Fenerbahce ends its group at the top in well-deserved manner.
Fenerbahce has marked history as it managed to end group stage at the top spot during Europa League as it has managed to beat Dynamo Kyiv with 2:0 scoreline as Rennes drew against AEK Larnaca.
Prior to game, there were expectations that Fenerbahce would need to get confident win against Dynamo Kyiv as Rennes has high possibility to get confident win against Cypriot side, but thankfully to Fenerbahce it does look like AEK did provide some good resistance. Coming to Fenerbahce game, it needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did provide tactical game without raising tempo of the game too high and finding goals when needed as it did find great goal with Arda Guler who has scored his 1st European goal in his career by being most importantly at right moment at the right time for sure. Fenerbahce after 2:0 has reduced tempo after 2nd goal which been scored by Arao as Rennes likely also lost concentration and belief that it could find more goals than Fenerbahce.
Dynamo Kyiv did aim to provide some good ending at the group stage, and it did to do that but with lack of motivation and also issues outside of football didnt let them to provide strong resistance. Meanwhile, despite of poor performance Dynamo Kyiv and other Ukrainian clubs needs to be praised as they did compete while they country is going through very difficult times.
Fenerbahce did have good competition so far without losing one game and ends at top in deserved manner for sure.
Win against Ferencvaros wasnt enough for knockout stage for Trabzonspor.
Trabzonspor has got win against Ferencvaros in the last week of the Europa League group stage thanks to great goal from Bakasetas but this win hasnt been enough for knockout stages as Monaco has won in parallel game against Crvena Zvezda.
With Ferencvaros arleady securing its top position in the group and hence was expected to come out to the game with rotation, Trabzonspor were expecting to come as favourite as it needed urgently a win and it has got an early goal at 1st minute. However, with goal news coming from Monaco it has reduced tempo of the game for Trabzonspor as Monaco carried on scoring to secure its 2nd spot. With Ferencvaros as been noted coming out to game with being secure of top spot, game has been played in mediocre side with Trabzonspor more or less securing top place. Still, Trabzonspor did show good game and right attitude but due of points which been reduced on previous week, it didnt get results which it seeked for.
Ferencvaros as been noted did come out to the game with securing 1st spot it didnt show level of performance which it has shown during this group stage but still showed some good organised game with rotated squad.
Trabzonspor did they best to get top spot in the group but with loss of points on previous weeks has led them to lose an opportunity to get to the knockout stage and would now compete at Conference League.
Sivasspor gets result which it seeked for top spot in the group.
Sivasspor has ended group stage at Conference League Group H at top spot as it did get minumum scoreline which it needed even through it did have pretty nervous last 20 minutes due of own goal from Goutas.
Sivasspor it needs to be mentioned didnt have very good start of the group stage but did raise its performance during 2nd part of the group stage and for sure did well deserved top spot. Coming out to this game, Sivasspor did start game in strong and confident manner with showing that it wanted to get at top spot and hence not wanting to play to 2nd round of the game. Sivasspor in fact did find an early goal thanks to the Max Gradel. It needs to be mentioned that after that it did look confident and did look for 2nd goal but couldnt find one as Slavia Prague did show also organised game as own goal did come from pressure which led for Goutas to make mistake. Still, Sivasspor did show good game with high concentration and got result which it seeked for.
Slavia Prague did come to much pressure game as it did need to win and hence provided in such manner but did have time to find needed goals against Sivasspor as it shown strong confident game. With this outcome Sivasspor has been relegated from Conference League with this result as it been mixture of competition for them.
Sivasspor did show impressive performance in this tournament and would be happy not to play next round and until March could focus to league game which didnt go as well as Conference League until now.
Results:
UEFA Europa League, Group H, 6th week:
Trabzonspor 1:0 Ferencvaros
Monaco 4:1 Crvena Zvezda
UEFA Europa League, Group B, 6th week:
Dynamo Kiev 0:2 Fenerbahce
Rennes 1:1 AEK Larnaca
UEFA Conference League, Group G, 6th week:
Basaksehirspor 3:1 Hearts
RFS 0:3 Fiorentina
UEFA Conference League, Group A, 6th week:
Slavia Prague 1:1 Sivasspor
CFR Cluj 1:0 FC Ballkani
Schedule:
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20:00 Umraniyespor - Alanyaspor
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