30 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 29/04/2022



Fenerbahce continues its winning streak beating Gaziantep this time.

Fenerbahce continues winning games back-to-back as this time it has won against Gaziantep with 3:2 scoreline and continues its fight for 2nd spot with 3 weeks games to be played and also didnt let Trabzonspor to celebrate its title on day before they game.

Fenerbahce it needs to be started with high tempo with looking into attacking game and did found an early goal thanks to the goal of Diego Rossi who did show great run into the game and after that goal did continue showing high tempo game but as game progressed Gaziantep did get back into game and balanced on the field. Therefore, it could be stated that despite of good start of the game, Fenerbahce didnt show as good game as it did during last week mainly due of Gaziantep showing much more organised game. However, it needs to be noted that Fenerbahce did play with focus to win game and showed that performance for most amount of the game with stating in the game. Only issue where Fenerbahce did have some issues has been between 2:1 and 3:1 where it did have issue to get an upper hand until Zajc has scored on 82nd minute. However, it needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did look into organised and provided strong game.

Gaziantep on they part despite of poor start of the game did manage to show good organised game and could even drawn game if it didnt concede on 82nd minute. Gaziantep right now still could be relegated mathematically, but very likely would stay in the league in the end of the week as Rizespor and Altay would need to win.

Fenerbahce did get another win and would now focus to finish season with 3 out of 3 and finish league in the 2nd spot.

Trabzonspor would come out with aim to get its first title since 1984.

Trabzonspor would be coming to the game against Antalyaspor only needing to get 1 point to get first title since 1984, but their opponents are having strong run without losing for 10 games.

However, even if Antalyaspor is being in the great form, Trabzonspor does come out with many factors which could lead for them what they are seeking for as 2 outcomes out of 3 would be enough for them, strong supporters support who would come to the game after which they aim to celebrate title, players willingness to end the task on the day. In addition, Antalyaspor even through does have chances for top 4, getting draw from this game will be seen as bad result for them. When looking all of this perspectives, mainly emotional and psychological does put Trabzonspor. Only issue which could provide some problems to Trabzonspor and which been seen in recent weeks is calmness that even if they lose they still be main candidate for title and this could go in hand for Antalyaspor.

Trabzonspor would come out with an aim at least not to lose, but would Antalyaspor allow them to get such aim would become clear.

Burak Elmas would announce Galatasaray CEO election date next week.

Galatasaray CEO election has been going through high number of twists and turns during this month, and the final decision means that election scheduled on 30th April would be cancelled.

Galatasaray CEO Burak Elmas during today's press conference, has renewed his statement that he would not run as CEO candidate for election which would be taking on another date. He also adds that decision when election would be taking place will be made next week. With such decision he has kept his word after his period wasnt expected by club members,of having CEO election in whatever circumstances. With CEO candidates asking for earliest date for CEO election to be on 30th May, it would be expected for that to be date as Burak Elmas would go through with other members of his administration when it would be best day to have election.

One thing is certain, club's storyline of CEO election would be continued for another month with some other developments could be taking place.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 35th week:
Fenerbahce 3:2 Gaziantep
Giresunspor 2:0 Adana Demirspor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 35th week:
16:00 Konyaspor - Fatih Karagumruk
16:00 Kasimpasa- Basaksehirspor
20:30 Trabzonspor - Antalyaspor
20:30 Hatayspor - Altay

In other news:
- - TFF has announced that Super League 2022-23 season will start on 4-6 August and will end on 28th May. Due of World Cup 2022 mid-season break will start on 14th November.
- TFF has announced that play-off round of 1st league will take place in following dates:
1st leg semi-final: 25th May
2nd leg semi-final: 29th May
Final: 2nd June
- Altay has terminated contract with its players Daouda Bamba and Marco Paixao.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer RB Leipzig player Ilaix Moriba.
- Basaksehirspor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Mauricio Lemos.
- Besiktas sports director Ceyhun Kazanci: We would be buying 5-6 players during this summer. We have given 2 million euro salaries, this will not be case anymore.We will not give more than 2 million euro for transfer fee too.
- NewcastleUnited and Leeds United has started transfer negotiations with Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.
- Torino has offered 4 million+1 million euro bonus for Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz with 20% share of next transfer.

29 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 28/04/2022



Fenerbahce expects to show attacking game against Gaziantep.

Fenerbahce would be continuing its aim to end season at the 2nd spot as it would be meeting with struggling Gaziantep at recent weeks in the game which result would be also awaited from Trabzonspor too.

Fenerbahce are being right now in very good form without losing last 10 games in the league and is expected to continue this run against with Gaziantep as it focussed towards ending this season at the 2nd spot. Gaziantep on they part are showing poor results in recent weeks and also doesnt provide any signs that it would show any improvement within 4 weeks left at the season. Fenerbahce is expected to show once again strong attacking game which it provides in recent weeks and hence provide pressure to Gaziantep goal. Meanwhile, Trabzonspor would be also awaiting for the outcome of this game as any loss of points from Fenerbahce would mean it would get title even before against Antalyaspor.

Fenerbahce are being favourites in the game and are expected to performance according to that.

Besiktas will have CEO election on 29th May

Besiktas has announced that it would have CEO election on 22nd May, and if majority is not gathered electiond date would be moved to 29th May.

It is expected that Besiktas current CEO Ahmet Nur Cebi would be running as single candidate, even through there are some criticism towards him from some supporters due of poor performance during this season. There could ebexpectations that some CEO candidates might coming out but it is hard to see if any is capable to provide any competition towards him in this current situation. Still, it would be interesting to see how this would be developing at the club upcoming developments.

Besiktas would be going through CEO election period and we would follow developments.

Firat Deviroglu has once again send request to cancel Galatasaray CEO election.

Galatasaray administrator Firat Deviroglu seems not to be giving up his aim to cancel CEO election of the club as he sends other request to court to cancel election on 30th April.

Firat Deviroglu seems to be detirmined as he believes that not accepting Burak Elmas administration team is not being done right and also would damage Galatasaray as club if such practice would be done in upcoming CEO after short period of some unsuccessful decisions which been done in the club. With CEO election expecting to be taking place on weekend there is being short period for decison to be made and is unlikely that it would be on his side final decision.

Galatasaray continues in administrative matter going through interesting period and it would be interesting to see what would be final decision by court.

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 35th week:
20:30 Fenerbahce - Gaziantep
20:30 Giresunspor - Adana Demirspor

In other news:
- TFF has announced Turkish Cup semi-final 2nd leg schedule:
10/05, 20:30: Kayserispor-Trabzonspor
11/05, 20:30: Sivasspor- Alanyaspor
PFDK decisions:
- Fatih Karagumruk, Giresunspor, Besiktas, Altay and Adana Demirspor has recieved 32,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans.
- Fatih Karagumruk player Jimmy Durmaz has recieved 1-game ban and 13,000 TL fine  for his action.
- Rizespor and Altay stands has been blocked due of behaviour of fans.
- Rizespor player Fabricio Santos has recieved 2-game ban and 8,500 TL fine due of breaking rules.
- TFF has changed 4th referee of Super League 35th week game of Galatasaray and Sivasspor from Abdullah Bugra Taskinsoy to Ozan Ergun due of health conditions.
- Altay CEO election has been postponed due of fight which  took place during it.
- Besiktas has signed professional contract with its academy players Emirhan Delibas, Berkay Vardar, Necati Bilgic, Serkan Emircan Terzi until 2025 and Goktug Baytekin until 2023 
- Milan and Sevilla are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Victor Nelsson.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Al Nassr player Vincent Aboubakar.
- Fenerbahce are interested to appoint Vitor Guimaraes head coach Pepa as club's head coach.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Club Brugge player Bas Dost.
- Besiktas player Umut Meras has become injured
- Fenerbahce has made extension deal with its player Serdar Aziz for 2+1-years.



28 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 27/04/2022



Trabzonspor ready to celebrate title.

Trabzonspor are preparing to celebrate its title on 30th April as it would be meeting with Antalyaspor if it gets at least 1 point as long as Fenerbahce wins its game against Gaziantep.

