What happened in Turkish football today? 08/03/2019

Basaksehirspor is likely to play again with organised and patient football against Fenerbahce.

Basaksehirspor would resume its road to its first title of Super League with very important game against Fenerbahce, where it would be aiming to get a win at home ground and keep its leadership for at least 8 points with 2nd-placed Galatasaray.

Basaksehirspor even through in some eyes does provide slow and boring football, it is on same time provides most organised game compare to other sides during this season which becomes one of the leading reasons why it has such strong leadership against other clubs. It would be expected that Basaksehirspor would be aiming to provide similar performance as it did during previous games which lies into providing an organised and patient football not allowing opponents to get many chances. Statistically Basaksehirspor does tend to show also good results against big clubs at home ground during recent seasons, which includes Fenerbahce and this would be an aim. As made it clear Abdullah Avci would follow game with similar tactical game as he did in previous games with logic of why fixing what is not broken, but it needs to remember that it need to stay focussed against Fenerbahce as during this season it tends to show great comebacks against big clubs with different motivation.

Without doubt, win for Basaksehirspor would provide them even bigger advantage to get league title at the end of the season and hence it needs to show performance with this in mind for sure.

Fenerbahce shows good performance against strong teams this season.

Even through Fenerbahce is having poor season so far, and even if results are satisfying right now, it still needs to be stated that it is pretty far from ideal game but as been noted team does get different motivation against big clubs, and Basaksehirspor running for league title would be qualified as such for sure.

Fenerbahce quite naturally have different focus right now at the season as it is still aims to stay at the league when coming to the table and would be aiming to carry on its positive results which it gets from last 2 weeks. Even through focus of this would be staying at all games without doubt, it is true that it gets different motivation mentally against Basaksehirspor as it has chance to prove everyone that their are not as bad as table suggests with winning leaders of the league. But as it noticed so far this season, Basaksehirspor is tough team to beat and with Fenerbahce not being able to provide good game for 90 minutes could easily provide issues for Basaksehirspor. It is hard to state that Basaksehirspor would get a win for sure, but when focussing into performance and situation at table Basaksehirspor is strong favourite but Fenerbahce would have strong focus to game, and it is capable to play great game when it has that focus without doubt.

Fenerbahce needs to defend pretty well for sure if it doesnt want to concede as it might not have much chance to find many goals during game.

Trabzonspor would meet with last place Akhisarspor.

Trabzonspor would resume its Super League season where its current aim is to secure top 4 position for Europa League would be continued with last-placed Akhisarspor during 25th week game, where Trabzonspor would aim to stop its poor performance during last week performances.

Without doubt Trabzonspor not being able to keep its leadership of 2:0 against Kasimpasa during last week has been very dissapointed and also poor performance during 2nd half, and hence its important for side to show right reaction with this result against Akhisarspor. It needs to be noted that even through Trabzonspor would come out as favourites for game, it is Akhisarspor who needs points more than Trabzonspor, and this would surely affect to performance of the side as Akhisarspor would be providing performance to get a win or even loss as the players has shown good performance during last week. Trabzonspor as been mentioned at our blog did provide not as good performance as their did during 1st half of the season and hence its need to show right reaction as it needs to get points for rest of the season and possibly to catch up with Besiktas which does go through turbulent times due of issue of Senol Gunes. Trabzonspor key is to get focussed to the game for 90 minutes and found ways how to get through likely strongly defended Akhisarspor if it wants to win games.

As been mentioned, Akhisarspor needs 3 points more than Trabzonspor and hence Black Sea side would be met with strong defensive opponent and it is important for them to provide right reaction to the game of opponent.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
Sivasspor 2:0 Yeni Malatyaspor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
16:00 Trabzonspor- Akhisarspor
19:00 Basaksehirspor - Fenerbahce
19:00 Ankaragucu - Bursaspor

In other news:

- TFF has announced that CEO election would take place on 1st June.

- TFF has announced dates for 1st league play-off dates. Winner of play-off would become 3rd team to join Super League next season:
- semi-final 1st leg: 22nd May
- semi-final 2nd leg: 26th May
- Final: 30th May

- TFF has announced that Cengiz Zulfakiroglu has been appointed as CEO assistant.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Boavista player Matheus Indio

- Besiktas player Adem Ljajic has been selected to Serbian National Team for international friendly game against Germany and Euro 2020 qualifier against Portugal.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Boca Juniors player Alberto Moreno and Werder Bremen player Max Kruse.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Volkan Babacan.

- Fluminense are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Mariano.

- Anderlecht considers to offer 4 million euro for Galatasaray player Yunus Akgun.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Eintracht Frankfurt player Kevin Trapp.

- Lazio are interested to transfer Besiktas player Gary Medel.

- Kasimpasa has set transfer fee of its player Trezeguet as 30 million euro.

- Besiktas are interested to appoint Bayern Munich head coach Niko Kovac as club's head coach.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Genk player Samatta.