Besiktas unstable game within game let them to be eliminated to Ankaragucu
Besiktas has been relegated from Turkish Cup last 16 stage as it has lost to Ankaragucu at penalty kick as it fails to provide strong and confident performance on the field for 90 minutes.
Besiktas due of recent form and quality level of the team did come to Ankaragucu as favourites as there was expectations that win against Gaziantep would provide strong confidence boost. However, we did see similar performance from Besiktas on this game as in previous games, as it has provided performance of two halves.Besiktas did look to be pretty passive on the field during 1st half as Ankaragucu has shown much more controllable and focussed game which has also led for side to get goal. It needs to be mentioned that it did provide much more better performance in 2nd half and it has been important for goal to come when they had one less men as Cenk Tosun continues to be taking goal-scoring role at the team. Still, Besiktas rather then building on that didnt use their opportunities as game ended at penalty kicks. With penalty kicks didnt go well, Ankaragucu has got an important win against Istanbul giant.
Prior to game, there wasnt much expectation from Ankaragucu at this game but they have shown strong character and has used its opportunity in great manner with Sowe. Even through it did concede with having an extra men in overall it showed good organised game during whole game.
Besiktas unstable performance within games continues to be issues and it looks like it would bring some unwanted and planned results in rest of the season unless they found solution to this.
Trabzonspor gets to knockout stage even through losing at 90th minute
Trabzonspor has got into quarter-final stage at the Turkish Cup game against Umraniyespor with 4:1 scoreline even through it was losing with 1:0 scoreline when 90 minutes were up as equaliser game on last minute of normal time.
It needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor has struggled to get upper hand game of the normal time which been due of rightful performance of Umraniyespor against them and also strong wind which has been taken place at the stadium area and also generally in Istanbul has prevented for both sides to get quality performance. In fact, with wind being reduced when extra time of the game has been started did let for Trabzonspor to get an upper hand. It also needs to be mentioned that Yusuf Yazici which been criticised with his performance at the team after returning from Russia did provide his best performance as he did found 2 goals and also provided strong attacking game. Stating that, Trabzonspor would need to go through why it has struggling for 90 minutes and should not let strong wind during game to blame as opponet also played in same conditions.
Umraniyespor meanwhile has been relegated with such scoreline as 4:1 even through if referee has added a bit less time at quarter-final and should be praised for its game on 90 minutes but in same time it did lose focus and control of the game especially after losing 2nd goal.
Trabzonspor gets to quarter-final but it has been pretty tough for them especially when taking account that it was expected for them to get confident win and need to go through this.
Galatasaray sets an eye for double this season.
Galatasaray has reached into quarter-final stage at very tough win against Alanyaspor at Turkish Cup game with 2:1 scoreline as making big rotation at the team had almost cost them that ticket.
With Galatasaray aiming for double during this season it was pretty surprising for them to make such big rotation against club which tends to provide surprising results against them especially in this tournament in recent years. It needs to be mentioned that starting 11 has not been necessarily bad one but with many players not recieving much playing time in recent games did affect to performance level of the side. It could be mentioned confidently that main reasons for Galatasaray to get such win among good defensive game in 2nd half has been getting result in first half and also great performance of Dries Mertens who have scored great goal and also provided great assist. Galatasaray in whatever way has reached its aim with this result but certainly did get important lessons from this game.
As we are entering into 2nd half of the season, Galatasaray would certainly sets its an eye with strong belief for double in the end of the season but road for sure would become more tougher.
Results:
Turkish Cup, Last 16:
Fatih Karagumruk 2:2 (pen: 3:5) Basaksehirspor
Ankaragucu 1:1 (pen: 4:3) Besiktas
Umraniyespor 1:4 Trabzonspor
Schedule:
Turkish Cup, Last 16:
17:30 Gaziantep - Konyaspor
20:30 Fenerbahce-Rizespor
In other news:
- FatihKaragumruk head coach Andrea Pirlo didnt attend postgame press conference following Turkish Cup game against Basaksehirspor as protest of how penalties shootout were taken
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Manchester City player Ilkay Gundogan.
- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Wolves player Adama Traore
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Elaquim Mangala
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Chelsea player David Datro Fofana
- Burnley has offered 3 million euro to Konyaspor player Amir Hadziahmetovic.
- Antalyaspor are interested to transfer Benfica player Helton Leite.
- Fiorentina has started transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce player Joao Pedro.
- Besiktas has offered 3.2 million euro to Konyaspor for Amir Hadziahmetovic.
- Austria Lustenau has loaned Trabzonspor player Emrehan Gedikli until end of the season.
- Kayserispor player Onur Bulut has declined extension offer from his club.
- Fenerbahce has offered 5.5 million euro + 20% share from next transfer to Parma player Jayden Oosterwolde
- Fenerbahce player Miha Zajc has declined extension offer from his club.
- Konyaspor CEO Mustafa Goksu: We have recieved offer from Besiktas for Amir Hadziahmetovic but offer from Burnley is more suitable to us. We don't want to sell player but we need to take account condition at the club. Similar case is with Endri Cekici.
- Napoli, Fiorentina and Torino are interested to transfer Fatih Karagumruk player Rayyan Baniya.
- Antalyaspor are interested to transfer Maccabi Tel Aviv player Djordje Jovanovic.
- Giresunspor players Alexis Perez and Jorman Campanzano has been selected to Colombian National Team for international friendly against USA.
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