What happened in Turkish football today? 04/12/2019

Galatasaray has got shocking loss to Tuzlaspor.

Galatasaray has got unexpected loss against 3rd tier side Tuzlaspor with 2:0 scoreline at the home ground without providing any good performance during game with players didnt provide any seriousness to the game and close to be relegated from cup in such early stage.

It needs to be remembered that Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim provided chances to younger players and substitutes with looking aims to be providing good performance to coach that their are close to provide fighting spirit for starting 11 and future. But players who came out during the game didnt provide such image during game and didnt provide any focus towards this task. Tuzlaspor did use its opportunity in good manner but to all respect for them, the factor that this side has won in away game is mainly being weaknesses for them. It could be seen that Galatasaray didnt get Turkish Cup seriously but it needs to be noted that even with this circumstances, this loss to such opponent is not acceptable a lot and players need to get into themselves as this attitude is not what would be expected from them

Tuzlaspor on other hand needs to be praised with their performance today remembering that their didnt come out with their best squad but provided full focus towards game and has shown brave game which led them to win game.

Galatasaray did get unexpectable and shocking result against Tuzlaspor and for sure needs to show strong reaction from such poor outcome during 2nd leg and until mid-season break.

Trabzonspor got advantage scoreline against Altay

Trabzonspor has managed to get an away win against Altay with 2:1 scoreline as side has started game with mainly substitute players and also allowed for Daniel Sturridge to get some playing time as he was injured for number of the weeks.

As was expected, this game has ended up being pretty tough for Trabzonspor since its opponent did manage to provide some strong and organised performance and with taking account that Trabzonspor did play with not its best squad it did lead them to be having some issues during game. In fact, when looking that goals did come from its main stars, Daniel Sturridge and Alexander Sorloth provided that it needed that experienced touch to get win. Still Trabzonspor taking with circumstances and squad of the team did provide full attention to the game and did play to get such important away game and get an advantage for this tie as it would be meeting at home in 2 weeks time with an away goal for sure. Therefore, this game allowed for younger players to get important experience without getting dramatic scoreline in this game.

Altay full attention, focus and fighting spirit without doubt needs to be praised from this game and hence would allow to have some hope for upset for 2nd leg as it needs to find 2 goals without conceding.

Trabzonspor did get scoreline which would keep them advantage, but it wasnt easy for them and youngesters for sure.

Fenerbahce got good advantage against Istanbulspor

Fenerbahce did get pretty comfortable against Istanbulspor which is competing at lower division at the Turkish Cup with beating them 4:0 during Turkish Cup 5th round 1st leg game and hence getting an advantage scoreline.

As would been expected, as game has been played without Fenerbahce supporters due of 2-season incident against Besiktas, game itself didnt provide much excitement as Fenerbahce dominated game from start to an end, playing with 70% possession. It also needs to be admitted that early goals did also its task much easier as Istanbulspor did fail to provide any threats to Fenerbahce showing pretty passive ineffective performance. Meanwhile, it needs to be given additional note to great performance of Ferdi Kadioglu who has been by far best player in the game, looking and creating great chances as game was developing. With such performance he made it clear that he is ready to be at starting 11 as he didnt give up during training session. Wiht Moses also getting injured today, would lead for Kadioglu to start in upcoming 4 games in league.

Fenerbahce without much difficulty and resistance did get strong advantage for 2nd leg and could come out to return game in 2 weeks time in pretty calm and relaxed mood for sure.

Results:
Turkish Cup, 5th round, 1st leg:
H,Trabzon 0:1 Basaksehirspor
Eyupspor 0:3 Antalyaspor
Kasimpasa 2:1 Vanspor
Erzurumspor 4:2 Bursaspor
Altay 1:2 Trabzonspor
Galatasaray 0:2 Tuzlaspor

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, 5th round, 1st leg:
13:00 Kirklarispor - Gaziantep
14:30 Kayserispor - Manisa
16:30 Altinordu - Denizlispor
18:30 Rizespor - Samsunspor
20:45 Besiktas - 24 Erzincanspor

In other news:
-Goztepe has been referred to PFDK for behavior of fans.

- Galatasaray has signed mutual partnership with Lidya Group for 2019-2023

- TurkishNationalTeam friendlies during March has been announced as:
27/03: Turkey-Slovenia
30/03: Austria- Turkey

- Kayserispor has terminated contract with its player Paul Ntep.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Willem II player Timon Wellenreuther and Llapi player Emir Umit.

- Kasimpasa has appointed Tayfur Havutcu as club's head coach for 1.5 years

- Fenerbahce player Victor Moses has become injured during training session and has ended 1st half of the season.

- Sivasspor doesnt consider to sell its players Emre Kilinc and Hakan Mert Yandas during mid-season transfer window.

- Gaziantep CEO Mehmet Buyukeksi has stated that club will transfer midfielder, right back and 6th position player during mid-season transfer window.

- RealBetis are interested to transfer Besiktas-loaned player Mohammed Elneny.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Willem II player Timon Wellenreuther and Llapi player Emir Umit.

- Besiktas has offered 1.5 million euro salary to Brescia player Mario Ballotelli.

- Fenerbahce player OzanT ufan has declined 3-year extension contract with 1-1.5 million euro salary which been offered from club.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Juventus player Blaise Matuidi.

- Galatasaray has offered 1 million pound to Stoke City to loan their player Badou Ndiaye.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Tottenham Hotspur player Giovani Lo Celso.