What happened in Turkish football today? 08/07/2020

Trabzonspor did lose very important 2 points for its league title

Turkish Super League 30th week crucial game for both Trabzonspor and Antalyaspor has ended with 2:2 scoreline with 3 goals coming from penalty kick, and right now Trabzonspor is being 4 points behind league leaders Basaksehirspor with 3 weeks to go.

Without any doubt Trabzonspor did come out to this game with other last 3 games with only aim to win its games to keep its hopes for title to be arrive but loss of this 2 points would provide high level damage. It needs to be noted that Trabzonspor did provide good performance during whole game despite of conceding goal from opponent penalty on early moments but its effective performance at the front hasnt been at high level. It needs to be noted also that team star player Alexandr Sorloth who tends to provide important part for side to be at title race, didnt provide strong and dominant performance in such important game which also pushed team not to provide this usual performance. With Trabzonspor losing point while getting ahead lost another 2 points and would now be awaiting for Basaksehirspor to lose points in such short period.

It needs to be noted that Antalyaspor didnt provide specifically attacking football with high tempo game did provide high level organised performance not allowing them to get into confident mood and did preveant them to get into good opportunities which led them to get deserved 1 point.

Trabzonspor did lose important 2 points and did put its chances for league title to be awaiting from some loss of points from Basaksehirspor which means it should be highly luck condition.

Sivasspor continues its downfall following Covid19 break 

Sivasspor continues to be losing points with this time losing to Yeni Malatyaspor with 1:0 scoreline and providing very poor performance following Covid 19 break with only winning one game and losing all its mathematical chances for title and in risk with losing 3rd position.

Sivasspor didnt provide once again ineffective performance this time against Yeni Malatyaspor even through it did play against opponent which are in similar level of team. Hence, it needs to be also noted that Sivasspor even through isnt being top 4, its supporters before pandemic did provide important push towards its players and hence decision to play without supporters did have unwanted result and let side to lose its motivation. Therefore, Sivasspor looks to be in difficult condition right now and does have risk of ending season outside of top 4 even through loss of points of its direct opponents does provide hope especially when it would meet with Fenerbahce next week.
Meanwhile, Yeni Malatyaspor which have mixture of performance during this season did provide organised performance and with goal by Acquah did get 3 points in this game and would be aiming to end season at high note.

Sivasspor is ending season not in the note which it would be hoping for to provide better performance against Fenerbahce aiming to get 3 points and keep its position for top 3 position.

Galatasaray continues losing points following Covid19 resume of the league

Galatasaray continues its not winning period during the league following Covid 19 break this time losing to Alanyaspor with 4:1 scoreline with providing very poor performance and showing that as side it is motivated to league in low level, even through injuries also played its role.

It needs to be noted that Galatasaray did start game well and did find high number of the chances during whole game but still was missing that crucial last touches awhich did play its crucial role for getting further from title aims and also mistakes done in the defence which did lead with side with conceding 4 goals during this game. Interestingly all of the goals did come in the end of the two halves, where Galatasaray even through did score in last minute of 1st half clearly showed that it did lose concentration. It looks that Galatasaray due of general poor performance for most part of the season and especially towards end of this season, has reduced motivation for last games and currently are having huge risk of being outside of top 4 which could mean to be outside of European football next season.

On other hand, Alanyaspor looked to be much more focussed towards game and did provide much more organised and concentrated performance. With teams above of them losing points in this days, Alanyaspor moved from 8 to 6th place and currently is being 3 points away from 3rd spot Sivasspor.

Galatasaray didnt win for 7 weeks and its questionable if it would get win for last 3 games with such motivation and mood which is pleasant on the team right now.

Results: 

Turkish Super League, 31st week:

Trabzonspor 2:2 Antalyaspor

Sivasspor 0:1 Yeni Malatyaspor

Alanyaspor 4:1 Galatasaray

Goztepe 2:2 Ankaragucu

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 31st week:

18:30 Rizespor - Kayserispor

21:00 Besiktas - Kasimpasa

21:00 Gaziantep- Konyaspor

In other news:

- TFF has made following decisions:

- Turkish Cup final between Trabzonspor and Alanyaspor will take place on 29th July at 21:30
- Super League 2020/21 season will start on 11th September and end on 16th May.
- Summer transfer window will start on 4th August and last until 5th September.
- Foreign limit for next season will stay as 14, but maximum 8 players can be on field.

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EuropaLeague final 8 draw would take place on 10th July. Basaksehirspor last 16 1st leg game against Copenhagen has ended with 1:0 scoreline.

- Kayserispor has announced that all of its players, technical and staff members Covid19 tests has turned out to be negative.

- TFF administrator Ismail Erdem: We would be playing our 1st game of Nations League against Hungary at Sivas on 3rd September. We still need to go through some formalities, but official statement would be done in short period.

- Galatasaray considers to sell its player Radamel Falcao during summer transfer window.

- Alanyaspor has transferred 1860 Munchen player Efkan Bekiroglu.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Sivasspor player Caner Osmanpasa

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Goztepe player Alpaslan Ozturk.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Alanyaspor player Tasos Bakasetas

- Besiktas player Domadoj Vida agent has send 11 million euro warning for not recieving salary

- Galatasaray has offered 1.5 million euro extension contract to its player Ryan Donk for 1+1 years

- Fenerbahce player Jailson considers to leave club during summer transfer window.