Even through Antalyaspor is being good form in recent weeks and will not let Trabzonspor to achieve aim easier, Trabzonspor would be coming out with strong motivation to get at least draw among getting very strong support from its own fans which would be pushing for that title. Even through premature celebration from some supporters and also head coach Abdullah Avci could be criticised, getting 1 point at worst case scenario in upcoming games does show that Trabzonspor are almost close to win title. In fact, its much more like Champio rather then Champ sort of speak. It also needs to be reminded that if Fenerbahce loses point to Gaziantep on day before, it would be coming out to the game as league winners arleady. Therefore, there is expected to be very strong atmosphere as Trabzonspor would be aiming to end its 38 wait against Antalyaspor.

Trabzonspor are very likely to celebrate its title on 30th April and would have huge party without doubt.

Jorge Jesus admits having negotiations with Fenerbahce.

Jorge Jesus has announced that there is talks with Fenerbahce but stated that there is no deal between sides.

With Joachim Low providing some difficulties with Fenerbahce, mainly financial ones, club has moved its focus into Jorge Jesus who even through also expects high salary, does seem to be going much better condition. Stating its still unclear, if Ismail Kartal with who side didnt lose game for last 10 games should be staying as head coach or not as many administrators and supporters would like to him to stay, and so does this blog things. Hence, Ali Koc does have difficult decision but it does look like future of Ismail Kartal would depend into conditions of negotiations with Jorge Jesus.

Ali Koc possibly currently keeps Jorge Jesus as B plan next to Ismail Kartal or he has some other roles for Turkish coach with Jesus being head coach.

CEO election results at Galatasaray would decide from where coach will be next season.

Galatasaray is getting ready for CEO election which would be taking place between Metin Ozturk and Esref Hamamcioglu on 30th April.

Among club's financial issues within the club, the main effect of this result would also have direct effect to who would be head coach of the team in the future. Even through both Hamamcioglu and Ozturk didnt complete run-out Domenec Torrent option, mainly due of compensation issue, both state that they would not work with him if they are unsatisfied. Issue here is who would take his place as Esref Hamamcioglu is more focused with more experienced foreign coach while Metin Ozturk would work with Turkish coach. Therefore, this election result would have direct impact to upcoming season for sure.

Hence, CEO election results would have big interest from supporters of football club for sure.

In other news:
- Trabzonspor will have training session with its supporters at Medical Park Arena on 29th April.
- Trabzonspor player Bruno Peres had an operation.
- Galatasaray player Marcao has become injured.
- Galatasaray player Sofiane Feghouli has resumed training session after recovering from injury.
- Galatasaray CEO candidate Metin Ozturk states that he aims to make 4-5 transfers if he is elected.
- GlasgowRangers are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Olimpiu Morutan
- Fenerbahce has set transfer fee of its player Arda Guler as 30 million euro.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Trezeguet
- Kasimpasa player Ertugrul Taskiran agent Murat Erdogan has stated that Fenerbahce are having transfer negotiation with player.
- Jorge Jesus has stated that he did have negotiations with Fenerbahce for head coach role but there is no agreement.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Strasbourg player Alexander Djiku.
- NewcastleUnited are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.
- Fenerbahce player Mert Hakan Yandas has resumed training session
- Kasimpasa player Jackson Muleka agent Jean Willy Ngoma has stated that Galatasaray, Besiktas, Trabzonspor and Fenerbahce are interested to transfer him.


27 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 26/04/2022


 

Valerien Ismael did get reality check of Turkish football.

Besiktas head coach Valerien Ismael has got his first loss in his new team as side did lose to Kasimpasa with 3:0 scoreline and is currently being 6 points behind of 4th spot with 12 points available until end of the season.

Besiktas has provided not only one of its worst games with Valerien Ismael but also among whole season as it couldnt provide response to Kasimpasa tempo as opponents did provide strong and smart game and did find nice and tactically smart goals. It did look to some extend that Besiktas has not been fully focussed into game or did lack motivation. Also this might lead for Valerien Ismael to go through his tactical game as side did only win one game during this season and had shown decline of performance. With probability for European football is getting lower, even through there is hope for 5th spot if Trabzonspor wins Turkish Cup, it might be smart to give some time to younger players.

Besiktas are being among side who has been in decline as we enter to last weeks of the season and could have risk of losing concentration.

Burak Elmas aims to clean his name.

Galatasaray CEO Burak Elmas among 9 administrators, has went into court to cancel decision of general meeting not to support his reign as CEO prior to an early CEO election on 30th April.

It is been announced by club that this decision would not negatively affect to CEO election process and would be taking place and sole aim is to get its right to question decision. Galatasaray has went through into more activity in recent weeks more from outside of field issues and it does look to be continuing in upcoming period and even after CEO election. But good news is that both CEO candidates could provide its focus to the election period and make sure they come to election in good condition.

Therefore, Burak Elmas decision would be focussed to clean his name and will not impact to CEO election at all.

Altay has called not to register this season.

Altay, which does have possibility to be relegated following this weekend games, has announced that it is expecting for this season not to be registered due of some events which happened, namely referee scandals which includes taking away 13 referees and after being ruled out.

It needs to be mentioend that TFF and general Turkish football has went through much more activity during this season compare to Super League season and had high number of resignation with CEO Nihat Ozdemir has been biggest one but also included twice changing of Central Referee Committee, with Ferhat Gundogdu taking especially big focus as his decision not to accept 13 referees has been ruled out from arbitration committee. In other hand, Altay being almost relegated to make such statement had some impact regardless how much club declines that and states its been done for greater good and justice of Turkish football.

With it knowing that question of registration is being on going, Altay has been one of the few to make statement about matter to open and it would be interesting to see if other clubs would follow suit.

In other news:
- PFDK referalls:
-Rizespor, Adana Demirspor, Altay has been referred due of events on field and behaviour of fans.
- Rizespor player Fabricio Jesus been referred for breaking rules.
- Fatih Karagumruk, Giresunspor, Besiktas has been referred for events on field.
- FatihKaragurmuk has been referred due of actions.
- ClubsUnion will be hosting European League Union meeting in Istanbul between 28-29th April.
- Galatasaray football team communication specialist Emrah Karaoglu has resigned from his post.
- ShakhtarDonetsk has announced that UAH 5 million (159,090 euro) been raised during friendly charity game against Fenerbahce. 
- - Galatasaray will not use transfer option of Erick Pulgar.
- Galatasaray player Arda Turan considers to start head coach career after ending football career.
- Fenerbahce has announced that there is no deal made with Jorge Jesus.


26 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 25/04/2022



Valerien Ismael got 1st loss at Besiktas.

Besiktas head coach Valerien Ismael has lost its 1st game with his new club with 3:0 scoreline against Kasimpasa as they opponents continued showing strong performance which it does in recent weeks.

With Besiktas going through transtion period and Ismael bringing new system which does have issues with tactical game of the opponent, it was expected to have some issues and this time its did come from Kasimpasa. Even through it needs to be mentioned that Kasimpasa did provide strong and confident performance, it still needs to be admitted that Besiktas did have decline of its performance with noone in the field getting upper hand of the game and didnt provide much issue to opponent goal. It is true that Besiktas did create some very good opportunities as game been developing and did create some strong opportunities but it continued an issue with converting goals as it didnt score. What is more problematic in this game has been poor defence which for sure been noticed with Valerien Ismael.

As been noted, Kasimpasa continued showing strong and positive game with being always inside the game and did find with 3 goals which been well-worked and quality goals especially with Muleka taking upper hand of the side.

Besiktas with this loss is getting 6 points away from relegation zone and with 12 points only being available in this season, it did put its aim for Conference League into big difficulty.

Galatasaray is out of concentration as it comes to formality games.

Galatasaray has managed to get 1:0 win against struggling Altay with 1:0 scoreline thanks to Kerem Akturkoglu but it needs to be stated that side did provide poor performance especially during 2nd half.

With Galatasaray coming out to formalities games and waiting when upcoming 4 games would be over, it would be natural to expect for Galatasaray with having lack of concentration towards to game and to some extend similar could be stated for Altay as its chances to stay in the league are being vague even through there would be expectation for side to show some fighting spirit. In fact, it needs to be mentioned that Altay did show such kind of performance on 2nd half with creating opportunities but did have lack of converting goals. Altay on their part could be relegated in upcoming weeks very likely as it has 10 points from Giresunspor with 4 games left until end of the season.

Galatasaray did manage to get win but it is out of concentration for sure due of staying without aims.

