What happened in Turkish football today? 24/10/2021

Fenerbahce lost to Alanyaspor despite dominating game.

Fenerbahce has lost against Alanyaspor with 2:1 scoreline despite of being side which been dominating both with opportunities and possession with letting opponent to score from literally 2 positions.

Fenerbahce did come to this game with focus to show strong reaction following issues which happened last week against in and outside of the field, and when looking into opportunities which it created among tempo it could be admitted that side showed reaction but didnt manage to find more than 1 goal. To some extend, it could be argued that too much on Serdar Dursun, who even through did find goal, did have lots of pressure towards him as tactically it was to him and willingness to score which did lead for him looking for some difficult opportunities. Stating that Berke Ozer who did play on goalkepeer position even through did concede from only opportunities of opponent, those were not easy to safe positions and hence should not be heavily criticised. It needs to be noted that Fenerbahce did provide good tempo and possessing ball but did have issues with converting which needs to be worked on or it would have some issues in similar games like this during this season.

Despite of Alanyaspor, beating one of the strongest sides in this league didnt actually provide very good game especially during 1st half but did change some tactical and willingness looked to be much more attacking game during 2nd half and been to some extend to be lucky.

Fenerbahce did provide some willing football but did have some issues with converting opportunities which could be most important lesson from game.

Trabzonspor gets win through detirmination.

Trabzonspor did get very important win against Goztepe thanks to the Gervinho even through it did provide one of the most ineffective game during this season and did get certainly lucky and crucial win.

With beating Fenerbahce during previous week, its been important without doubt to get win against Goztepe to continue its leadership and morale and it got that with focus into winning rather then showing very good game, as Goztepe has been one which did create high number of opportunities especially towards end of the game where Izmir side has pushed Trabzonspor into its own defence line. Still, some very good performance from defensive side did manage to keep scoreline as 1:0 and without doubt this belief and detirmanation to get title in the end of the season did provide some strong performance towards end.

Trabzonspor are being in good form without doubt and with such morale would be very tough to beat as their shown for 1/4 of the season.

Its hard to call favourite at derby game.

Besiktas and Galatasaray derby game without doubt would be having with high expectations and to some extend would be open to any outcome, but Galatasaray in recent weeks are being on better form.

Galatasaray did organise open training session in its stadium with its supporters, which to some extend could be criticised for such decision to be made during pandemic times but tends to focussed into providing some morale to players, among financial reasons. However, it needs to be noted that Galatasaray didnt provide usually good results following this training session which it done beforehand so it is questionable how helpful it is for them. Besiktas meanwhile did get some unwanted result in recent weeks and certainly coming out to derby game could provide them willingness to get new start with huge motivation and confidence possible win could bring them.

It would be tough to call favourite but both sides would provide high level performance with some tension for sure.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 10th week:

Fatih Karagumruk 1:1 Hatayspor

Antalyaspor 1:2 Basaksehirspor

Sivasspor 1:1 Adana Demirspor

Fenerbahce 1:2 Alanyaspor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 10th week:

20:00 Besiktas - Galatasaray

In other news:

- Alanyaspor: As club, we are worried to see for some clubs to make statements which aims to put pressure towards referees. Some clubs call for free penalties, foul , corner kicks. We see calls for change of referee system which focuses to put pressure towards them

- Galatasaray has set bonus for win against Besiktas during Super League as 4 million TL.

- Kasimpasa are close to make deal with Cihan Arslan for head coach position.