03 April 2021

What happened in Turkish football today? 02/04/2021


 

Galatasaray would come out to Hatayspor with some serious absences.

Galatasaray are going to resume its title race following international team break with most surprising side of this season Hatayspor in away game with coming out number of absences due of Covid-19, injuries and card fines.

In addition to this Galatasaray head coach would be starting his 2-game ban during this game and taking account that side does struggle without Terim on sidelines for most of the time, it would be expected to be pretty difficult game for them. With hardly having ideal defence area would be also be expected to provide some issues to Galatasaray against attacking side which focusses into showing positive game and also fights to end league in top 5 spots. Galatasaray would be coming out with difficult conditions but being directly in the title race could provide needed motivation to side which could key for them. Meanwhile,Hatayspor would pretty likely to see this game as good opportunity with opponent having such issues.

It is game which is hard to predict and would be interesting to see how Galatasaray response with so much issues in its hand.

Trabzonspor would focus to start winning streak against Sivasspor.

Trabzonspor would be resuming its season with what expects to be pretty tough game against Sivasspor with aiming to keep its title hopes alive despite of point difference with seeing this game as new beginning.

Getting further from title race in recent weeks, did affect to confidence, motivation of players which hence affected directly to their performance but this break allowed to get through from trauma and have new beginning in last stage of this unusual season. However, it would be playing Sivasspor which does show strong improvement from start of the season and much more closer to side which we saw on previous season and hence would be providing some issue to Trabzonspor. Sivasspor to some extend is known how would play, issue is how much focussed would be Trabzonspor as if it would be playing for win it would be closer to get it.

Trabzonspor did last 10 games for high points but result of this game would provide them confidence and motivation to achieve this.

Spread of Covid19 took place at Turkish National Team camp.

Up to 14 players from Turkish National Team has got positive Covid19 test results after returning from national team duty which does raise how come such number is being so high.

Even through number of cases has been drastically rising in Turkey, it needs to be aware that spread within team as there were "isolated" from outside world during this camp and games. It became clear that spread did come from 2 players who arrived to side with positive results. It became clear that side did provide their tests, which followed from dinner by whole side together and later training side with whole side, later test results did arrive with 2 players getting positive result. Hence, it is predicted that virus did spread in such condition with extra precaution which needed to be taken were not in place. 

Our page for year did mention several times that extra precautions would need to be taken both for health of players and not having negative impact to clubs, but it does look in this case it wasnt going through. 

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 32nd week:

13:30 Kayserispor - Goztepe

16:00 Sivasspor - Trabzonspor

16:00 Rizespor - Fatih Karagumurk

19:00 Hatayspor - Galatasaray

In other news:

Basaksehirspor has announced that 1 player got positive Covid19 test result.

- Lille head coach Christophe Gaitier has stated that team player Zeki Celik got positive Covid19 test result.

- Genclerbirligi has announced that 1 player got positive Covid19 test result.

- Trabzonspor has made sponsorship deal with Mekap Deri for 1 year for 1,900,000 TL

- TFF has appointed referee Abdulkadir Bitigen in place of Firat Aydinus who has Covid19 to Super League 32nd week game between Hatayspor-Galatasaray game.

- TFF has announced that 2 referees and 1 referee has got positive Covid19 test result.

- Trabzonspor player Benik Afobe has become injured.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Milan player Jens Peter Hauge.

- Goztepe are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Martin Linnes and Sener Ozbayrakli.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Dinamo Kiev player Gerson Rodrigues.

Fatih Karagumruk player Alpaslan Erdem has become injured.

TFF has stated that there was no decision to pay any bonuses to anyone at Turkish National Team and there was no request for it. All news stating otherwise dont represent truth.

- Trabzonspor CEO Ahmet Agaoglu has stated that Central Referee Committee has issues systematically and called clubs to focus into solving referee issues to whole teams.

- OlympiqueLyon are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan

- Nantes, Angers and St Etienne are interested to transfer Hatayspor player Rayane Aabid.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Le Havre player Umut Meras

- FortunaDusseldorf player Kenan Karaman got positive Covid19 test result.

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