Torrent needs to convince Metin Ozturk to stay at club for next season.

Galatasaray CEO candidate Metin Ozturk did state that he would work with current head coach Domenec Torrent next season if he manages to convince him that he can improve side for next season.

There has been lots of criticism towards Domenec Torrent due of poor results but it needs to be noted that statistically there is not much differences with performance he did with Fatih Terim earlier this season. Therefore, even through he didnt improve side which is being downside for him, he didnt have things worser either so maybe upcoming administrative needs to be aware that this maximum level which this squad can produce and its nothing to do with Torrent or any other coach. Torrent on his part now needs to identify issues which are present in the team and provide solution to newly-elected CEO which would become clear on 30th April and provide future plans if he wants to stay in the club.

Galatasaray upcoming CEO needs to understand what Torrent can do for upcoming season and then decide his future in the club.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 34th week:
Besiktas 0:3 Kasimpasa
Sivasspor 1:0 Alanyaspor
In other news:
- Antalyaspor has lost friendly charity game against Shakhtar Donetsk with 2:1 scoreline. 
- Rizespor sports director Fahri Tatan has resigned from his position.
- Trabzonspor player Bruno Peres has become injured.
- YeniMalatyaspor player Mustafa Eskihellac agent Bulent Ortakaya had one-on-one meeting with Besiktas administrators.
- Everton considers to extend contract with its player Cenk Tosun.
- Besiktas has made transfer deal with Yeni Malatyaspor player Mustafa Eskihellac, Alanyaspor player Tayfur Bingol, Goztepe player Halil Akbunar.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Vitesse player Louis Openda.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer River Plate player Nicolas de la Cruz.
- EintrachtFrankfurt and Hoffenheim are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz.
- Fenerbahce doesnt consider to sell its player Arda Guler during summer transfer window.
- Trabzonspor has made transfer deal with Altay player Kazimcan Karatas
- Fenerbahce are interested to appoint Dynamo Kyiv head coach Mircea Lucescu as club's head coach


25 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 24/04/2022



Galatasaray has put chances for Altay to stay at the league almost to none.

Galatasaray has got win against Altay thanks to the gola of Kerem Akturkoglu on 9th minute and has put chances to stay in the league for its opponent pretty low as Altay is being 10 points behind of Giresunspor with 4 games left in the season.

As been stated beforehand, Galatasaray is being currently in safe zone from relegation but also its chances for European football is being unexistant and this would affect negatively with side only coming out for formality games. It needs to be mentioned that this factor did affect to focus of the players especially after scoring goal on 9th minute. With Altay also not showing very strong and creative attacking game against them, it has shown some relaxation and has controlled game to its hand. Galatasaray only aim right now is being to end season at high note but without aim it would have issue to provide strong game and this been seen today also for 90 minutes despite of the win.

Altay it needs to be mentioned did show some attacking game and did control ball but it continued to have effective final touches and also creativity at the attack and without doubt it almost impossible to win game. Altay looks to be relegated as closing 10 point difference with 4 games and such game is being difficult task for sure.

Galatasaray will win games within last 4 games but due of its position it would not be much expected for them to show top game. 

Trabzonspor are point away from title.

Trabzonspor is being only 1 point until winning title after it has beaten Adana Demirspor with 3:1 scoreline as it has shown strong attitude in the start of the game and got 2:0 leadership at 12th minute.

Trabzonspor did show that it did come out for win as it provided forward focussed performance against tough opponent with providing pressure to Adana Demirspor which led for penalty decision, even through it is being debatable one as it could be argued that decision has been too harsh. With Cornelius making scoreline on 12th minute things went more into hand and it needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor did reduce tempo of the game and lost its effectiveness with last 15 minutes letting opponent to control ball. But it needs to be mentioned that this is not very important as Trabzonspor got what it want and would come out to game which it needs draw and also got rid of pressure which it could get during last 3 games.

Trabzonspor are very likely to become champions next week as they would be playing at home and does play right game in general when it needs draw result at least.

Besiktas would need to win for top 4 spot.

Besiktas would be going out to be pretty tough game against Kasimpasa which it needs to win if it wants to end season at the top 4 position.

Even through some positive aspects has been visible from Valerien Ismael it needs to be mentioned that it didnt get result which it was hoping for during last week and hence it would need to improve its performance for this game as Kasimpasa without doubt is being tough opponent which does show strong attacking game and also does have organised defensive game. Besiktas without doubt would need to provide much more creative game. Kasimpasa meanwhile would see this game as good opportunity to get result which it would be seeking for.

Besiktas are favourites but Kasimpasa would provide pretty serious issues to them for 90 minutes for sure.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 34th week:

Yeni Malatyaspor 2:3 Konyaspor

Basaksehirspor 3:0 Hatayspor

Altay 0:1 Galatasaray

Antalyaspor 1:1 Kayserispor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 34th week:

20:30 Besiktas - Kasimpasa

20:30 Sivasspor - Alanyaspor

In other news:

- Besiktas player Can Bozdogan has become injured.

- Besiktas head coach Valerien Ismael doesnt consider to transfer Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan.

- Besiktas has raised transfer fee of its player Ersin Destanoglu from 10 million euro to 12 million euro.

- FatihKaragumruk are interested to transfer Besiktas player Gokhan Tore.

- TottenhamHotspur has offered 8 million euro to Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Olympiakos player Gedson Fernandes.

- Juventus and Milan are interested to transfer Feyenoord player Orkun Kokcu.


24 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 23/04/2022



Trabzonspor only needs 1 point to win long-awaited title.

Trabzonspor is being only 1 point away from winning title after 37 years after beating Adana Demirspor with 3:1 scoreline as first 12 minutes of the game has been crucial for such win.

Without doubt, Trabzonspor did come out possibly to most important game during whole season as win would bring them incredibly close for historical title and other result would provide strong pressure to them for last 4 weeks with Fenerbahce being at great form. Trabzonspor got result which it seeked for and did provide its strongest 1st half from previous 4 games, as Turkish Cup win against Kayserispor without doubt had positive impact for this game also. To some extend it also been lucky in the sense of getting 1st goal as Abdulkadir Omur has provided very poor penalty but due of some players entering to penalty area earlier on the field which led for Perez to repeat penalty which been much better compare to Omur one. To some extend, Cornelius goal on 12th minute has been cherry on top of the cake as when it become 2:0 it was clear Adana Demirspor even through being strong side would have trouble to get back. Only negative point is that signs of being under pressure has been present at Trabzonspor towards last 20 minutes of the game but it got what it aimed and now only 1 point out of 4 games.

Adana Demirspor did come out without doubt for win, but with Trabzonspor scoring an early goal from penalty had negative impact into the team as it couldnt recover from that and hence conceded also on 12th minute. Adana Demirspor did show good game towards end but its been too late.

Trabzonspor cant lose focus as football is being interesting win, but Trabzonspor supporters can start its preparation for title celebrations.

Fenerbahce got confident win thanks to opponent 1st minute red card

Fenerbahce got confident win against Rizespor with 6:0 scoreline as opponent player Baiano red card on 1st minute of the game has ended game with arleady struggling Rizespor.

It needs to be noted that from Rizespor perspective Baiano has put down his side with such necessarily red card which couldnt understand why such angry and agressive decision has come. When taking account that Fenerbahce has shown its intentions to get win against its opponents as it got an strong attack prior to that red card made it clear that Fenerbahce did come as favourite and aimed to dominate game. With Fenerbahce still having mathematical chances for title and more importantly almost securing 2nd spot, Fenerbahce is being best form side in the end of the season and without doubt will be close to win all 4 games which left in the season. Its been especially present to see hat-trick from Serdar Dursun and got game from Arda Guler

Fenerbahce are showing right now best performance in the league and without doubt Ismail Kartal had direct impact for this to be taking place.

Altay needs win in this game more than Galatasaray.

Galatasaray which continues to be coming out to formality game without doubt would be playing against Altay which does come for its last chances to stay on the league with being 11 points behind Goztepe with 4 games left until end of the season.

Since Altay does have small but still chances to stay on the league, it would be accepted for them to be more focussed into the game while with Galatasaray only aim is to complete season in high note and to some extend get forgiven from its supporters. Hence, it would be expected for game to be defined with attitude how Altay would be treating game both in attack but more important in defence. Still, Galatasaray would be seen as favourite due of better morale then opponent and better quality with squad.

