13 November 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 12/11/2022



 Galatasaray has destroyed Basaksehirspor in key game of the week.

Galatasaray has humiliated suprisingly against Basaksehirspor during Super League which would decide which side would enter at 2nd spot to World Cup break, as Galatasaray has found 7 goals without reply with Kerem Akturkoglu getting hattrick.

It needs to be mentioned that game did start at pretty low tempo with both sides getting some mistakes with passing but as scoreline provides Galatasaray has shown much more attacking game and looked to be more organised. Galatasaray meanwhile is providing very good performance in the last 2 weeks and also showing some positive game at the Turkish Cup, and this without doubt has affected to this performance too. Therefore, it could be argued that Galatasaray especially during 1st half didnt provide high tempo performance but it has much better plan while Basaksehirspor did look to be pretty ineffective and couldnt get into the game, and Galatasaray has used this into its own hand without doubt. It has also been very important for Kerem Akturkoglu who does recieve lots of criticism during this season to score hat-trick with getting high confidence and reminding everyone that he plays important role in this team. With this result Galatasaray also send strong message to Fenerbahce and whole league that it would be fighting for title this season.

Basaksehirspor has provided least organised performance during start of this season and had an issue to get inside the game with providing low team, high passing mistakes and letting Galatasaray to dominate game. With this result Emre Belozoglu would enter to World Cup break with many deep thoughts for sure.

Galatasaray hence has got very unexpected confident win and would enter to World Cup break with high expectation and strong signs of what it could do after 44 days break. 

Fenerbahce has shown signs of tiredness against Giresunspor.

Fenerbahce got an unexpected loss against Giresunspor which it being 2nd loss during this season as it has played whole 2nd half with one less man from Joao Pedro as opponent provided organised performance. 

It needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did look to be slightly tired compare to its previous games which could be understood as it played hogh number of players and didnt provide strong attacking game even when it did play 11-on-11. It needs to be stated despite of this tiredness, Fenerbahce did show some good organising game for 90 minutes with looking for chances but it didnt provide right high tempo which was seen in previous games which did happen also due of good defensive game from Giresunspor. In fact, it was visible some signs of tiredness also on last week game against Sivasspor, so it could be mentioned that even through there were belief that for side in good form going to long break would be disadvantage, this game did show that it does need rest and regain energy during this World Cup break.

Giresunspor meanwhile did provide some good organising game with providing low tempo game without getting into too much attacks and used its two good attacks has turned them to win game. Hence, with focus into defensive game did play an important role for such important win for them.

Fenerbahce hence did show some signs of tiredness during Giresunspor game but good news for them is that they would enter to break as being leaders.

Trabzonspor continues showing decline with its performance.

Trabzonspor are continuing showing decline of its performance as it got draw against Ankaragucu as it has ended game with 1:1 scoreline without providing too much creativity in the attacking game.

It needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor continues having some decline compare to last season as it does lose tempo and does sign of fighting spirit for win in this period of time and this has been case during 2nd half. Trabzonspor and Ankaragucu did have an issue to get into tempo of the game as it has been played at low tempo during 1st half which has affected to performance. In fact, excitement of game did come only for 5 minutes, between 69-73rd minute, where both goals did come from both sides and has ended result. One of the serious issues without doubt that Trabzonspor did concede goal in very short notice and didnt do much to keep scoreline. Trabzonspor has been among sides who had high number of games during this season due of European games and hence this World Cup break would keep opportunity to regain and improve its tactical game.

Hence, Trabzonspor will enter to World Cup break without result which it was seeking for and most importantly made it clear that it would need to make some changes tactically which Abdullah Avci would look for. 

Results:

Turkish Super League, 14th week:

Sivasspor 2:2 Umraniyespor

Fenerbahce 1:2 Giresunspor

Basaksehirspor 0:7 Galatasaray

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 14th week:

14:30 Fatih Karagumruk - Gaziantep

17:00 Istanbulspor - Hatayspor

17:00 Kayserispor - Konyaspor

20:00 Besiktas - Antalyaspor

In other news:

- Trabzonspor player Dorukhan Tokoz recovery process has been extended for 1.5 months due of getting infection.

- Roma are interested to transfer Galatasaray-loaned player Mauro Icardi.

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