What happened in Turkish football today? 13/04/2021

 

Fenerbahce showed strong attacking game against Gaziantep.

Fenerbahce did show much more attacking focussed game compare to recent week during Super League 34th week game against Gaziantep but did have some issues with defensive game especially towards end of the game.

Even through as been noted there were some downsides in the sense of defensive game towards end of the game, it still showed much strong attacking game with controlling ball confidently during 1st half even through surprising it did find goal during 2nd half with 3 goals from Mert Hakan Yandas scoring goal which he was scoring last season being probably most eye-catching one. Issue with Fenerbahce however that with focussing into attacking game, it does provide some mistakes at defence which allowed Gaziantep to get into high number of opportunities as game progressed and hence this should be an area which it would need to be focussed on upcoming weeks.

With such result, Fenerbahce did reduce point difference to 4 points with having  1 less game then leaders Besiktas but most importantly has 4 points advantage over Galatasaray.

Turkish Cup final would be played at Izmir on 18th May.

TFF has announced that Turkish Cup game between Besiktas and Antalyaspor would be taking place at Goztepe Gursel Aksel Stadium on 18th May as both sides would be giving high level game very likely in the end of the season.

It needs to be noted that Izmir didnt host major tournament for pretty long time which hence would be seen as good development for them as game would be played on the field which been constructed last season and so far does provide some good visual experience with being pretty modern stadium. Besiktas which aims right now for double would be possibly coming out to this game as Turkish Cup with already winning title while Antalyaspor would focus into making history from this game.

It would be exciting high level game and Izmir stadium could provide needed excitement with hosting this game for sure.

Referee issue in league is collective one.

Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz has announced that referees are taking strong stance against his club hence joining all other clubs with blaming referees with poor results. 

Foremost, it is important to note that our page does see and admit that there is referee issues which for most of time does affect into final result. We are believing this is more related to performance of referees rather some scenarios taking behind back. We are seeing not any club is happy with performance of referees, so hence it is collective issue at the clubs so it would be more productive to focus on this issues in such manner as blaming each other is certainly will not be solution of this issue at all for sure. However, each club sees this issue as personnel and by that tries to move referees into pressure to be on their side for upcoming weeks.

Central Referee Committee needs to be cautious from such pressure from all clubs but certainly needs to look ways how to improve its performances.

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:

- Rizespor player Gokhan Akkan has recieved 1-game ban and 13,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship actions.

- Erzurumspor has recieved 24,000 TL fine for events on field.

- Sivasspor has recieved 24,000 TL for not following guidelines.

- Sivasspor worker ErhanErdogan got 13,000 TL fine for not following guidelines.

- Genclerbirligi got 100,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship statements.

- Trabzonspor administrator Ali Surmen got 45-days of deprivation of rights and 50,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship statements.

- PFDK referalls:

- Hatayspor has been referred for accepting unallowed supporters to game. - Rizespor administrator Yasin Ipek been referred for not following guidelines and losing documents wrongly. - Galatasaray has been referred for events on field. - Galatasaray player RyanDonk and Sivasspor player Hakan Arslan been referred for breaking rules. - Sivasspor workers Erdal Sarilar and Erkan Bicer for actions#Konyaspor trainer Bekir Arpaci - Kayserispor has been referred for events on field and not following guidelines - Erzurumspor been for not following guidelines. - Erzurumspor administrator Omer Duzgun for anti-sportmanship statements.

- Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir has been appoined as referee for Europa League game between Sparta Prague and Arsenal.

- Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz doesnt consider to run for CEO election.

- Goztepe player Titi has terminated contract with his club.

- Kayserispor player Ilhan Parlak has become injured.

- Galatasaray player Henry Onyekuru will not play for 2 weeks due of injury.

- LeicesterCity has set transfer fee of Besiktas-loaned player Racchid Ghezzal as 7 million euro.

- Arsenal are interested to transfer Lille player Yusuf Yazici.

- Stuttgart has made transfer deal with Fenerbahce player Omer Faruk for 4-years

- Trabzonspor player Yunus Malli will not be playing for 7-10 days due of injury.