Galatasaray would be playing its formality game but still could be having some motivation pleasant for this game.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 34th week:
Fatih Karagumruk 2:1 Giresunspor
Gaziantep 1:1 Goztepe
Adana Demirspor 1:3 Trabzonspor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 34th week:
16:00 Yeni Malatyaspor - Konyaspor
16:00 Basaksehirspor - Hatayspor
20:30 Altay- Galatasaray
20:30 Antalyaspor - Kayserispor

In other news:
- Goztepe has been relegated from Super League
- Fenerbahce player Miguel Crespo had an operation.
- Besiktas CEO Ahmet Nur Cebi considers to include Tayfun Demiroren at his administrative board.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Altay player Kazimcan Karatas.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Torino player Andrea Belotti
- Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan considers to join Besiktas during summer transfer window.
- Besiktas considers to sell its player Ajdin Hasic during summer transfer window.
- Nice are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur.
- Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc has travelled to Portugal for one-on-one negotiations with Jorge Jesus for head coach position.


23 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 22/04/2022



Fenerbahce got confident win against Rizespor

Fenerbahce has got most confident win during this season as it beat Rizespor with 6:0 scoreline as red card from Baiano on 1st minute of the opponent has made Istanbul side to get easy win.

It needs to be mentioned that even through red card did come on 1st minute, Fenerbahce has started game on agressive manner with looking to goals even before that as it found very good opportunity within 8 seconds of the game. However, with Fenerbahce showing strong attitude with attacking game from start of the game and also red card from opponent did make things much easier. Without doubt 2 penalties from Serdar Dursun in additional time of 1st half, has ended game and has let Rizespor to lose concentration of the game. Staying with Serdar Dursun, he also scored on start of the 2nd half and hence has got hat-trick which led afterwards for total dominance for Fenerbahce. This been an easy win for Fenerbahce and this scoreline very likely would provide important motivation for last 4 weeks with fight to get 2nd spot.

Even through Rizespor is being close to be relegated when looking how it performed in recent week and also still aiming to provide fighting for staying in the league, it would been expect for side to show much more resistance but without doubt red card from Baiano on 1st minute has ended all plans which they had.

Fenerbahce has got very easy win at crucial time and got also confidence boost for last 4 weeks in the league without doubt. 

Trabzonspor would play to get closer to title in game against Adana Demirspor.

Trabzonspor would be aiming eventually to end this no-winning streak against tough opponent Adana Demirspor and make crucial step for almost securing its title officially but it would difficult game.

With Adana Demirspor being focussed into ending season at top 4 spot and hence getting Conference League spot, it would be much more motivated and concentrated to game compare to its opponents who is title is alsost being secure despite of losing point in recent weeks. Meanwhile, from Trabzonspor view it does have advantage of winning Turkish Cup against Kayserispor as it had finished with win which could return to extra confidence for this game and motivation. In here, it is important for Trabzonspor to provide full attention to game and get rid of unnecessarily pressure feeling whcih possibly Avci is feeling too.

Trabzonspor would play game which would bring them almost title and it needs to perform according to that.  

Galatasaray CEO election will take place next week

Turkish court has cancelled decision to cancel Galatasaray general meeting on March and also decision not to accept CEO period of Burak Elmas which means election would be taking place likely on 30th April.

With risk of CEO election to be cancelled, without doubt could have raised some issues at the club which would have some difficult moments until end of the season, so this decision has reduced that it happening when especially taking account that club is currently being at difficult conditions. With such decision whole club and CEO election candidates Esref Hamamcioglu and Metin Ozturk could be focussed to be preparing for election which would be taking next week unless some other surprising events will not happen.

Galatasaray through interesting period in recent weeks and would hoping that after CEO election there would be some calm down at the club which would be good to everyone involved with them.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 34th week:
Rizespor 0:6 Fenerbahce

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 34th week:
16:00 Fatih Karagumruk - Giresunspor
16:00 Gaziantep-Goztepe
20:30 Adana Demirspor - Trabzonspor

In other news:
- Antalyaspor will play friendly charity game against Shakhtar Donetsk on 25th April at 20:30. Game is aimed to raise awareness of ongoing Russian invasion to Ukraine with all profits going to Ukrainian children affected from conflict.
- Galatasaray has recieved 1-game partly blockage of stands and 20,000 euro fine for behaviour of fans during Europa League last 16 game against Barcelona. Game blockage would be go into effect on 1st game at European competitions within 2 years.
- FatihKaragumruk has used transfer option for Emre Mor and has signed player for 2-years.
- Court has accepted Galatasaray complained to not accept its general meeting illegal. CEO election will be taking place on 23rd April, if majority not gathered on 30th April.
- Fenerbahce player MiguelCrespo has become injured during Super League 34th week game against Rizespor.
- Alanyaspor has signed sponsorship and partnership deal with Alanya Tourism Entrepreneur Union(ALTID)
- Necaxa are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Bayern Munich player Marcel Sabitzer.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Dogukan Sinik and Alanyaspor player Oguz Aydin.
- Udinese has offered 7 million euro to Konyaspor player Amir Hadziamehotovic.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Millwall player Jed Wallace.
- TottenhamHotspur are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz.
- QatarNationalTeam are interested to appoint Fatih Terim as club's head coach.
- Antalyaspor and Giresunspor are interested to transfer Bursaspor player Nicolas Zalazar

22 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 21/04/2022



Sivasspor got upper hand thanks to Kesgin goal in last minute.

Sivasspor has got an important win against Alanyaspor during Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game with 2:1 scoreline thanks to the goal from Kesgin on last minute especially when team played with 10 men for whole 2nd half.

It could be noted that Sivasspor didnt necesarilly start game well and didnt get too much defensive game as it conceded from free-kick which did come from simple mistakes from goalkeeper. But the team has managed to respond correctly straight after and slowly got control of the game which it raised until end of the game and has created high number of chances as it did find equaliser with Yatabare. Stating that Yatabare after got unnecessarily 2nd yellow card as he continued complaining about position. As would been expected, Sivasspor has focussed into counter-attacks during 2nd half and it did pretty well and got win thanks to the effective organising game.

Sivasspor did get upper hand in this tie but with away goal rule not being present from this season, there is still task needs to be done in 2nd leg.

Alanyaspor showed passive game against Sivasspor on 2nd half.

Despite of starting game on positive note and scoring goal with Emre Akbaba on 6th minute, it could be noted that Alanyaspor did show dissapointing performance against Alanyaspor.

Alanyaspor did provide poor performance after scoring goal and continued to do so after getting 11 players during 2nd half and has lacked creative attacking game and couldnt overpass organised Sivasspor defensive game. Therefore, Alanyaspor did show an attacking game during 2nd half but still didnt provide much performance which would been expected from side which has extra men on the field and been punished from Kesgin on last minute. Positive side for Alanyaspor is that it did lose game on minumum scoreline and if it shows much more effective game on 2nd leg it can turn around this tie.

Alanyaspor been pretty passive during game against Sivassspor and needs to improve its game for 2nd leg for sure.

Fenerbahce are favourites against tough Rizespor.

Fenerbahce would be resuming its fight for 2nd spot as it would be meeting with Konyaspor as we entering to last 5 weeks of the season.

Fenerbahce with Ismail Kartal is being side with great form right now and without doubt it would be hoping to continue to do so while Rizespor is currently focussed to stay on the league and did rise level of performance in recent weeks. Therefore, Rizespor is being side which could provide some pressure to Fenerbahce when looking to its recent performance and hence Fenerbahce would need to be careful. Still, it is expected for Fenerbahce to be one with control of the game and show effective attacking game for 90 minutes.

It would not be easy game for Fenerbahce but its recent performance does put them one step ahead in this tie.

