Fenerbahce will focus to restart season at high point against Istanbulspor
Turkish football season is being back following an exciting World Cup 2022 with Turkish Cup 5th round games as Fenerbahce and Istanbulspor game is being most eye-catching game on 20th December.
It needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did have pretty good World Cup period at which at beginning players had got an opportunity to get rest until pretty difficult season so far and afterwards had very good training camp in Istanbul and Antalya winning all of the friendly games. Without doubt, Fenerbahce would be focussing to continue such winning spirit at Turkish Cup as it would be playing against fellow Super League side and get win both to get confidence boost prior to Trabzonspor game in league and also carry on at Turkish Cup. Fenerbahce will be coming as favourites but Istanbulspor has capacity to provide some issues towards them.
Fenerbahce hence would be seeking to get restart of the season at the high point and show that their have also high aims at Turkish Cup too.
Super League representatives did show memorable performance at World Cup 2022.
Even through only one player has managed to get into semi-final stage among ones who is playing at Turkish Super League, it needs to be mentioned that number of player did leave they mark to historical World Cup at Qatar.
Without doubt, among incredible and memorable performance of Morocco which led them to end World Cup 2022 at 4th spot, Romain Saiss has played pretty memorable performance at defence as being one of the key players at the effective and organised defensive style. Negative part is only being that he would be returning to Besiktas with injury which could take place for some weeks. Another player which does deserve is being Weghorst who even through didnt get much playing time, did score 2 goals against Argentina at memorable comeback during quarter-final stage and could even win game against future champions if things went as planned at penalty. Other memorable performances has been great start of Enner Valencia at Ecuador who did score 3 goals in 2 games but his side not continuing at tournament and without doubt Haji Wright who played an important role for his side to get into knockout stages.
Hence, even through we didnt see any Turkish players at World Cup final game, generally those players did show good performance.
Lessons should be learned from World Cup to Turkish football community.
With World Cup 2022 being over, there were some talks how things would been if Turkish National Team has been at this tournament especially in beginning. Even through most of Turkish sports media did look at this hypotheticial question in optimistic view, our view is more grim.
Excluding of World Cup historical final and generally knockout stages, when even looking at group stages the chances of good results and performances are not being seen too positive. Only group which Turkey could possibly from where it could be qualified, is Group A where Turkey did take UEFA spot of Holland if it got into tournament. To all respect to Qatar, Senegal and Ecuador, it would not be expected for Turkey to have lots of problems, but when looking into other groups chances would been pretty low. Sadly, according to interviews, most of Turkish CEO's, players and coaches in beginning of tournament were reluctant to watch games and this is being worrying as there would been learned lots of lessons and place to improve. Obviously, just viewing games will not make them better players/coaches, but would give important hints how to improve into some areas.
Level of this World Cup, despite of lots uncertainty prior to tournament, has been very high and there are very important notes to be taken to everyone who has direct involvement at Turkish football.
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