30 September 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 29/09/2022



Istanbul mayorship announced that no away fans will be allowed during derbies.

Istanbul mayorship has made statement that during games between big 3 clubs, namely Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Besiktas away fans would not be allowed to be entering to game which includes this week derby game.

As been noted at previous blog entry, there seems to be hooliganism behaviour between supporters which runs to old times and before this ban has been put for first time back in 2010's there were some unwanted events during matchdays so this decision without doubt has been right one and would reduce tension which exists between supporters and would prevent injuries and even deaths between supporters.

It does look like that this decision would be staying for long time as hooliganistic action between those 3 clubs supporters still exist and will not be solved easily.

Kevin Nkoudou has become injured.

Besiktas player Kevin Nkoudou has become injured during training session as this development without doubt would not be wanted one prior to derby game against Fenerbahce.

Kevin Nkoudou has provided unbalanced performance during this season as he took one of the leadership role in attack while others looked to be pretty ineffective and it was reasonable to expect that he would have shown good performance in such important game. Taking account how he performed in games which he did show good game, it would be seen as big loss and Valerine Ismael would now look for good replacement at attacking level to support Wout Weghorst.

This injury likely would lead for Ismael to revise his tactics which he did have prior to game.

Ghezzal and Redmond have recovered from injured.

As Kevin Nkoudou has become injured, there were good news from Racchid Ghezzal and Nathan Redmond as players has resumed training sessions and would be expected to be playing against Fenerbahce.

Absence of especially Racchid Ghezzal would have affected team negatively during derby game and him coming possibly to game would be expected to strength attacking midfielding so this would be seen as good development. Nathan Redmond coming back is also good news as he did show signs of recent games to be improving and certainly would take this game against Fenerbahce pretty serious.

Therefore, return to training session of this two players would be seen as positive outcome without doubt. 

Results:

Turkish Cup, 2nd round:

Diyarbakirspor 3:0 Kars 36spor

Belediye Derince 0:1 Yeni Amasyaspor

Menemenspor 3:2 Bigaspor

Eskisehirspor 2:3 Musspor

In other news:

- Galatasaray administrator Erden Timur has stated that club considers to play farewell game to its ex-player Arda Turan who has retired from professional career earlier.

- InterMilan are interested to transfer Leicester City player Caglar Soyuncu.

- Besiktas has made extension deal with its player Ersin Destanoglu for 5-years with 13 million euro salary.

- Fenerbahce considers to sell its player Miha Zajc during mid-season transfer window.


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