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 34th week:
20:30 Rizespor - Alanyaspor

In other news:
- PFDK decisions:
- Gaziantep player Dogan Erdogan has recieved 1-game ban for serious foul.
- Trabzonspor has received 89,000 TL fine for events on field, not leaving stairs empty and not following guidelines.
- Adana Demirspor player MarioBalotelli got 2-game ban for serious foul.
- Fenerbahce has recieved 32,000 TL fine for events on field.
- Giresunsupor has received 32,000 TL fine for not following guidelines.
- Altay has moved its CEO election to 28th April due of majority not gathered in meeting.
- TurkishVolleyballFederation CEO Mehmet Akif Ustundag considers to become TFF CEO candidate.
- OlympiqueLyon considers to offer 10 million euro for Galatasaray player Kerem Akturkoglu.
- LosAngelesFC are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Mesut Ozil.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Borussia Dortmund player Axel Wiltsel and Lozan player Zeki Amdouni.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Besiktas player Cyle Larin.
- Trabzonspor has made transfer deal with Goztepe player Halil Akbunar for 3.2 million euro.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Real Betis player Hector Bellerin.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Palmeiras player Gustavo Scarpa.
- Besiktas considers to offer 2 million euro to Konyaspor player Abdulkerim Bardakci and 10 million TL to Yeni Malatyaspor player Mustafa Eskihellac.
- OkanBuruk has stated that he would like to work with Galatasaray
- Fenerbahce considers to extend contract with Serdar Aziz.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Adana Demirspor player Matias Vargas.
- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Yeni Malatyaspor player Benjamin Tetteh.


21 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 20/04/2022



Sivasspor beat Alanyaspor with playing most of 2nd half with 10 men.

Sivasspor has managed to get win against Alanyaspor at Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game with last minute goal from Kesgin despite of the fact that it has played entire amount of 2nd half with 10 men.

It needs to be mentioned that Sivasspor did start game in pretty passive mode without getting any upper hand and control of the game and hence has conceded a goal on 6th minute from free kick of Emre Akbaba. After that moment, it slowly got control of the game and has scored goal with Yatabare from corner kick. After getting red card towards end of the 1st half, game as would been expected did go into hand of Alanyaspor who has controlled more and went more attacking game, but Sivasspor has stayed focus for 2nd half with providing strong defensive game and hence preventing Alanyaspor to get into difficult opportunities. Sivasspor did eventually find an important goal on 90+2' minute with Kesgin goal and got win from away fixture.

Alanyaspor on other hand, did start in good tempo with providing strong attacking game but as game continued did lose upper hand and had trouble to show creative attacking and tempo game towards opponent goals without finding how to overpass Sivasspor defence. As been noted several times at our blog, without showing creative and fast paced game against closed defence, it would be hard to find goal which side been seeked for and eventually would concede with effective counter-attack from Kesgin. Still, Sivasspor needs to improve its performance for 2nd leg as it still turn around this tie due of no away-goal rule being present anymore.

Sivasspor did get crucial win with playing one-less man for 2nd half due of strong and organised game for almost whole game.

Trabzonspor got confidence back thanks to Cornelius goal.

Trabzonspor got an important advantage even through minumum one during Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game against Kayserispor thanks to the goal from Andreas Cornelius.

Trabzonspor had shown some feeling pressure or relaxation during recent weeks of the Super League which affected negatively to they Turkish Cup game as it didnt provide fast tempo which has been expected from them. It is true that Kayserispor without doubt did also show strong resistance and game against them as they do against big clubs, but Trabzonspor is pretty far from dominance of the games which it had some months ago. Still, this win would be important one both to get to Turkish Cup final game and also getting morale for upcoming league games as it is being 4 point behind of title even if Fenerbahce and Konyaspor win all of the games. Hence, Cornelius goal might be important boost for rest of the season unless side shows once again some relaxing performance.

Trabzonspor did get important win in such view and is getting closer for ending season double this season. 

Kayserispor looked organised at defence but not much at attack.

Kayserispor on they part did provide strong performance against Trabzonspor and would be looking for 2nd leg game as it got loss only for minumum scoreline with 1 goal could be enough for extra-time.

Kayserispor didnt have specifically great season but did provide total different performance against top clubs with getting good results both in Turkish Cup and Super League and hence did provide some important difficulty to Trabzonspor. It did manage to prevent them to get full control of the game but didnt been especially strong at defence possibly side focussing into mainly ending game with 0:0 scoreline. Kayserispor did look great against Trabzonspor on this game but it doesnt need to raise its level of performance if it wants to get better result during 2nd leg.

Kayserispor still showed good performance in defence but needs to be more agressive at front during 2nd leg of this tie.

Results:
Turkish Cup, semi-final, 1st leg
Alanyaspor 1:2 Sivasspor
In other news:
- Trabzonspor player Anthony Nwakaeme has become injured.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Sofiane Feghouli.
- MLS clubs are interested to transfer Lille player Burak Yilmaz.
- Verona are interested to transfer Besiktas player Adem Ljajic.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Toulouse player Ryhs Healey.
- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Hearts of Oak player Samuel Inkoom.
- Bologna considers to offer 5 million euro for Fenerbahce player Miha Zajc.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Shakhtar Donetsk player Lassina Traore.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Kasimpasa player Ertugrul Taskiran.
- Besiktas has offered 6 million euro + 50% share for next transfer to Real Sociedad player Alexander Sorloth.
- RealMadrid considers to offer 45 million euro for Leicester City player Caglar Soyuncu.
- Porto are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Miguel Crespo.
- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Daniel Farke as club's head coach.
- AlSadd has offered 3 million euro to Besiktas player Alex Teixeira with 5 million euro salary.
- Fenerbahce has started transfer negotiations with Kasimpasa player Eren Elmali.  His club requested 6 million euro.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Blackburn Rovers player Ben Breton Diaz.
- Atalanta has offered 8 million euro to Galatasaray player Mustafa Muhammed.

20 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 19/04/2022



Cornelius got an advantage goal at Turkish Cup.

Trabzonspor has won Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game against Kayserispor thanks to the last minutes goal from Andreas Cornelius at the game which side did struggle to find openning goal due of organised defence from opponents.

It needs to be noted that both Trabzonspor and Kayserispor did come out to the game to get advantage scoreline in such fixture, but Trabzonspor did have problem with finding opportunities which been due of ongoing drop of performance in the Super League and also for strong defensive game from Kayserispor. Therefore, it did look like Trabzonspor needed to find ways how to overpass strong defensive opponent which it didnt do much during 1st half but raised tempo on 2nd half with providing some alternative goals but still failed to find that goal. However, Andreas Cornelius did find eventually goal which side been looking for with using his attacking style, reminding why is being best goalscorer in the team. This win would also make one step closer to ending this season with double and also get rid of pressure which it felt for past 4 weeks.

Kayserispor on their part did provide strong and confident performance against Trabzonspor especially in defence once again showing that side is being especially organised and motivated against big clubs. Despite of losing this game with 1:0 scoreline, it still being minumum result and it still has opportunity it get final ticket.

Andreas Cornelius goal on 88th minute has provided needed push not only in this game but also raised confidence and reduced pressure of whole side in general and this would go into advantage in league game this weekend.

Galatasaray had trouble to concentrate for Yeni Malatyaspor game.

Despite of win against Yeni Malatyaspor thanks to two goals which been scored back-to-back by Ryan Donk and Halil Dervisoglu within 2 minutes, it needs to be mentioned that Galatasaray had trouble against arleady relegated opponent.

It is true that Galatasaray with being out of aims in rest of this season and also having low motivation and confidence but it did play against side which been relegated and hence it was expected from them to get win. But it did provide pretty slow and passive game especially in 1st half and did find 1st goal into big difficulty. It does look like technical staff and players are being disoriented and having lack of focus which for sure would affect negatively for first of the season even through side is focussed to end season at highest note it can.

Hence, Galatasaray despite of win didnt provide game which been expected from them and would have difficult ending of the season.

Sivasspor and Alanyaspor could provide strong competitive game.

Second Turkish Cup semi-final game would be played between Alanyaspor and Sivasspor as those are being two sides which are providing top performances and even through are not seen as title contenders in league, have ended in recent years close to the top.

Therefore, those both sides are in quality to get into final stage of the Turkish Cup and even go all the way and hence it would be expected to be seen tactical game between both sides but also quality level of game if both sides would give its strong performance. Its hard to state which side would be favourite but Sivasspor is being slighly better side both with experience and squad and having coach which is more familiar with Turkish football Riza Calimbay. But there is not much absences between sides once again and it is expected to be highly competitive game.

Both sides are close to each other when coming to quality and that would affect into quality of the game for sure.

