24 February 2020

What happened in Turkish football today? 23/02/2020


Galatasaray has won first time at Fenerbahce stadium since 1999. 

Galatasaray has got its 1st win at the Kadikoy against Fenerbahce since 1999, as it has provided much more willing, controllable, attacking football from start to an end and has been more hungry for 3 points while Fenerbahce didnt control game very well and carries on providing poor performance with players looked to be distracted.

Galatasaray despite of losing at Kadikoy for 20 years did come out as strong favourites for this game due of recent performance of both sides and also being highly focussed for league title. Meanwhile, it needs to be noted that game has been stopped a lot and didnt provide much game time but when comparing with two sides Galatasaray has been side which aimed to focus into showing strong attacking game especially focussed into Henry Onyekuru speed to use weak points of Jailson. Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim did prepare in strong manner both psychologically and tactically and with players fulfilling all plans which were set by coach with high motivation and confidence did let for them to win game with pretty good result with 3:1 scoreline and without doubt now has got strong motivation for title race qnd got same points with Trabzonspor.

Meanwhile, Fenerbahce following game has thrown fault for this result towards referee Umut Meral and even through referee didnt provide very good game, it would be self-tricking for players to throw all blame towards towards referee since it has provided very poor performance. Fenerbahce it needs to be noted did provide very poor performance against Ankaragucu and did provide such poor performance during last week and carried similar negative performance. What is more crucial, if Fenerbahce would have lost this game it would find itself pretty far away league title as we are entering to crucial weeks it needed to show much more effective and attacking game but it didnt manage to show that performance both in defence and attack. It needs to be noted that Vedat Muriqi recent drop of performance has been visible in this game with failing to provide much pressure to goal. Losing to its rivals first time since 1999 would certainly provide huge pressure towards head coach Ersun Yanal and Ali Koc.

Galatasaray among winning its first derby game at Kadikoy for 20-years has made its position as main title contender for end of this season even stronger while Fenerbahce would be felt with pressure strongly for upcoming weeks. 

Trabzonspor got important 1 point against Besiktas

Even through it could be argued that Trabzonspor didnt provide great game against Besiktas during Super League 23rd week, 2 goals from Alexandr Sorloth which led for team to get 1 point has kept satisfied and carried on keeping them among main title contenders.

Trabzonspor did provide pretty good and effective start of the game with creating high amount of the chances with focussing to create high amount of the chances which led for team Alexandr Sorloth, but it needs to be noted that it did lose whole possession of the game even through players did provide high level concentration at defence and once again Ugurcan Cakir provided very good performance preventing for Besiktas to get into chance. With taking account that Besiktas did provide some new beginning with Sergen Yalcin and also playing at home ground did lead side did get important point in its route for title race and with such crucial week taking place in whole league, it was important for them to get this 1 point. Meanwhile, Alexandr Sorloth with his memorable performance so far plays important role for team in this title race and would get most important share if Trabzonspor would get outcome it seeks for.

Trabzonspor as been noted got important 1 point and would be looking forward for last 12 weeks, including postponed Yeni Malatyaspor, with focus to win all games.

Besiktas lacks quality in attack.

Besiktas on other hand, did come out with only aim to win game against Trabzonspor and without doubt did provide performance to achieve that but goals conceded in beginning and end of the game did provide its negative circumstances.

To keep alive some its title hopes, Besiktas needed to win league winners and with its performance after conceding their 1st goal, it did look like team been focussed and prepared to game in this game with creating high amount of chances. Besiktas even through did score 2 goals against in-form Trabzonspor, could have scored even more. Among good performance opponent defence and Ugurcan Cakir,it could be stated that Besiktas players did provide right focus and attitude, as it tends to be in this season its quality of players were not enough to get this outcome. Right now, Sergen Yalcin tries to create side which would be providing an attacking game, opposite of Abdullah Avci style, but he does provide some struggling issues with such squad, but once again Yalcin can achieve to some extend with this squad. This game does provide hope for rest of the season but it would be hard to get title.

Besiktas is getting into level which it is seeking for and it would be more realistic for them to aim Europa League spot rather league title.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 23rd week:
Yeni Malatyaspor 1:2 Antalyaspor
Genclerbirligi 1:0 Ankaragucu
Fenerbahce 1:3 Galatasaray

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 23rd week:
20:00 Rizespor - Basaksehirspor
20:00 Kasimpasa - Denizlispor

In other news:

YeniMalatyaspor head coach Kemal Ozdes has resigned from his position.

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