19 April 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 18/04/2023



Galatasaray makes another step for league title with confident win against Alanyaspor

Galatasaray continues its confident performsances at the league and has made another step closer for league title as it got confident win against Alanyaspor with 4:1 scoreline especially during 2nd half.

When looking at the form of the sides in recent weeks, Galatasaray did come out as favourite but it did take some time for team to get into game and even through it did look to be side in control, it didnt get dominance on the field until it found goal with Abdulkerim Bardakci header to goal. Still, fast equaliser from Alanyaspor after 2-3 minutes of Bardakci did provide with penalty goal from Efecan Karaca after which game has been balanced. However, key moment of the game has been goal from Mauro Icardi in the end of the 1st half which has set also mood of the game for 2nd half as Galatasaray did also found 3rd goal and has ended motivation and belief at Alanyaspor which led them to complete game after that at tempo as it wanted. Its been confident win for Galatasaray and only negative development it would see is injury of Mauro Icardi.

Alanyaspor on their part did provide some organising performance during 1st half in sense of defence and did try to find some chances especially after 1:1 but it is hard to state that it ever provided much issues to Galatasaray for 90 minutes. Alanyaspor doesnt provide games which could be enough to win and Ersun Yanal would need to find solutions to this.

Galatasaray got another confident win and has made an important step for title as it has 7 games left with 9 points advantage with 1 game at hand with getting confident game without getting much issues.

Fenerbahce will aim to turn comeback against Ankaragucu into confidence boost.

Fenerbahce would be aiming to carry on its title race as it would be meeting with Basaksehirspor as they opponents are having mixture of performance during this period of this season and hence would be seen as favourite.

It should be noted that Fenerbahce did struggle a lot during Ankaragucu game in the league and did provide much pressure onto opponent for 85 minutes but then has shown strong comeback performance showing its fighting spirit. Such games tend to provide positive impact and confidence to the team in upcoming games and hence it could be expected for Fenerbahce to show good and attacking game against Basaksehirspor, while they opponents are failing to get into level of performance which they shown in the start of the season. With opponent possibly could be showing some controlable defence game, Fenerbahce would need to use some creativity in duration of 90 minutes.

Fenerbahce could be seen as favourites as team is motivated during this title race but Basaksehirspor would be focussed to prevent they opponents.

Trabzonspor has appointed Nenad Bjelica for 2.5 years.

Trabzonspor has appointed Nenad Bjelica for 2.5 years hence ending its uncertainty period at the head coach role as it did get good-experienced coach who made his name at Dinamo Zagreb beforehand.

With having difficulty at making deals with coaches which arleady coaching team, as would be expected, Trabzonspor has mainly focussed into free coaches and did make deal with Nenad Bjelica. Even through Bjelica doesnt have much experience at top leagues and in Turkey, he has shown to be good performance with European performance and results at European competition. With contract being 2.5 years, it could be expected that rest of this season would be focussed into getting used and figure out potentiality of the team and plan for next season.

Nenad Bjelica has all reasons to show some good outcomes in upcoming season and would have opportunity to get to know his team and also league closer in rest of the season.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 30th week:

Alanyaspor 1:4 Galatasaray

Fatih Karagumruk 4:2 Umraniyespor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 30th week:

17:00 Istanbulspor - Antalyaspor

17:00 Kayserispor - Kasimpasa

20:30 Basaksehirspor - Fenerbahce

20:30 Konyaspor - Adana Demirspor

In other news:

Fenerbahce has recieved 56,000 TL fine and blockage of stands events on field and behaviour of fans. Meanwhile, administrators Selahattin Baki and Ahmet Ketenci has received 21-days of deprivation rights and 50,000 TL fine for comments about referees.

- Ankaragucu CEO Fatih Koca: When teams like us play against big clubs, we been treated unfairly from referee. We also see pressure towards referees from big club when playing against us. We are being victims.

- Fenerbahce player Altay Bayindir is expected to recover from injury after 4-6 weeks.

- Fenerbahce player Miha Zajc has become injured.

-Giresunspor CEO Nahid Yamak: Our player Perez is currently being injured and will not play for next 4 weeks. We would like to continue with player in the end of season, we will have talks with him.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Chelsea player Ruben Loftus Cheek.
- Ajax are considering to offer 15 million euro to Galatasaray player Kerem Akturkoglu.
- Ajax are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Abdulkerim Omur.
- AtlantaUnited and Los Angeles FC has started transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce player Enner Valencia.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Roma player Bryan Reynolds.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Hibernian player Kevin Nisbet.

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