22 March 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 21/03/2023



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:

- PFDK referalls:

- Konyaspor has been referred to not leaving stairs empty, allowing unexpected supporters,teamwise for 6 players getting yellow cards. 

- Konyaspor trainer Branimir Micovic, Galatasaray and club CEO Dursun Ozbek , Fenerbahce trainer Jorge de Deus for anti-sportmanship behaviour following guidelines.

- Fenerbahce has been referred for behaviour of fans.

- Fenerbahce, its CEO Ali Koc, administrator Burak Kizilcihan, head coach Jorge Jesus, Alanyaspor CEO Hasan Cavusoglu for statements regarding referees.

- TFF Arbitration Committee members Alaadin Varol and Fatih Madenin has resigned from post to run as MP candidates for upcoming Turkish governmental and presidential election. Yavuz Pehlivan and Serdar Karahan has become new members of committee
- TurkishNationalTeam player Eren Elmali has become injured during today's training session.
- Roma are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Sacha Boey
- Fenerbahce player Joshua King will not be able to play for 2-weeks and Jayden Oosterwelde and Enner Valencia will not be able to play for 4-5 weeks.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Olympiakos player James Rodrigues.
- AtleticoMadrid, Sevilla and Villarreal are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Arda Guler.
- InterMilan considers to sell its player Hakan Calhanoglu during summer transfer window.
- SaoPaulo are interested to transfer Fenerbahce players Luan Peres and Gustavo Henrique.

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