20 September 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 19/09/2022



 Fenerbahce is only side to show top level European football in league.

Fenerbahce continues having an impressive performance during this season, especially at attack with scoring 20 goals so far making it most goalscoring season so far in its history, with 5 of them coming to Alanyaspor.

Without doubt, Fenerbahce head coach Jorge Jesus has brought an top European level performance from his side which were not seen from Turkish football. With lots of rotation, and playing games twice per week, Jorge Jesus didnt provide any complaints and so didnt players. He also brought rotation which is not usual in Turkey, and even been used has been unsuccessful, as  with such system he is being able to keep every player to play and also provides unexpectedness and difficulty to prepare for opponents. Fenerbahce has dominated whole game against Alanyaspor and didnt let opponents not only to show counter-reaction but also show any signs that it is capable to show it.

Fenerbahce is right now being only side which shows top level performance in the league, and has all signs to continue like this after national team break.

Trabzonspor still are not at top level performance.

Trabzonspor has managed to turn around and show great comeback from 2:0 to win Gaziantep with 3:2 scoreline but it needs to be mentioned that there still in level they would like to.

Foremost, its needs to be mentioned that with going behind 2:0 as early as 10th minute, has been both for Gaziantep to be showing effective 2 attacks but also lack of showing strong defensive game during this period. Positive thing for Trabzonspor is not to be affected negatively with this outcome and to find 1st goal early and be able to balance game. Still when looking into game for 90 minutes it could be mentioned that it could be shown better performance especially during 2nd half with momentum going into they hand with last minute goal on 1st half from penalty. Trabzonspor without doubt is being one of the main sides who needs national team break as it would be able to provide them period to solve some issues and regain morale when league will be resumed.

Trabzonspor does get points from previous games but still far from level which it been on previous season and it needs to find ways how to get into that level once again.

Hatayspor appoints Volkan Demirel for 1+1 years.

Hatayspor has made deal with Volkan Demirel for head coach role for 1+1 years as there expectation for long coach to raise side from last spot and relegation zone.

Even through Volkan Demirel didnt have very good start of the season with Fatih Karagumruk, he did show some good performance with his team in previous season and hence did prove to be coach who can get positive results. With Hatayspor being side with high potential and good seasons on previous seasons, it could be seen surprising for side to be at last spot with only 1 point and Volkan Demirel does have difficult job to turn around performance of Hatayspor with national team break providing chance to work on team. 

Volkan Demirel is capable to get some good results with Hatayspor but he would need to get support from whole club community for sure.

In other news:

- UEFA has appointed Tobias Steiner as referee of Nations League game between Turkey and Luxembourg.

- Galatasaray and Istanbulspor will play friendly game on 24th September.

- Sivasspor player Ahmed Musa has become injured.

- TFF referee education consultant Hugh Dallas: Generally we happy with level of performance of Turkish referees in duration of 6 weeks. Of course, its not perfect but its not perfect anywhere. We aim to reduce mistakes.VAR quality here is very high.

- Ankaragucu player Tasos has been selected to Greek National Team for Nations League games.

- Augsburg, Union Berlin and Schalke 04 are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Serdar Dursun

- Galatasaray has signed sponsorship deal with Aras Kargo.


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