What happened in Turkish football today? 03/12/2019

Fenerbahce got easy win against Istanbulspor

Fenerbahce has got very comfortable win against Istanbulspor during Turkish Cup 5th round stage with 4:0 scoreline and would be going to 2nd leg of this tie with high mood as substitutes provided highly focussed performance during whole game.

It needs to be noted that 2 goals which came during 15th and 16th minutes and also with Istanbulspor not being able to provide in suprising manner any threats towards Fenerbahce led team to get highly advantage scoreline in this tie. Meanwhile, it needs to be noted that during whole game Fenerbahce did provide possession of the 75% which showed high attention and were willing to show positive game and to some extend most of the players in this game made it clear to their head coach Ersun Yanal that their are ready to at least provide fighting race for starting 11 for league game. This game has been also important for Vedat Muriqi who has played to regain playing condition for Genclerbirligi game in the league. Ferdi Kadioglu did also provide strong performance and it became clear that he continued active training even when not selected.

Istanbulspor which came from lower division did come out as underdog for sure but it was expected that it would be providing much more fighting but conceding early 2 goals back-to-back did affect its performance, and it has very difficult task for 2nd leg.

Fenerbahce with 4:0 result in this game, it would be know looking forward to last 16 round ticket with such big advantage and gained motivation for Genclerbirligi game.

Besiktas has got motivational boost following win against Kayserispor.

Besiktas has got pretty comfortable win against last-placed Kayserispor during Super League 13th week which has been result which it needed for motivation and confidence as even through it did win previous 4 games, it did provide some lack at effective attacking performance.

Coming to attacking game, it could be stated in pretty confident manner that Besiktas did show its best performance during this season but this has been also been due of opponent who is providing poor performance only winning Fenerbahce during this season. Despite of that it should be noted that Besiktas still did show good performance and has gained self-belief that it can provide strong performance at the front which it would be aiming to carry on in upcoming 4 games until mid-season break. Meanwhile, it still would be important here to mention VAR position when 2nd goal has been counted despite of position being overviewed by VAR referees but surprisingly it was decided that Caner Erkin did get ball into field from outside of field. This position without provide did lead lose of system even more in Turkey without doubt. But as been mentioned yesterday in this particular game, if goal been disallowed it wouldnt change outcome.

Still Besiktas did get important motivation boost following such comfortable win and would aim to end 2019 in such manner.

Trabzonspor will start Turkish Cup against Altay.

Trabzonspor would be starting its Turkish Cup at last 16 stage 1st leg game against historically strong Izmir side Altay which are currently located at the middle of 1st division table.

With Trabzonspor expecting to come to the game with likely substitute heavy side with providing chances to younger player it still would be coming to the game as favourties. Trabzonspor without doubt is likely to be taking Turkish Cup also in all serious mood and would like to provide performance which would make it clear of their intentions for the game. As been noted, with Altay having strong history and being top league regular in 1980-90's it would be aiming to provide strong performance with actually good but not very experience side to provide top level performance. Therefore, it would be important for Trabzonspor players to provide high level focus to game both to show their skills once again technical staff and not getting surprising result from Izmir side.

Trabzonspor as been noted are coming as strong favourites but its not expected that Altay will consider to provide easy win to opponent.

Results
Turkish Cup, 5th round, 1st leg:
Karagumruk 1:2 Goztepe
Yeni Malatyaspor 3:1 Keciorengucu
Alanyaspor 5:1 Adanaspor
Erokspor 0:2 Sivasspor
Fenerbahce 4:0 Istanbulspor

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, 5th round, 1st leg:
13:00 H.Trabzon - Basaksehirspor
13:45 Eyupspor - Antalyaspor
14:30 Kasimpasa- Vanspor
16:30 Erzurumspor - Bursaspor
18:30 Altay -Trabzonspor
20:30 Galatasaray - Tuzlaspor

In other news:

- PFDK referrals:
- Yeni Malatyaspor has been referred for behaviour of fans.
- Rizespor, Goztepe, Denizlispor has been referred for events at field.
- Konyaspor has been referred for not following guidelines.
- Fenerbahce has been referred for events at field and 6 players getting yellow and 1 player red card
- Trabzonspor has been referred for events at field and behaviour of fans

- -Kasimpasa has appointed Tayfur Havutcu as club's head coach for 1.5 years
- Denizlispor administrator Kaan Sanlikan: We didnt terminate contract with Kerem Can Akyuz. He wanted to negotiate with other clubs as he didnt play much in this club, we would assist him in this duration.

- Konyaspor player Marko Jevtovic has become injured while Ertugrul didnt attend training session due of sickness.

- Galatasaray players Mario Lemina and Sofiane Feghouli has become injured during today's training session.

- Fenerbahce needs to reduce its spending to 268,360,405 TL this year or otherwise it run risks to get reduction of points, transfer ban and reduction of squad from TFF.

- Genoa are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Miha Zajc

- Fenerbahce has made principal transfer deal with Wydad AC player Mohammed Nairi.