16 March 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 15/03/2023



Basaksehirspor has shown passive performance against Gent in duration of 6 minutes.

Basaksehirspor has been relegated from Europa League against Gent with 5:2 aggregate scoreline as it has conceded goals between 31-37th minute with Orban scoring hat-trick in duration of 4 minutes.

With result from 1st leg in Belgium which has ended with 1:1 scoreline and also knowing potentiality which Basaksehirspor has against Gent, it was expected that side could have shown an effective game but quite opposite has happened as Basaksehirspor has been very passive both until it has conceded goals back-to-back and also after conceding goals has given up both mentally and physically. Basaksehirspor has been at the decline with its performance in recent weeks and this has been continued during this game. Therefore, among losing it was especially dissapointing to see Basaksehirspor to provide such slow and ineffective game for 90 minutes and right now side would need to regain confidence to end season at better note than now.

Gent without doubt did go through during this stage within 6 minutes as it has found 4 goals but this period has been incredible as Orban has shown performance which is being very similar to Erling Halland against RB Leipzig on previous day. Gent did want to go through to quarter-final more and got there.

Basaksehirspor hence has been relegated from Europa League with providing very dissapointin performance but in overall it needs to be mentioned that it did show some good game during whole competition.

Fenerbahce will aim to show great comeback against Sevilla

Fenerbahce would be coming to Europa League last 16 2nd leg game against with an aim to turnaround its tie against Sevilla after losing 1st leg with 2:0 scoreline which is being difficult task but still possible.

Even through Sevilla is without doubt most successful club at the tournament, it is not having very good season which could be seen from its performance at La Liga in recent weeks and also during 1st half against Fenerbahce. Key at this game would be to find 1st goal as soon as possible and both get time on its back for return of the game and also strong support from its supporters at the home ground. It needs to be stated that Fenerbahce did manage to find lots of goals at home ground both domestically and at Europa League group stage so there is some positive look. However, and even through there is no away goal rule it is still important not to concede goal so big role from defenders will play here. In Sevilla perspective, with such unsuccessful performance domestically it would be seeking to show some good game in this tournament and would be aiming to keep its tie advantage.

Fenerbahce without doubt would have tough time against Sevilla at home ground but positive attacking and defensive game could lead them to make historical comeback.

Sivasspor needs to believe that it can beat Fiorentina

Sivasspor would be coming out at home ground game at Conference League last 16 2nd leg game against Fiorentina as it relatively got good result in Italy with 1:0 scoreline but it need to show much more attacking game if it wants to go through.

Sivasspor did provide some positive performance at away game but has been especially poor at the league against Istanbulspor which did provide some worries but in other hand we need to see this 2 games as different ones and unrelated to each other. Sivasspor can provide some good attacking performance when needed but question here if it would be able to go through Fiorentina defence. As been noted, before 1st leg game Sivasspor in all fairness is not in same level as Basaksehirspor and Fiorentina is showing strong performance compare to when it met with Istanbul side, so compare that Fiorentina to that would be wrong. In here key would be to be mentally believing it can turn around tie and show positive performance.

Fiorentina still coming out as favourite but Sivasspor should fight for quarter-final ticket until end during 2nd leg.

Results:

UEFA Conference League, Last 16, 2nd leg:

Basaksehirspor 1:4 Gent (app: 2:5)

Schedule:

UEFA Europa League, Last 16, 2nd leg:

20:45 Fenerbahce - Sevilla(agg: 0:2)

UEFA Conference League, Last 16, 2nd leg:

20:45 Sivasspor - Fiorentina(agg: 0:1)

In other news:

- Galatasaray has announced its debt to be 5,818,247,000 TL.

- AhmetAgaoglu will not run as Trabzonspor CEO candidate.

- Arsenal are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Sacha Boey.

- Galatasaray considers to offer its player Juan Mata to join technical staff in the end of the season.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Chelsea player Denis Zakaria

- Fenerbahce player Serdar Dursun has recieved 15,000 euro fine from his club for criticising ball used by club at social media.

- Fenerbahce player Lincoln Henrique will have an operation

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Serdar Aziz.

- InterMilan are interested to appoint Galatasaray head coach Okan Buruk as head coach.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Cremonese player Cyriel Dessers.

- Internacional CEO Alessandro Barcellos: I can say one thing for sure, today Enner Valencia will not be coming. Football is very active field, things can change after 90 days.


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