What happened in Turkish football today? 17/09/2022

 Istanbulspor has got surprising result against Besiktas.

Istanbulspor has got suprising result against Besiktas as it got 2:2 draw with providing strong and confident performance against Istanbul giants and even through didnt provide necesarrily top level performance, it has shown strong confident performance.

It needs to be mentioned that Besiktas did struggle to get full control of the game and did lack concentration as normally to all respect with Istanbulspor would be expected to be getting confident game. Therefore, Besiktas did have decline among fast tempo which been case in first game as it did found an interesting openning goal from free kick as it is been indirect shot but let for Nkoudou to be shooting directly while interesting Istanbulspor goalkeeper tried to save which led for him to get conceded goal. Another factor is too much relaxation of the game when it got ahead of both times which led for Istanbulspor to be finding 2 goals. It needs to be mentioned that if there is signs of physical tiredness of Besiktas, then this national team break would go into their hand. There is also been decline by Wout Weghorst as he didnt provide too much pressure to Istanbulspor goal during whole game as was case in last week.

With Istanbulspor being struggling side and not providing top league level performance, it has shown strong character and fighting spirit during whole game and got strong comeback both times. This fighting spirit would be crucial point for upcoming weeks.

Besiktas continues showing decline in recent weeks which did come from previous week loss and some changes mentally and tactically would need ot be made by Valerien Ismael during this national team break.

Galatasaray gets 3 points against tough Konyaspor.

Galatasaray has won Super League 7th week game against Konyaspor with 2:1 scoreline as their opponents didnt complete single goal until this game and has entered to national team break with good motivation.

Galatasaray didnt necesarrily provide very strong performance during 90 minutes especially during 2nd half as it did lose high tempo which it did shown at 1st half but has managed to get win as Konyaspor has shown parallel performance during game and quality factor. In fact, it could be noted that game has been played with two halves, as first half did show top level high tempo game which led for both sides to get tired during 2nd half. Meanwhile, it has been important for Sergio Oliviera to find his openning goal at 1st minute of the game as he has been unlucky during previous games with getting posts 5 times in duration of 6 games. Also, Mauro Icardi played 30 minutes and with strong pressure let for Calvi to score an own goal.

Hence, Galatasaray does need improvement but it is being side which does improve by each week and upcoming for 3 weeks would be good news for them.  

Fenerbahce coming out as strong favourites against struggling Alanyaspor

Fenerbahce will be returning to the Super League after 1 week break as it would be meeting with struggling Alanyaspor as side would be coming with high confidence after showing great comeback against Rennes at Europa League.

Fenerbahce is being side which does improve by each week and getting closer to an attacking game which Jorge Jesus focusses to right now and hence does come out as strong favourites. Alanyaspor is unable to get into level which we used to see from them in previous weeks and this would be expected to be good opportunity for Fenerbahce ot provide an effective attacking game which would even more provide confidence to the team. It is expected that Fenerbahce would be coming out to the field with another rotation as Jesus does that each week but still would be expected to show forward seeking effective game. Alanyaspor meanwhile could see this game as turning point and would seek for at least point.

Fenerbahce hence would be coming to Alanyaspor as favourite and expect to show strong attacking game for whole game.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 7th week:

Umraniyespor 1:2 Kasimpasa

Antalyaspor 0:3 Adana Demirspor

Istanbulspor 2:2 Besiktas

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 7th week:

17:00 Trabzonspor - Gaziantep

17:00 Basaksehirspor - Fatih Karagumruk

20:00 Ankaragucu - Sivasspor

20:00 Fenerbahce - Alanyaspor

In other news:

- Hatayspor head coach Serkan Ozbalta has resigned from his post.

- Besiktas administrator board CEO Tevfik Yamanturk has been reelected to same position.

- Ankaragucu CEO Faruk Koca: Decision from TFF to give us 1-game ban is not right. This action has been done by one 1 person, and his identity is known. Why should 25,000 people pay price for 1 person action?

- Istanbulspor player Valon Ethemi has become injured.

- Hatayspor are interested to appoint Sami Ugurlu for 1+1 years.