Results:
Turkish Cup, semi-final, 1st leg:
Trabzonspor 1:0 Kayserispor

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, semi-final, 1st leg:
Alanyaspor - Sivasspor

In other news:
- PFDK referalls:
- Fenerbahce has been referred due of events on field.
- Gaziantep player Dogan Erdogan and Adana Demirspor player Mario Balotelli has been referred for breaking rules.
- Giresunspor has been referred for not following guidelines.
- Fenerbahce player Atilla Szalai has become injured.
- Fenerbahce has won friendly charity game against Shakhtar Donetsk with 1:0 scoreline.
- Galatasaray CEO election on 30th April has been cancelled due of court decision due of precaution decision from court regarding of legitimacy of general meeting on 27th March
- - Galatasaray has send complain to court regarding of decision from court to cancel CEO election on 30th April. 
- Torino are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Atilla Szalai.
- Besiktas are interested transfer New England player Adam Buksa 
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Shakhtar Donetsk player Felipe Neves.
- Milan are interested to loan Besiktas-loaned player Miralem Pjanic.


19 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 18/04/2022



Galatasaray has won relegated Yeni Malatyaspor within 2 minutes.

Galatasaray has got win against arleady relegated Yeni Malatyaspor with 2:0 scoreline thanks to the goals which been scored between 51st and 53rd minutes thanks to Ryan Donk and Halil Dervisoglu.

With this game more or less being formality game, it was expected to be played at not very high tempo with Galatasaray having an upper hand due of stronger squad in the hand and also better morale. To more or less this is how game has been developed. Despite of that, and with playing against side which been highly demotivated from previous week Galatasaray did have an issue to be scoring goal and it needs to be mentioned that openining goal did goal very easily as it was scored by Ryan Donk to empty goal after 3rd try as other shots has been done. Halil Dervisoglu goal has been a better goal with very good goal from great cross from Elabdelloui. Galatasaray hence at least got some confidence for last 5 weeks.

Yeni Malatyaspor did come into field after being relegated mathematically on previous week and did try to play some good game but due of being relegated still couldnt show effective game.

Galatasaray now aims to end season at high note but it needs to be staying motivated which could be tough as could be seen during 1st half of this game.

Besiktas didnt pass organised defence of Giresunspor.

Besiktas has got goalless draw against Giresunspor as latter got very important draw which made their aim to stay on the league even more closer while Besiktas continues having issue with breaking opponents which show closed defence.

Even through when looking at the game overall it could be noted that Besiktas has been side which controlled ball and focussed into attacking game, Giresunspor has been one who has shown an attacking game and got very good opportunities and if they scored game would been going into different direction. There were questions about how Valirien Ismael 3-4-3 tactical game would be played against closed defensive opponent, and this game did show that it did have some issues and Ismael couldnt pass strong defensive game of the opponent. Valerien Ismael would now need to find solutions of the issue which been going on during this season as it needs to find them if it wants to finish league at top 4.

Besiktas did show positive attacking football but as we saw once again during this season this is not enough to get result.

Trabzonspor has chance to regain focus when coming to game which it needs to win.

Trabzonspor would be aiming to get win against Kayserispor during Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game, with aiming to get one step closer for double of this season and also regain confidence to the league.

Trabzonspor either due of relaxation or unneccesarily pressure didnt win for Super League for 4 weeks and still has mathematical chances to become champions in upcoming weekend but such downturn of the performance might raise some tension at the team. Coming out to the game which it needs to win, might provide different motivation of the game and provide much more pressure game towards Kayserispor. While Kayserispor been aware of recent relaxation of the side which might affect to this game, could provide some attacking and brave football as using loss of concentration which been present with Trabzonspor in recent weeks.

Trabzonspor are being favourites but Kayserispor could get suprise results in the end of the day.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 33rd week:
Galatasaray 2:0 Yeni Malatyaspor
Schedule:
Turkish Cup, semi-final, 1st leg:
20:30 Trabzonspor - Kayserispor

In other news:
-Trabzonspor has been referred to PFDK for not leaving stairs empty and not following guidelines.
- TFF has announced Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game referees:
19/04, 20:30: Trabzonspor-Kayserispor: Atilla Karaoglan
20/04, 20:30: Alanyaspor- Sivasspor: Ali Sansalan
-SabriCelik has been appointed as Central Referee Committee CEO. His administrative team includes:
-- Fenerbahce budget, report director and investment connection administrator Ozge Arkac Erol has resigned from his post.
Trabzonspor-loaned player Stefano Denswil would like to stay at the club next season.
- Trabzonspor player Huseyin Turkmen will not be able to play for 2 weeks.
- LeicesterCity are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz.
- Galatasaray considers to sell its players Marcao and Kerem Akturkoglu during summer transfer window.

18 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 17/04/2022



Besiktas didnt get through Giresunspor which showed strong tactical game.

Super League game between Giresunspor and Besiktas has been ended with goalless draw, with such result without doubt went into hand of Giresunspor as it got another point to make sure it would be staying in league while for Besiktas its been loss of 2 points as it further from top 4 aim.

Its need to be mentioned that when looking in the game at overall, Besiktas has been shown much more attacking game and being focussed at 3-4-3 formation and fast tempo focussed attacking game, but it meet with Giresunspor which has provided strong and defensive game and in fact did get some opportunities with good counter-attack. Even through Besiktas did control game with being one who was controlling tempo and playing at Giresunspor half, it didnt manage to create high opportunities. As been noted, tactics which been played Valerien Ismael is being effective if opposition is also providing an open game but when playing against closed defence, which Giresunspor has shown rightly, it did have issues with getting confident positions. Besiktas is currently being 3 points behind of top 4 and 10 points from 2nd spot so side would need to aim to get all wins if it wants to see European spot.

Giresunspor which is being 10 point ahead of relegation zone has provided smart tactical game with focussing into getting draw and that system did work as with 5 points left in the season it does have 4 game advantage

Besiktas did lose 2 points against highly organised Giresunspor and now Valerien Ismael needs to find ways how to show effective games against closed defence game.

Fenerbahce continues confident performance with win against Goztepe.

Fenerbahce continues with getting positive results in the fight for 2nd spot with Konyaspor as it managed to win struggling Goztepe with 2:0 scoreline even through it did show some relaxation during game.

Fenerbahce did find an early goal against Goztepe thanks to the goal from Serdar Aziz on 4th minute which led for side to show some relaxation with its performance even through to some extend its been controllable. With Trabzonspor losing points back-to-back and Fenerbahce winning games, could provide some hope for title even for some supporters but again chances are pretty low and it is clear that club is aware that best it could be hoping for would been 2nd spot. Even through there were times when Fenerbahce looked to be too relaxed during game, there is visible confidence seen from players. It also been especially important for Arda Guler to score penalty as player continues to develop and get self-confidence.

Without doubt Fenerbahce is now focussing to make 5 out of 5 in rest of the season and it has capacity to get this outcome.

Galatasaray and Yeni Malatyaspor will play formality game.

It could be stated that most unimportant game or in other words formality fixture of this week would be between Galatasaray and Yeni Malatyaspor as Galatasaray doesnt have much aims while Yeni Malatyaspor arleady been relegated mathematically.

Galatasaray does have advantage during game due of fact that it has better squad and is providing better performance compare to oppoennt and also seeks to end season at high note as to some extend get forgiveness from its supporters. Also, and even through all 2 CEO candidates state that they would not work with Domenec Torrent, he would be aiming to show strong confident performance with result which might lead for upcoming administration to change its mind. Yeni Malatyaspor meanwhile will aim to have some positieve end with formality games and getting good result against Galatasaray would be impressive for them.

This would be formality game and there is high chances it would be played according to that atmosphere.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

Konyaspor 4:1 Gaziantep

Kasimpasa 4:0 Adana Demirspor

Giresunspor 0:0 Besiktas

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

20:30 Galatasaray - Yeni Malatyaspor

In other news:

- Central Referee Committee CEO Ferhat Gundogdu has resigned from his post.

- SabriCelik is expected to fill spot of Central Referee Committee CEO position after Ferhat Gundogdu resignation.

- Besiktas has offered 6 million euro + 50% share for next transfer for RB Leipzig player Alexander Sorloth.
- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Lens head coach Franck Haise for head coach role. 

17 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 16/04/2022



 Fenerbahce is getting closer for 2nd spot with win against Goztepe.

