10 February 2021

What happened in Turkish football today? 09/02/2021



 Basaksehirspor gets to semi-final with beating Fenerbahce.

Basaksehirspor has reached to Turkish Cup quarter-final game against Fenerbahce with 2:1 scoreline as their opponents did play for most amount of time did play with extra minute following red card of Lemos which did put Fenerbahce into difficulty period. 

Its been curious how Basaksehirspor would be responding during this game due of pretty poor performance been close to relegation zone in Turkish Cup hence would be giving tournament serious or not due of this, and it did look to be as side did provide good controllable game without providing too much opportunity to Fenerbahce, with providing strong attacking game. This has also been 1st win for Aykut Kocaman at his new club as he joined side for 3rd game providing strong confident game even through red card of Lemos did affect. Basaksehirspor even despite of this circusmtances did provide some improvement from recent performance and got strong attitute and focus of the game. Therefore, its been tough schedule but Basaksehirspor did get fair result in the end of the day without doubt using strong opportunities using opportunities from Fenerbahce goalkeeper Harun Tekin some mistakes while defending.

Fenerbahce on their part did start game with many numbers of players who are not regular starting 11 players which did affect to its performance during whole 1st half especially which did prevent side to provide high level tempo game with letting in some moments for Basaksehirspor to get control of the ball. Still, it needs to be admitted that Fenerbahce conceding goal on 42nd minute which also led for Mauricio Lemos to get red card in foul before moment when referee allowed for game to go on advantage. But it needs to be noted despite of loss that even after getting into such position side did provide strong attitude with trying their best with getting equaliser on 72nd minute with Valencia which led for additional time where their also tried their best to get equaliser after conceding from Gulbrandssen during 96th minute. Fenerbahce hence did provide some positive performance after red card but in the end of the day been side which been eliminated from Basaksehirspor which is not very good season.

With Basaksehirspor getting through semi-final of Turkish Cup does provide opportunity for them to end season with cup and Europa League in this tournament. On other hand, Fenerbahce didnt get result which their seek for but on other hand it would now focus into title race in league.  

Trabzonspor continues to close gap with top clubs.

Trabzonspor has reduced point difference with league leaders Besiktas, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce to 6 points as it managed to win Yeni Malatyaspor with 2:0 scoreline at difficult football condition.

Since Abdullah Avci has joined side due of poor performance shown by Eddie Newton, Trabzonspor does provide best results in this league with seriously providing to top 3 not due of closing gap but more importantly of getting strong results giving signs that it would be aiming to close this gap. It was very important without doubt for Trabzonspor to get this win in sense of confidence as it did play game in pretty difficult conditions due of field conditions and most importantly one which does stop to show top game. In such field, it was important to win game without much focus how this win would be gained and with having strong attacking player like Bakasetas and Nwakaeme it did find good goals with top clubs also occassionally losing points did lead them to reduce point difference from 11 to 6 points in very short period of time. 

Trabzonspor are getting results with good performance while closing gap with top clubs and likely to be at title race until end of the season with such performance.

Newly signings has opportunity to show themselves against Alanyaspor

Without doubt the most anticipating and excited Turkish Cup quarter-final would be between Galatasaray and Alanyaspor as both sides does provide performance with aiming for top posiiton in the league.

With getting some new signings during mid-season transfers Galatasaray has opportunity to provide more playing time, especially DeAndre Yedlin, Gerson Fernandes and Halil Dervisoglu some playing to get adapted to a team with them being selected to starting 11 even being possibility without doubt. Only player who might be at substitution is Gerson Fernandes who just came out from quarantine period and hence might not be entirely ready to becoming on field. Alanyaspor in recent weeks does have unstable performance but despite of that does show some good performance in most games and hence would be coming out with strong motivation and confidence aiming to provide some difficult time for Galatasaray.

Therefore, this game among providing top performance would also lead to check and provide some time for new signings. 

Results:

Turkish Cup, Quarter-Final:

Fenerbahce 1:2 Basaksehirspor

Schedule:

Turkish Cup, Quarter-Final:

20:45 Galatasaray - Alanyaspor

In other news:

PFDK decisions:

- Konyaspor administrator Vahdi Karacaoglu has recieved 4,500 TL for not wearing mask.
- Kayserispor player Cristian Sapunaru got 13,000 TL for anti-sportmanship behaviour.

PFDK referalls:

- Alanyaspor trainer Francesco Farioli, Galatasaray player Arda Turan has been referred for his actions.
- Rizespor and Ankaragucu been referred for 6 players getting yellow cards.
- Denizlispor worker Deniz Kodal been referred for anti-sportmanship action.
-Fenerbahce been referred for events on field, and not following guidelines.
- Fenerbahce trainer Semih Senturk for entering to referee room and not following guidelines.

- Konyaspor has appointed Ilhan Palut as club's head coach for 1.5 years

- Erzurumspor player Mostapha El Kabir will not play for 3 weeks due of injury.

- Denizlispor administrators Levent Caputcu, Can Cesur, Ozan Katranci and Kaan Sanlikan has resigned from their post.

- Konyaspor has made principal deal with Ilhan Palut for head coach position for 1+1,5 years

- Galatasaray has started 1+1 year extension contract negotiations with Ryan Donk.

- Ankaragucu CEO Fatih Mert has announced that club has made principal with coach Hikmet Karaman for head coach position.

- Galatasaray has organised signing ceremony of its players De Andre Yedlin, Henry Onyekuru, Mostafa Mohamed and Gedson Fernandes.

- Milan has offered 4 million euro+bonuses to its player Hakan Calhanoglu for extension, while player requests 5 million euro.

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