What happened in Turkish football today? 20/10/2022

Galatasaray got good win against Kastamonuspor

Galatasaray has got a confident win against Kastamonuspor as been expected with 7:0 scoreline at Turkish Cup and has regained confidence and motivation for upcoming games.

With Okan Buruk coming out to the game mainly with players who dont recieve much of playing time but are being selected to 18-team squad at league games has got an opportunity to show they quality and willingness to be selected for starting 11. It needs to be mentioned that many players such as Bafetembi Gomis, Milot Rashica among others did provide without doubt some strong and confident performance and could be thought by Okan Buruk in upcoming games to be selected at starting 11. Without doubt, Galatasaray has stayed at game for 90 minutes which sometimes could be difficulty when playing against opponent like Kastamonuspor who are located at 2nd league.

It needs to be mentioned that this win should not be seen as something over achievement but it did provide an important confidence and motivation boost for upcoming games.

TFF has given forum regarding VAR to all clubs.

TFF has organised an important event tonight where it had provided details regarding of VAR protocols and did answer lots of questions regarding of the system which did provide some confusion.

There has been lots of criticism towards VAR system at Turkish football in general weeks and hence it was important for TFF to provide such forum to some extend to all Turkish clubs who wanted join to describe how is system is working. Even through there were some issues with VAR in Turkish football and some did have impact into result of the games, it is important to note that in view of this blog so far VAR is doing pretty good job and is being improving without doubt. It is here important for all parties involved to provide support to this system to go forward.

Criticising VAR system will not be solving issues especially ones which are not productive but should be given focus on how to improve system together.

Criticism towards referee only does harm to clubs themselves.

With Galatasaray administrator Erdem Timur giving press conference where he criticises VAR system is being more to be unproductive rather than moving game forward.

Whenever things are not going well for clubs, especially when its top 4 big clubs in Turkey, there is strong criticism towards referee and an attempt to not identify issues which it have within club both to public and what seems to themselves. It is been observed that for last seasons, sides which has been most quiet about refereeing tend to have good season. During this season Fenerbahce didnt make any statement and arguably providing one of the strongest performance, Trabzonspor didnt make any statement and got title with goal difference.In fact, when Besiktas did make statements 2 years ago, stating that there is prevention to make them champions, they almost lost title as they comments rose. Therefore, administrators of club would need to give more attention into internal solution than wasting energy to referees.

Hence, such statements are being unproductive to Turkish football in general and themselves specifically.

Results:

Turkish Cup, 3rd round:

Genclerbirligi 3:1 Nigde Anadolu

Menemenspor 0:1 Bulvarspor

Tuzlaspor 2:1 Bursa

Yeni Malatyaspor 3:3 (pen: 5:4) Agri 1970

Giresunspor 3:1 Yeni Amasyaspor

Gaziantep 4:0 Sariyer

In other news:

PFDK decisions:

- Kayserispor has recieved 362,000 TL fine for not leaving stairs empty, accepting unallowed fans, accepting fans without security checks, events on field.

- Kayserispor workers Savas Akti, Erdal Yol and Serhat Colak, Ankaragucu worker Ahmet Ozturk, Cezmi Kaya and Mehmet Emir Polat  has received 15-days of deprivation of right 

- Galatasaray has recieved 126, 000 TL for events on field and behaviour of fans.

- Basaksehirspor trainer Erdinc Sozer has received 1-game ban and 126,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship behaviour towards referee.

- Besiktas has received 186,000 TL fine events on field and. behaviour of fans.

- Trabzonspor player Yusuf Yazici recieved 2-game ban for serious foul to opponent.

-Konyaspor and Alanyaspor has received 56,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans.

- Antalyaspor has received 50,000 TL fine for not leaving stairs empty.

- Ankaragucu has received 288,750 TL fine for behaviour of fans, not leaving  stairs empty,  accepting unallowed fans and events on field.

- Fenerbahce has received 152,000 TL fine for events on field and fans behaviour

- TFF has announced winners of Fair Play Awards of 1-8th week of Super League:

- Team Award: Sivasspor

- Head Coach: Cagdas Atan(Kayserispor)

- Players award: Ugurcan Cakir(Trabzonspor) and Fatih Ozgokcen(Konyaspor)

- Supporters: Basaksehirspor

- Besiktas player Rachid Ghezzal will not be able to play for 2 weeks due of injury.- Galatasaray has been referred to PFDK due of events on field

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Internacional player Fabricio Bustos.

- InterMilan are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Miguel Crespo.