22 May 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 21/05/2022



Fenerbahce gets Champions League spot with confident win.

Fenerbahce ends Super League 2021-22 season with confident win against Yeni Malatyapor and got right to compete at next season Champions League 2nd qualifying round as it is likely to be last game of Ismail Kartal as head coach.

Prior to coming out to the game, even through Fenerbahce didnt quarentee 2nd spot it was visible in many circumstances that Fenerbahce would end season at 2nd spot and it did went out to some extend without doubt. With Yeni Malatyaspor being relegated weeks ago and also getting red card earlier in the game made things for them easier.It needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did struggle a bit during 1st half with Yeni Malatyaspor tried its best to defence, but 2nd half did get dominance and with opponent getting more and more demotivated let them to get such confident result.

Yeni Malatyaspor did try to provide some pressure to Fenerbhace during 1st half to some extend but did lack to concentrate towards game entirelly mentally and hence did end season in a manner which been went for them during whole season.

Fenerbahce ends season with great run without losing for 14th week and despite of that it does look like Ismail Kartal would not stay as coach in upcoming weeks as side got Champions League spot.

Besiktas ends season with draw.

Konyaspor has ended Super League at 3rd spot as it has drawn with Besiktas with 1:1 scoreline as Besiktas did come out to the formality game for them.

As been noted on previous day blog entry, Konyaspor did come out into difficult possibility for winning title and without doubt one of the aspects of this been for Besiktas wouldnt certainly give up to the game. It needs to be mentioned that Besiktas even through did come out for win in its last game, it couldnt focus much into game due of mentality since it was playing at home ground. Still, last minute goal from Karaman does show that team didnt want to lose at home ground in last game of the season. Meanwhile, this game once again showed that Besiktas does need to transfer forward player.

Despite of being aware that task would been difficult for 2nd spot for Konyaspor, side did show strong and confident game tried to create chance and did find goal on 42nd minute and got leadership until end of the game. Konyaspor despite of decline in some games in the end of the season, does provide some positive aspects for upcoming season.

As been noted this game does show that Besiktas needs urgently to find an attacking player to if it wants to fight for title next season.

Domenec Torrent, likely last game for him at the club, didnt end well.

Galatasaray has drawn against Antalyaspor during last season game with 1:1 draw as once again side did lose  concentration of the game which it suffered some weeks ago.

Meanwhile, some might say that getting draw against Antalyaspor at away game, opponent which didnt lose for 15 games, but Antalyaspor didnt provide its best performance during this particular game while Galatasaray did show some lacking of the game. Right now, its unclear what kind of future would be awaiting for Galatasaray at least until 11th June CEO election which includes uncleaniness of future of Domenec Torrent as noone of the CEO candidates dont want to work with him. It is reported that whoever would win would ask Torrent to provide his future to the club but it is clear that he would need to do lots of job to convince administration.

Assuming that chances of Torrent leaving club after CEO election, he didnt maange to get win at the last game of the season. 

Results:

Turkish Super League, 38th week:

Altay 2:4 Kasimpasa

Sivasspor 2:1 Kayserispor

Besiktas 1:1 Konyaspor

Yeni Malatyaspor 0:5 Fenerbahce

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 38th week:

16:00 Basaksehirspor - Trabzonspor

16:00 Fatih Karagurmruk - Alanyaspor

19:00 Hatayspor-Giresunspor

19:00 Adana Demirspor - Goztepe

In other news:

- 1stleague play-off round schedule has been announced:

semi-final, 1st leg:

25th March

18:30: Erzurumspor- Istanbulspor

21:00 Eyupspor - Bandirmaspor

semi-final, 2nd leg: 

29th March

15:30: Bandirmaspor-Eyupspor

18:00: Istanbulspor- Erzurumspor

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Manchester United player Jesse Lingard.
- Benfica are interested to transfer Manchester United player Ugurcan Cakir.
- Milan, Juventus, Sevilla and Arsenal are interested to transfer Feyenoord player Orkun Kokcu.
- Torino are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Marcao.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Swansea City player Cyrus Christie.
- Fenerbahce has made principal deal with Jorge Jesus for head coach position for 7 million euro.
- Trabzonspor player Anthony Nwakaeme requests 3.5 million euro for early salary for contract extension.

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