What happened in Turkish football today? 24/10/2022

Besiktas continues losing points with poor tactical game.

Besiktas continues showing dissatisfactorily performance as it has lost against struggling Hatayspor with 2:1 scoreline with reducing level of performance after 30 minutes and didnt provide any effective game during 2nd half.

It needs to be mentioned that Besiktas did have perfect start of the game as it has found openning goal thanks to the Wout Weghorst at 34th second of the game with great organised and attacking position. After that goal Besiktas has continued strong effective game with 2 goals being disallowed and also penalty decision without letting Hatayspor to get into chances. In fact, the factor that Hatayspor didnt concede in this period has helped them to win game. However, as game has progressed after 30th minute and especially during 2nd half Besiktas had serious decline with losing tempo of the game and letting Hatayspor to get some control which it has ued effectively without doubt. Things for Besiktas are not going well especially at tactical game as Valerien Ismael does look to be having issues with having alternative plans and with providing similar game leads opponents to know how side would play.

Hatayspor did have veyr poor 1st half of the game without showing any effective performance and made some mistakes especially at midfield but with scoreline staying with 1:0 scoreline has kept them at game and with raising tempo of the game during 2nd half has led them to find win in strong reaction.

Besiktas hence continues showing poor performance especially during 2nd half and in one or another it would need to do some drastic changes into tactical performance of the side.

Galatasaray did come out to game waiting for referee to make mistake.

Turkish Super League game between Galatasaray and Alanyaspor has been sadly been overshadowed with red card of Sacha Boey which did come from wrong analysing of situation and which led in belief of Istanbul giant to lose 2 points.

Foremost, it needs to be mentioned that decision which been made by Abdulkerim Parmak has been wrong one and such decision has been decided too fast but it needs to be mentioned that even through it is being crucial mistake, it has been only one towards Galatasaray. It also needs to be mentioned that Alanyaspor didnt also recieve penalty even through it wasnt as much clear as this position but still. Galatasaray did make some negative statements towards referee prior to game and has been waiting for mistake to happen during game which also includes right decision of 2 disallowed goals and also providing pressure to referee. Such actions without doubt could provide lots of pressure towards referee.

This blog doesnt state that red card has been right decision towards Sacha Boey, but Galatasaray did focus too much and hence has lost concentration of the game which led them to lose 2 points.

Osman Zeki Korkmaz has resigned as Istanbulspor head coach role

Istanbulspor head coach Osman Zeki Korkmaz has resigned from his post after some unsuccessful results and also finding his side to be at bottom part of the table.

It needs to be mentioned that Istanbulspor didnt necesarrily provide very bad performance with Osman Zeki Korkmaz and tried to show some positive game but it did have issues with converting chances and some attacking decisions. With Korkmaz resigning himself by itself shows that he doesnt find solutions to this issues and hence doesnt see him staying at club providing good service and movement forward. Istanbulspor has treated this decision and would now to look for new coach who would be able to turn around team performance.

Istanbulspor does have potential to be higher slightly higher at table but needs to improve its attacking game as it would be focus for new coach.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 11th week:

Hatayspor 2:1 Besiktas 

Giresunspor 1:1 Ankaragucu

In other news:

- Turkish referee Halil Umut Meler will referee Champions League game between Napoli and Rangers.

- Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur has become injured.

- Galatasaray player Kazimcan Karatas has become injured.

- Galatasaray assistant coach Moritz Volz has attended his 1st training session with his new club.

- Fenerbahce has announced that injury of its player Ismail Yuksek is not being serious.

- Braga player Serdar Saatci has been moved to reserve side of the team.