21 March 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 20/03/2023



Fenerbahce got an important win against Alanyaspor despite of referee performance.

Fenerbahce has got an important win without doubt at Alanyaspor and hence has reduced point difference with Galatasaray to 6 points with game at hand but once again game has been dominated more with referee decisions than of players.

It needs to be stated that most amount of the game, especially during 1st half, both sides didnt provide very tempo performance as Fenerbahce did struggle into getting full control of the game while Alanyaspor after scoring an early goal has shown anti-football game. Coming to the referee performance, referee Mete Kalkavan has shown very poor performance making mistakes at both sides and hence has created among tension during game but following game as both sides has shown unhappiness towards referee performance. Without doubt, referee due of questionable decisions at 1st half has raised tension among players which had negative impact of game. Still, Fenerbahce did manage to get a win with poor performance and also referee affecting game and does provide more pressure to Galatasaray after this week for sure.

Fenerbahce did get tough period as most players were not at best level but at this time most important thing was win and they got that.

Fenerbahce has extended contract with Altay Bayindir for 4-years.

Fenerbahce has officially signed extended contract of its player Altay Bayindir as he did provide some key performance in recent years and also get frequent support from head coach Jorge Jesus.

Even through Bayindir as every player did provide some moments poor decision and performance, as one of his weaknesses tend to be getting too far from goal during opponent attacks, he still generally played an important role for successful results and also being one of the main title contenders in this season. With unsurprisingly lots of interests towards him for transfer, Fenerbahce at least got a chance to get good value of him if one of the clubs would be able to make transfer deal with him and club. 

Altay Bayindir without doubt would play an important role in the club and has strong potential to develop into much better goalkeeper without doubt.

Turkey would be aiming to get to Euro2024

Turkish National Team has started preparation for its new chapter as Euro2024 qualifiers campaign will start for a team with Armenia on 23rd March and would continue against Croatia on 27th.

Without doubt tournament which would be taking place in Germany would provide an additional motivation and focus for team coach Stefan Kuntz as he has stated himself during today press conference. Turkey does have quality to get through this qualification as main opponent would be for them Croatia and Wales. Croatia games would play an important role in its route at this qualifying round and hence it should be seeking for best results. Turkey does have qualuty squad but they need to give full focus to field to get good results.

Turkey would be starting this campaign with lots of aims and hopes and it would be important for them to start at high note against Armenia and later Croatia.

In other news:

- TurkishNationalTeam had 1st training session for Euro 2024 qualifiers against Armenia and Croatia.

- - BayernMunich has appointed Turkish National Team goalkeeper coach Michael Rechner to same position

- Trabzonspor player Dorukhan Tokoz has resumed training sessions at Turkish National Team training camp. He would attend to training sessions in this period.

- CentralRefereeCommittee CEO Lale Orta: I didnt provide pressure to anyone. It doesn't fit my character. I am more into communication between sides. We aim to run referee committee open and clear. Broadcast showed Donk and Zaniolo from far camera. I was for close cam. But there wasnt manipulation at all

- - Istanbulspor players Valon Ethemi has been selected to Macedonia and Florian Loshaj to Kosovo.

- Konyaspor player Ibrahim Sehic has been selected to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Endri Cekici to Albania, Francisco Calvo to Costa Rica, Bruno Paz to Angola, Mahir Emreli to Azerbaijan and Andreas Bouchalakis to Greece.

- Fenerbahce players JoshuaKing, Enner Valencia and Jayden Oosterwelde has become injured during Alanyaspor game.

- German investment company has offered to buy 40% share of Basaksehirspor.

- Sivasspor has given 5-days break to its players and would resume training sessions on 25th March.

- Galatasaray player Yusuf Demir considers to leave team during summer transfer window.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Sevilla player Erik Lamela 

- OlympiqueMarseille are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Arda Guler.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Juventus player Moise Kean.



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