21 May 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 20/05/2022



Antalyaspor and Galatasaray end season with draw.

Both Antalyaspor and Galatasaray has ended 2021-22 season with a draw between each other as Galatasaray didnt lose for last 2 games at least while Antalyaspor ended season with 16th undefeated game.

With game being formality for both sides, it needs to be stated that both side did show pretty positive game with creating chances and aiming to end season with a win as both sides wanted to end season at some high point. Even through Antalyaspor did come out to the game as favourites and did provide some positive performance and organising game, Galatasaray also created high number of positions but did fail to create some opportunities. Therefore, it could be stated that Galatasaray did end season which it would like to forget in not bad form as many players aimed to show some positive game thinking about they future either on club or as possibility to be transferred to other club. It also been important for Domenec Torrent to win game against opponent which is being on form.

Antalyaspor as been noted did finish season without losing game hence extending its undefeated run to 16 games and ending season with high note even through it did provide much more attacking game in previous games.

Galatasaray ended season which it would like to forget and without doubt it would need to go through with some crucial revision and changes during summer period, which seems to be priority for CEO which would be elected on 11th June.

Fenerbahce even through didnt secure 2nd spot, it has all reasons not to have issues in last game of season.

Fenerbahce are going to come out to last last week of the Super League as it would be playing against last spot and unmotivated side of Yeni Malatyaspor to secure its 2nd spot which would mean ticked to Champions League qualifier.

Fenerbahce would be coming out against opponent which didnt win recent game and been hightly unmotivated knowing that it has 3-point advantage against Konyaspor with +9 advantage since H2H is being same. Therefore, it needs to be noted that Fenerbahce would be come out without feeling any pressure and expects to show some positive football as it would be suitable for side which is being showing high level performance in recent weeks and opponent which does concede easily. Hence, Fenerbahce is expected not to have any issues.

Yeni Malatyaspor as been noted is not expected to provide any pressure to Fenerbahce on the game.

Konyaspor would need miracle from Besiktas game and also from Yeni Malatyaspor.

While task of Fenerbahce seems to be pretty simple during last game of the season, Konyaspor does have difficult task of scoring at least 9 goals waiting for Fenerbahce to get very unlucky loss while playing against Besiktas.

Konyaspor without doubt would need to find early goals to have any chance for 2nd spot and be realistici Besiktas is not opponent which Konyapor could achieve this regardless how much Besiktas is being without target as we enter to the last week. Only reason how that could take place if Besiktas would be aiming letting Konyaspor to take 2nd spot, but again this would not be acceptable by everyone. Konyaspor without doubt does believe into miracle to some extend but there are also aware but possibly would try to show some attacking game.

Konyaspor has miracle chance to get 2nd spot but that depends if Besiktas and Yeni Malatyaspor would help, 2 options which are very unlikely to happen.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 38th week:

Antalyaspor 1:1 Galatasaray

Gaziantep 2:0 Rizespor

Schedule: 

Turkish Super League, 38th week:

16:00 Altay-Kasimpasa

16:00 Sivasspor - Kayserispor

19:00 Besiktas - Konyaspor

19:00 Yeni Malatyaspor - Fenerbahce

In other news:

- 1stLeague play-off round ties has become clear. Winner would get 3rd team to be promoted for next season:

Bandirmaspor-Eyupspor

Istanbulspor-Erzurumspor

- Besiktas, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray,Trabzonspor, Alanyaspor, Sivasspor, Antalyaspor,Konyaspor, Kasimpasa, Basaksehirspor got UEFA licence for 2022-23 season- Fenerbahce has extended contract with its player Serdar Aziz for 3-years.

- - Kasimpasa has extended contract with its head coach Sami Ugurlu for 3-years.

- Fenerbahce has extended contract with its player Serdar Aziz for 3-years.

- Besiktas has signed professional contract with its academy player Aytug Batur Komec.

- Everton player Cenk Tosun has stated that he received offers from Turkey, England, Spain, USA and UAE.

- Fenerbahce are close to make transfer deal with Shakhtar Donetsk player Lassina Traore.

- Botafago are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Bafetembi Gomis, Fenerbahce player Alex Teixera, Josef de Souza  and Fenerbahce player Mesut Ozil.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Fernando de Lucas and Yeni Malatyaspor player Mounir Chouair.

- Fenerbahce has started transfer negotiations with Al Ahly player Mohamed Magdy Afsha

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Tolga Cigerci.

- Torino has offered 4 million euro+bonuses to Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz.


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