31 December 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 30/12/2022



Galatasaray ends year with controversial win against Sivasspor.

Galatasaray has managed to end 2022 as league leaders after winning Sivasspor with 2:1 scoreline at very highly controversial game while playing at very poor conditioned football field.

Without doubt, the position of Sivasspor goal which been disallowed for unknown reasons as it been disallowed with VAR decision which has spotted offside which wasnt there has got lots of question towards refereeing performance. It needs to be mentioned that Sivasspor which are being close at relegation zone did come out for very important game and such decision could have direct impact into outcome of such game. Galatasaray it needs to be mentioned on overall did provide good performance on 1st half and did find winning goal on very important moment but it did show once again decline of its performance during 2nd half, as Sivasspor did found equaliser and also scored that disallowed goal earlier. Still, it needs to be mentioned that fighting spirit did let for Baris Alper Yilmaz to score winning goal.

It is reported meanwhile that Galatasaray has made a statement that it would pay 5 million TL bonuses to its players for this win.

Besiktas got crucial win against Adana Demirspor as it enters to 2023.

Besiktas has ended calendar year with very important win against in-form Adana Demirspor thanks to great free-kick of Masuaku and has kept side at the leadership race with 7 points behind Galatasaray.

It is hard to state that Besiktas did provide very good performance, especially during 2nd half, but its been enough to get such an important win and let its opponets to lose 2nd time during this season. Besiktas did look to be showing pretty strong and effective performance with controlling ball, but still there were some signs of quality in some moments of the time and in fact it did show some decline of performance in 2nd half even through it wasnt as drastic as in previous games. Still, Adana Demirspor did get very good opportunities during 2nd half and has been very close to equaliser as ball hit post by Gulbrandsen shot. 

This win still provided an important confidence and motivation for 2023 and kept them hopes for title arrive with this result for sure.

Dia Saba has left Sivasspor due of family reasons.

Sivasspor player Dia Saba has announced that he would be living club due of familiar reasons and hence confirming rumours which been going around Turkish sports media in past weeks.

Dia Saba has organised press conference where he stated that reason of him living has been entirely of family reasons with one of the reasons has been that there wasnt school in English in Sivas where his kids could be attending. It has been also talked a lot that in overall his wife is being unhappy at the city. This case does show that stability at family does play an important role especially taking around that Saba is being happy at the team and did provide good performance and his absence would affect negatively as side would need to be looking at the team as he did play important role at attack.

Dia Saba decision is based into putting family first rather than professional contract and this decision in all fairness needs to be respected.

In other news:

- AdanaDemirspor CEO Murat Sancak has stated that some of the players in team had 39-40 degrees temperature few days before Besiktas game.

- Galatasaray administrator Erden Timur: We are also asking for VAR conversation to be made public. We also want to know why Sivasspor goal has been disallowed. Players say ball went to out. We also ask to make clear Nelsson penalty position.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer RB Leipzig player Alexander Sorloth.

- Internacional are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Luiz Adriano.

- Monaco are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Altay Bayindir.

- FatihKaragumruk has terminated contract with its player Steven Caulkner.

- LeicesterCity considers to extend contract with its player Caglar Soyuncu

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