after beating Goztepe at penalty kicks despite of losing 2nd leg game with 1:0 scoreline.

The factor that both sides performance at this season is being in similar manner, even through Yeni Malatyaspor did show slightly better performance during whole season, it was expected that tie would be hard to be found in between. And that has been a case as 1:0 scorelines at home ground has led for both sides to go until penalty with Yeni Malatyaspor being one to get a win. With such a win
Yeni Malatyaspor naturally has got one step closer to winning Turkish Cup as their top 4 end of the season for now is being uncertain but it would have tough game against Galatasaray at semi-final as their opponents are for now aiming to end season with a double. Coming to Goztepe, despite of being relegated it needs to be admitted that Tamer Tuna, who has returned to team just few days, has provided strong promise for rest of the season and their is high chance for team to end Super League at high note.

Yeni Malatyaspor has managed to get victorious at such close tie, but it would have tougher time against Galatasaray at semi-final.

Results:
Turkish Cup, quarter-final, 2nd leg:
Kasimpasa 1:2 Akhisarspor (agg: 2:5)

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 24th week:
20:30 Antalyaspor - Ankaragucu

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:
- Kasimpasa player Strahil Popov has recieved 2-game ban for anti-sportmanship action
- Basaksehirspor and Goztepe has recieved blockage of stands for fans behaviour
- Bursaspor has recieved 75,000 TL fine (4th time in season) and blockage of stands for behaviour of fans.
- Trabzonspor has recieved 140,000 TL (6th time in season) and blockage of stands for behaviour of fans.
- Besiktas has recieved 20,000 TL fine for events at field and 100,000 TL (3rd time in season) and blockage of stands for behaviour of fans
- Fenerbahce has recieved 110,000 TL (5th time in season) and blockage of stands for behaviour of fans
- Ankaragucu has recieved 20,000 TL for events at field
- Akhisarspor has recieved 9,000 TL for anti-sportmanship behaviour of team.

- Arbitration Committee has reduced ban of Konyaspor player Adis Jahovic from 3 games to 1 game.

- UEFA Disciplinary Committee has gave 3-game ban to Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma due of red card during Europa League game against Malmo

- TFF ex-CEO Yildirim Demiroren: I am announcing my resignment as CEO of TFF. I am announcing my resignation for not getting behind some arguments regarding myself. Meanwhile, Husnu Gureli would be temporary CEO until CEO election on May.

- TFF has announced that it has appointed Senol Gunes as Turkish National Team head coach role from 1st June 2019 and contract would last for 4 years. Meanwhile, TFF is doing all the work for Senol Gunes to also be at his posiiton for Euro 2020 qualifiers in Marc

- Trabzonspor administrator Ertugrul Dogan has stated that it has raised transfer ban after paying for transfers of Jose Sosa, Burak Yilmaz, Filip Novak and Kucka of 30 million euro.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: Resignation of TFF CEO Yildirim Demiroren was big surprise for us. It wasnt informed to us beforehand. Meanwhile, our head coach Senol Gunes would be our coach until June.

- Akhisarspor player Fatih Ozturk has been taken out of squad at his side for indefinite time.

- Arsenal considers to offer 50 million euro for Roma player Cengiz Under.

- CeltaVigo has forgiven its player Emre Mor and player has attended to today's training session.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Hoffenheim player Isa Dogan.

- TorontoFC are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma.

- Galatasaray players Badou Ndiaye and Mbaye Diagne have been selected to Senegal National Team for African Cup 2019 qualifiers game against Madagascar.

- AtleticoMadrid and Sevilla are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Marcao.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Ajax player Nuri Emre Aksit.

- Besiktas player Adem Ljajic is expected to start against Kayserispor during Super League 24th week.

- Galatasaray has offered 3 million euro as transfer fee for Standard Liege player Luyindama but Liege requests 6 million euro fee.