Fenerbahce has won once again against struggling and almost relegated Goztepe at home ground with 2:0 scoreline at the game where both sides did provide respectful fighting game but team which seeks for 2nd spot did get win.

It needs to be stated that Fenerbahce has started game with confident attacking game with looking into opportunities with looking into an early goal which without doubt is being rightful tactic against side which needs to win game urgently to have any possibilities to stay in the league. To some extend, after scoring goal Fenerbahce did have some relaxation even through its been cautious one, while Goztepe has gave their best to find an equaliser and this has continued for 2nd half. Even if Fenerbahce did reduce its tempo game it still looked like side which knew what it was doing and has shown confident game with side looking that it was aware that it would get result. It is been specifically present to see for Arda Guler to score his first goal on his home ground from well-taken penalty kick. With Trabzonspor losing points in recent weeks, some Fenerbahce supporters might even hope for title but it still being for them to get 2nd spot and if their continue like this they would get it.

Goztepe which could be mathematically be relegated if Giresunspor manages to get win against Besiktas, did provide confident strong performance which once again did let for side to question why it didnt show such performance for whole season.

Fenerbahce did get crucial win with providing confident game but did show some relaxation but still did deserved win against Goztepe.

Trabzonspor are being at unnecesarily pressure right now.

Trabzonspor continues losing  points at the league as it didnt win for last 4 games, this time drawing to Fatih Karagumruk with 1:1 scoreline as side seems to be showing sign of pressure despite of 13 point difference at the top of the league with 5 games left in the season. 

It needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor especially has showed passive game during 1st half without getting into too much opportunities and not being able to get through strong defensive game of opponent which has started at midfielding section. In addition, it has conceded beautiful free kick which did show that Trabzonspor needed to change its level of performance and attitude for 2nd half which it did . Therefore, Trabzonspor has started providing much more strong pressure towards Fatih Karagumruk goal which led for opponents to provide organised strong defence but it needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor didnt use its opportunities very well. It was observed that Trabzonspor got into unnecessarily pressure which it needs to go through if it wants to win title at short period of time.

Trabzonspor needs to get 4 points but it needs to improve its performance if it wants to win this title at early notice. 

Besiktas will aim to continue its in-form performance but it is being tough game for them.

Besiktas would be aiming to continue strong performance which it shows with Valerien Ismael against Giresunspor while they opponent would be aiming to get at least point to secure their stay in the top division for next season.

Even through both sides are being at the different halves of the table, it would be very tough game for Besiktas as side would be coming with motivation to secure their spot and also self-confidence as it got confident win against their opponents during 1st half which also played important role for Sergen Yalcin leaving his position in the team. However, Besiktas is being currently in good form as it aims to end season at the 4th spot and get at least Conference League spot in the table. It would be expected for Besiktas to provide strong and attacking game with looking high opportunities.

This could be pretty competitive but recent form does put Besiktas into favourite but it would be tough one.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

Kayserispor 1:1 Rizespor

Hatayspor 1:1 Sivasspor

Alanyaspor 1:3 Antalyaspor

Altay 1:1 Basaksehirspor

Fenerbahce 2:0 Goztepe

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

13:30 Konyaspor - Gaziantep

16:00 Kasimpasa - Adana Demirspor

20:30 Giresunspor-Besiktas

In other news:

Fenerbahce player Dimitris Pelkas has become injured.

- Trabzonspor player Huseyin Turkmen has become injured.

- Goztepe has set transfer fee of its player Halil Akbunar as 3 million euro. - Besiktas has set transfer budget for defender transfer as 2 million euro. - Rennes are interested to transfer Besiktas player Serdar Saatci. - Galatasaray are interested to appoint Sergen Yalcin as club's head coach.


16 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 15/04/2022



Trabzonspor didnt win league game for 4 weeks and keep postponing announcing title.

Trabzonspor didnt manage to win for last 5 games and has postponed possibly winning title mathematically for another week as it got 1:1 draw against Fatih Karagumruk as one of the main reason for this result has been slow performance and showed passive game.

With being so close at the title for Trabzonspor and having an opportunity to win title at this weekend, side is showing distraction and loss of concentration from its players and continue to be feeling at the pressure despite of very good advantage. Trabzonspor especially looked to be very passive during 1st half and didnt provide much pressure into the side confidence, but did show some improvement on 2nd half with possibility of motivational talks with Abdullah Avci providing some pressure. Even if Fatih Karagumruk did provide strong defence on 2nd half, Trabzonspor did get some good opportunities but didnt provide strong and clear shots in goal. It needs to be mentioned that with Trabzonspor not winning title for 39 years, it would been expected that Trabzonspor would not provide this kind of relaxation on the field but somehow we see this factor.

Fatih Karagumruk it needs to be mentioned didnt provide much pressure in the front but did provide organised game at defensive part without providing much opportunities to Trabzonspor and it did got well-deserved draw.

It needs to be mentioned that Abdullah Avci did lose previously with Basaksehirspor with having 8-point difference but with losing games back-to-back did lose title to Galatasaray, so it does look like Avci has issues with ending seasons.  

Fenerbahce cant take Goztepe too lightly if it aims for 2nd spot.

Fenerbahce would be aiming to continue its winning streak against Goztepe and hence keep their 2nd spot at the league and prevent Trabzonspor to celebrate its title in this week while Goztepe would aim to keep its aim to stay on the league alive.

Even through both sides are being in the two different ends at the standings and Fenerbahce being at the great form, it needs to be remembered that playing against side which are fighting for staying at the league has always been tough and hence Fenerbahce cant afford to stay on the league. Task for Goztepe for staying in the league is being tough one with 11 points behind safety zone from Giresunspor but with Goztepe having strong supporters,it would be focussing to provide its last fights to let supporters at least see that their willing to stay. Fenerbahce still has important advantage of playing at home as supporters start giving strong support to they side with side getting good results.

Fenerbahce will be coming as favourites, but side cant afford to take lightly Goztepe during their game without doubt.

Fenerbahce has used transfer option of Diego Rossi.

Fenerbahce has used its transfer option of its loaned and Los Angeles FC player Diego Rossi with paying club 5,500,000 euro as player did show good and satisfactorily performance at the club.

With Diego Rossi being signed for 3-years, it could be noted that Diego Rossi didnt necessarily provide very strong performance during whole season but still he did have some good movements providing lots of assists and creating good opportunities hence fulfilling role of strong and confident winger. Diego Rossi being even more used to the team and Super League during this season, would be expected to show even more strong confident performance unless he has some drop of performance as we sometimes see with foreign players after extension been used by clubs. 

Diego Rossi has strong potential to improve as player in the side and hence this has been rightul decision from Fenerbahce on first glance.


Results:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

Trabzonspor 1:1 Fatih Karagumruk

Kayserispor 1:1 Rizespor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

13:30 Hatayspor - Sivasspor

16:00 Alanyaspor - Antalyaspor

16:00 Altay-Basaksehirspor

20:30 Fenerbahce - Goztepe

In other news:

- Galatasaray has made principal deal with Lille player Burak Yilmaz.

- Kasimpasa are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Dimitrios Pelkas.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Adeluke Adekunle and Imo Obot.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Norwich City player Ozan Kabak.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Rotherham United player Daniel Tan Barlaser.

- Giresunspor player Emre Tasdemir has been left out of squad.

- Galatasaray CEO candidate Metin Ozturk had one-on-one transfer negotiations with Inter Milan player Alexis Sanchez agent.

 Fenerbahce cant take Goztepe too lightly if it aims for 2nd spot.

Fenerbahce would be aiming to continue its winning streak against Goztepe and hence keep their 2nd spot at the league and prevent Trabzonspor to celebrate its title in this week while Goztepe would aim to keep its aim to stay on the league alive.

Even through both sides are being in the two different ends at the standings and Fenerbahce being at the great form, it needs to be remembered that playing against side which are fighting for staying at the league has always been tough and hence Fenerbahce cant afford to stay on the league. Task for Goztepe for staying in the league is being tough one with 11 points behind safety zone from Giresunspor but with Goztepe having strong supporters,it would be focussing to provide its last fights to let supporters at least see that their willing to stay. Fenerbahce still has important advantage of playing at home as supporters start giving strong support to they side with side getting good results.

Fenerbahce will be coming as favourites, but side cant afford to take lightly Goztepe during their game without doubt.

Fenerbahce has used transfer option of Diego Rossi.

