What happened in Turkish football today? 12/08/2022

Trabzonspor gets 3 points at its first home ground game against Hatayspor

Title holders Trabzonspor continue to be winning games during this season as it has won 2nd league game back-to-back at its first home ground game against Hatayspor even through it needs to be mentioned that side didnt get into rhythm yet which we saw in previous season.

It needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor did look to be side which has been at the form during this game with creating high number of opportunities compare to Hatayspor but it is hard to mention that Trabzonspor attacks has been very effective and did lack last touches. Stating that, scored goal from Abdulkadir Omur needs to be taken out of this analysis as it is being scored from far distance and into perfect shot to which Hatayspor goalkeeper couldnt provide any prevention. To some extend, in such games where things might not go as it wished for despite of being side which controlled game it would been crucial to score goal in such great way with individual quality and luck. Trabzonspor once again did look to be better side but it did lack that final touch and this is an area which it needs to improve on as it would play against Copenhagen in the Champions League play-off round.

Hatayspor did come out to its first game during this season, as it is being side which didnt play due of being bye from schedule and it did provide good prevention to Trabzonspor but even through it did create also some chances, it didnt manage to get control of the game for most amount of the game.

Trabzonspor continues getting good results as it got 2 out of 2 in the league but it still being far from rhythm which we saw from side during previous season.

Fenerbahce got to the next stage with passive game.

Fenerbahce has got 1:1 draw during Europa League 3rd qualifying round 2nd leg game against Slovacko but thanks to 3:0 win during 1st leg gets to the play-off round where it would meet with Austria Wien.

Due of calmness and advantage which Fenerbahce got following 1st leg, side did come out with big rotation and also providing calm and slightly passive game as the main aim has been to get to the next stage and also provide chance to players who are not regular starting 11. Despite of draw outcome and also unhappiness with some of the supporters with how side performed, it could be noted that Fenerbahce did get what it seeked for as it played game in training session. With Slovacko not being side which could return from 3:0 loss against Fenerbahce certainly has provided some confidence to the team during this 90 minutes. 

Therefore, got what it aimed for but it would to see ways how to improve its performance against Kasimpasa in league and later against Austria Wien.

Basaksehirspor continued attacking performance against Breidablik

If Fenerbahce has provided economical game against Slovacko, Basaksehirspor continued to provide positive game with some attacks against Breidablik during Conference League as it got win with 3:1 scoreline and gets to next stage with 6:1 aggregate.

Basaksehirspor is being side which has improved by each game and during league does look to be side at most in form in this stage of the season, and such continuation of top performance has been crucial to continue at Breidablik which it did. With providing respect to opponent, Basaksehirspor has continued providing an attacking highly confident performance which led them to find 3 great goals. With such win without doubt Basaksehirspor does send strong message to Royal Antwerp with who it would meet at play-off round.

Basaksehirspor does look to be side to be beaten right now as it continue not to win games but also do it in very confident manner with high number of goals.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 2nd week:

Trabzonspor 1:0 Hatayspor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 2nd week:

19:15 Kayserispor - Istanbulspor

21:45 Galataasaray - Giresunspor

21:45 Adana Demirspor - Sivasspor

In other news:

- UEFA has appointed William Collum as Europa League play-off round 1st leg game between Austria Wien and Fenerbahce.

- Basaksehirspor has extended contract with its player Muhammet Arslantas for 3-years.

- Sivasspor has signed Kader Keita for 3-years.

- Kasimpasa has signed CFR Cluj player Daniel Graovac

- OlympiqueLyon and Olympique Marseille are expected to offer 15 million euro to Galatasaray for Kerem Akturkoglu.

- Galatasaray has stopped transfer negotiations with Midjylland player Evander.

Galatasaray are interested to transfer PSG player Mauro Icardi.

- Penarol player Ramon Aris has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Giresunspor.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Zurich player Becir Omeragic.

- Galatasaray player Semih Kaya has stated that he is retiring from footballing career.

- Fenerbahce and Galatasaray will be having transfer negotiations with Cheikhou Kouyate.

- Antalyaspor didnt release players licence of its players Deni Milosevic, Erkan Eyibil, Ersin Zehir and Gustavo Blanco.

- Trabzonspor has signed Levante player Enis Bardhi with paying 3 million euro release clause which would be paid with 3 installments.

- HullCity has made principal deal with Brentford player Halil Dervisoglu.

- WestHamUnited didnt make transfer deal with Fenerbahce player Atilla Szalai.