What happened in Turkish football today? 21/07/2022

Konyaspor got confident win against BATE Borisov.

Konyaspor has got an impressive and crucial win against BATE Borisov at away game with 3:0 scoreline and has shown dominant and attacking game for 90 minutes and showed how much they were ready for this game.

It needs to be mentioned that even through this game is being counted as an away game, it needs to be mentioned that it has been at Konya but without supporters and even because of that it could be noted that it did felt quite confident and comfortable at home ground and field. Starting from first whistle of the game, Konyaspor did show that it did come out for win during this game and has provided strong pressure towards BATE goal which led them to create high number of opportunities and hence score 3 goals in duration of 90 minutes. It is clear that Ilhan Palut did prepare his side in pretty concentrated manner which led them to be in much prepared form even through opponent did come out from league which were played half of the season.

Its been stated beforehand that BATE are not in same condition which they were several years ago but seriousness of its decline has been visible even more as it did fail to get any control of the game during whole game.

Konyaspor did get an important advantage after 1st leg and could only use this tie due of own relaxation and unneeded mistakes during 2nd leg. 

Basaksehirspor got unexpected draw against Maccabi Netanya.

Basaksehirspor did got unexpected draw against Maccabi Netanya during Conference League with 1:1 scoreline which did come out mainly due of conceding unexpected goal on 2nd minute of the game.

It needs to be mentioned that conceded goal which did come from Maccabi Netanya has affected negatively to the side as it had failed to get back to the game and did lack to get control of the game even through it did as game progressed. Maccabi Netanya main focus has been without doubt to provide some pressure towards Basaksehirspor players to which it wasnt able to respond even through following 2nd half there were seen some improvement with side improving and it managed to show much more pressure which led them to find crucial goal on 81st minute and equalise at least this tie. Basaksehirspor hence does keep its chances to get to 3rd qualifying round in the tournament alive but it would need to raise its performance during 2nd leg as Maccabi Netanya would look to be more agressive.

Maccabi Netanya did show some good performance against Basaksehirspor and most important has provided needed pressure towards opponent and without doubt an early goal did make their task much more easier and makes them slightly favourite with draw in 2nd leg in this tie.

Basaksehirspor has been expected to provide much more confident game but it has failed to get into the game and this an area which would need to be worked by Emre Belozoglu for 2nd leg.

 Fenerbahce got advantage outcome but needs to improve an attacking game for 2nd leg.

Fenerbahce has drawn Champions League 2nd qualifying round 1st leg game against Dinamo Kiev in Poland, and even through did get advantage scoreline, it still didnt provide strong game at attacking level.

It needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did lack showing strong and attacking game as it didnt have high enough tempo and also teamwork as for many chances in the attack an attacker has been left alone and didnt get enough. Due of ongoing Russian invasion to Ukraine, Dinamo Kiev did look to be out of form which became even more clearer during an attacking opportunities but with lacking last touches and also low amount of them didnt provide enough pressure to Dinamo Kiev goal. When coming into defensive aspect it needs to be mentioned that side did look to be pretty organised, even through Dinamo did have some good counterattacks but in overrall it wasnt too bad and side needs to include its attacking level for 2nd leg if it wants to get to 3rd qualifying round.

Fenerbahce does come out to 2nd leg, with home advantage as favourite, but it needs to raise its performance level during that game.

Results:

UEFA Conference League, 2nd qualifying round, 1st leg:

Koper 0:1 Vaduz (winner of this tie would be playing against winner BATE-Konyaspor at 3rd qualifying round)

Basaksehirspor 1:1 Netanya

BATE 0:3 Konyaspor

Breidablik 2:0 Buducnost 

In other news:

- Trabzonspor has announced pre-season friendlies:

- 23/07: vs. Torino 

- 25/07: vs. Empoli

- Genoa has signed Guven Yalcin.

- AdanaDemirspor has signed Telavi player Giorgi Khabuliani.

- Nantes has loaned Galatasaray player Mustafa Muhammed for 250,000 euro fee with 5,750,000 euro transfer option.

- Fenerbahce has signed Cagliari player Joao Pedro for 3-years with 4,680,000 euro transfer fee.

- Galatasaray has signed Olympique Lyon player Leo Dubois for 3-years with 2,500,000 euro transfer fee and 1,800,000 euro salary

- Rangers has offered 5 million euro for Besiktas player Serdar Saatci but club requests 6.5 million euro +%20 share from next transfer

- Trabzonspor has started extension negotiations with Djaniny Semedo.

- Besiktas considers to sell its player Serdar Saatci during this summer transfer window.

- Stuttgart has offered 1-year loan deal to Fenerbahce player Mergim Berisha.

- Strasbourg has offered 1.2 million euro to Galatasaray for Sacha Boey but club requests 1.5 million euro.

- Galatasaray has offered 7 million euro to Rangers player Glen Kamara.

- Ankaragucu has loaned Samsunspor player Nurullah Aslan for 1-year with transfer option.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Benfica player Umaro Embalo.

- Napoli are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Altay Bayindir.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Bayer Leverkusen player Nadiem Amiri.