Fenerbahce has used its transfer option of its loaned and Los Angeles FC player Diego Rossi with paying club 5,500,000 euro as player did show good and satisfactorily performance at the club.

With Diego Rossi being signed for 3-years, it could be noted that Diego Rossi didnt necessarily provide very strong performance during whole season but still he did have some good movements providing lots of assists and creating good opportunities hence fulfilling role of strong and confident winger. Diego Rossi being even more used to the team and Super League during this season, would be expected to show even more strong confident performance unless he has some drop of performance as we sometimes see with foreign players after extension been used by clubs. 

Diego Rossi has strong potential to improve as player in the side and hence this has been rightul decision from Fenerbahce on first glance.

15 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 14/04/2022



Trabzonspor has chance to win title this weekend.

Trabzonspor would be coming out to Super League against Fatih Karagumruk with an aim to win its 1st game after 5 games as it has a chance to get title officially if results would go as they plan.

With having high amount of point difference and 13 point advantage when entering to this week, Trabzonspor did show lots of relaxation at the recent games and with possible opportunity for getting title in this weekend it would likely be focussed more and get this game much more seriously. Stating that, Fatih Karagumruk is being tough opponent and being among sides which tend to show positive strong performance and if Trabzonspor does show similar game its been showing at recent weeks, it could have some issues to get win as it could create similar problems which did Gaziantep gave to them. There is expectation that possibility of title this weekend could provide some positive aspect but in same time could lead to relaxation when coming to the field.

Trabzonspor would become champions if it wins and Fenerbahce and Konyaspor will lose points in the end of the week.

Konyaspor extended contract with its players Soner Dikmen and Baris Yardimci.

Konyaspor has extended contract with its players Soner Dikmen and Baris Yardimci until 2023-24 as Super League clubs tend to act quickly prior to summer transfer window keeping its Turkish players as they importance would rise due of foreign players limit.

Both Dikmen and Yardimci did have an important role with helping side to be aiming for Champions League runners-up spot during this season with showing strong and positive football, helping side to show positive effective game as did whole side and being among players who showed some positive performance. Hence, it should be seen natural for Konyaspor to be extending contract for 2 more seasons while players which are being in the club likely to be signing new contract without much negotiations. With Konyaspor would be at European seasons and likely have high aims in the upcoming season, it been right decision to extend with those 2 players.

Konyaspor needs to strength they squad for next season but most important step is to keep its good players and it did just that.

Mesut Ozil agent would meet with Fenerbahce administrators.

Fenerbahce player Mesut Ozil would be having one-on-one transfer negotiations with club to discuss future of the player in upcoming days.

Fenerbahce due of undiscipline actions has left out of squad Mesut Ozil just before national team break last month, and it is being unclear what would be future with player in the club. It is known that Ozil would like to stay in the club until end of the contract, but taking account that prior to incident which led for him to be out of squad, Ismail Kartal didnt play Ozil a lot as player also didnt show performance which been expected from him. Hence, its natural for Mesut Ozil agent Erkut Sogut to get some questions about his future in the club.

As always our blog would follow how talks between those parties would go on and how would Mesut Ozil future in the club develop. 

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

20:30 Trabzonspor - Fatih Karagumruk

20:30 Kayserispor - Rizespor

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:

- Giresunspor trainer Ilker Avcibay has recieved 2-game ban and 13,000 TL fine for action towards opponent supporters.

- Giresunspor administrator Onder Dik got 21-derprivaiton of rights for action towards opponent supporters.

- Goztepe, Fenerbahce, Besiktas got blockage of section of stands for behaviour of fans.

- Fenerbahce, Besiktas, Konyaspor, Adana Demirspor got 32,000 TL fine for events on field.

- Hatayspor player Ruben Rodrigues got 2- game ban for serious foul.

- Konyaspor player Amar Rahmanovic got 4-game ban and 17,500 TL fine for action.

- Konyaspor recieved 100,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship statements.

- Konyaspor CEO Fatih Ozgocen got 24,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship statements.

- Galatasaray has lost friendly charity game against Dynamo Kyiv with 3:1 scoreline. 

- Sivasspor head coach Riza Calimbay: Pedro Henrique had an injury and he continued his recovery at Brasil. He really wanted to live to Brasilian side and we could prevent him.

- Galatasaray administrator Esref Hamamcioglu has stated that club doesnt have long term plans with head coach Domenec Torrent.

- Galatasaray CEO candidate Metin Ozturk: We are getting poor result but there is ongoing contract with current coach. I would like to work with Turkish coach if it would be changed.
-  Besiktas are interested to transfer Lazio player Patric Gabarron.
- Basaksehirspor are interested to transfer Mbiaye Diagne.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Goztepe player Irfan Can Egribat.
- Besiktas considers to offer 2 million euro for Konyaspor player Abdulkadir Bardakci.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Rennes player Birger Meling.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Asante Kotoko player Franck Etouga.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Malmo player Sebastian Nanasi.

14 April 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 13/04/2022



Cincinnati has signed Goztepe player Obinha.

Cincinnati has signed Goztepe player Obinna with 6 weeks left until end of the season as some players started leaving number of the club in this period of the year.

Goztepe is side which are being very close to be relegated and if results would not be coming as they would be planned for in upcoming weeks, it could be relegated mathematically in duration of 2 weeks. With side being on such condition right now, it would be natural to be expecting that some players would be starting leaving side and first name to leave club has been Obinna who would be continuing his career at MLS side Cincinnati where transfer window has been openned and he would be hoping that he would be playing in much stable and potential side which would assist his career.

Goztepe are having interesting season which explains they position in the league and hence it would be likely continue to lose some players due this condition. 

Basaksehirspor signs its academy player Efe Arda Karaca for 3-years.

Basaksehirspor continues with signing its academy players as this time it has signed Efe Arda Karaca for 3-years and continues to give big attention to young players.

Even there were period when Basaksehirspor did sign some experienced players, it needs to be mentioned that for most of the time it is being side which is focussed with potential younger players so it shouldnt be surprising that it has signed for 3-years its academy player Emre Arda Karaca who does have some high potential as player in upcoming seasons which club sees without doubt. With being developed he does have potential to become future star both at the club and Turkish football.

Basaksehirspor meanwhile is expected to be continuing paying attention to academy and generally younger players.

Galatasaray would play against Dynamo Kyiv for peace.

Galatasaray would become first side to be joining Football for Peace campaign which has been run both by Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk with European awareness charity tour regarding of Russian invasion to Ukraine.

With Ukrainian leagues to be postponed due of known reasons, Ukrainian clubs has started tour across Europe to raise awareness of Russian invasion to Ukraine and also raise donation for Ukrainian children affected by war from ticket sales. Turkish clubs would be joined this campaigned with Galatasaray game against Dynamo Kyiv who is been coached by Mircea Lucescu who has worked for years in Turkey. Meanwhile, there is seems to be misunderstanding with some supporters supporting idea but blaming Galatasaray and Fenerbahce for double standards. In here, it is important to note that Ukrainian sides has organised this games and reason why Syrian or other war-affected tours doesnt exist as it wasnt organised.

Those are cause games and its not important who would win as aim to promote peace and to some extend it would be expected for Galatasaray and later Fenerbahce to Shakhtar Donetsk to let their opponents to win as sign of goodwill.

In other news:

- ShakhtarDonetsk would play friendly charity game against Fenerbahce on 19th April at 17:00. Game is aimed to raise awareness of ongoing Russian invasion to Ukraine with profits gained from game going to Ukrainian children affected by war. 

- Galatasaray player Mustafa Mohammed has recovered from injury.

- Altay player Ozgur Ozkaya would not be able to play for 2-3 weeks due of injury.

- MutluKasapoglu would decide if he would become Altay CEO candidate or not in upcoming days.

- Valencia, Real Betis, Celta Vigo, Torino and Stuttgart are interested to transfer Galatasaray-loaned player Halil Dervisoglu.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Fulham player Fabio Calvalho.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Debrecen player Peter Barath.
- BorussiaDortmund are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Arda Guler.
- Stuttgart has requested 4 million euro from Besiktas for Atakan Karazor.
- Liverpool and Arsenal are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Arda Guler.
- Fenerbahce and Galatasaray are interested to transfer Al Rayyan player James Rodriguez