01 May 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 30/04/2023



Besiktas wanted to get 3 points much more than Galatasaray

Besiktas has won one of the most-awaited derbies during this season with 3:1 scoreline at home ground and has dominated game against leaders apart of first 30-35 minutes while Galatasaray has been pretty passive ending game with only shot at the goal during 90 minutes.

It needs to be stated that Besiktas didnt start game at very good form with having low tempo, control of the ball and has led Galatasatay to control game which led an opponent to find goal with Mauro Icardi. However, following Icardi goal and even more after Besiktas has scored its first goal with Saiss, Besiktas has raised tempo and control of the game and did create pretty good performance and has ended into half-time with game being on its own control. Besiktas in fact did raise tempo and dominance of the game during 2nd half with finding 3rd goal with Aboubakar and could have scored even more as Besiktas did provide dominance at the game and could have found even more goals. With such performance Besiktas has reduced point difference to 5 points with one extra time and has some low chance for title. 

Galatasaray did have good start of the game with getting partly control of the game and has shown some good attacking game and has found goal with Mauro Icardi but when at the game in general, Galatasaray did look to be passive and didnt provide much of the fighting spirit which to some extend has been also affected by atmosphere as Besiktas has provided push to its own players and has affected confidence to Galatasaray players. Hence, Galatasaray did provide worst and least focussed performance from derby players and it needs to bounce back in short notice in upcoming weeks as it would be playing with Basaksehirspor next week as it only finds itself only 3 points against Fenerbahce. Meanwhile, Sergio Oliveira mistake has led for Besiktas to find goal which led them go ahead and it would be willing for player to get over such dramatic goal for himself.

When looking overall at title race, it could be stated that main winner of this week has been Fenerbahce as it found itself 3 points behind Galatasaray with 4 games to be played among extra +3 points it would get for free. 

Fenerbahce has regained confidence as we enter to last weeks of the season.

Fenerbahce has done its part at the title race as it has managed to beat Sivasspor at away game with 3:1 scoreline in pretty difficult conditions and has regained confidence and morale as we enter into last stage of the season.

It needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did have some difficulties with one of them being prior to game as club didnt win in this stadium for very long time and have some dramatic games. During game, it had an injury of Enner Valencia and later red card of Irfan Can Kahveci. But with providing strong and effective game in attack and especially at defence let them on field to be looking like an easy win. Without doubt, Sivasspor showing ineffective performance and lacking strong attacking game did make its task much easier. This win would have without doubt a positive impact for upcoming games.

Fenerbahce and Sivasspor would meet again this time at Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg and for sure it would be expected to be different game as Sivasspor would provide more effective performance likely.

Trabzonspor has mentally ended season.

Trabzonspor has lost its 2nd game with Nenad Bjelica as team mentally did end this ongoing season and are planning for upcoming season so it would be expected for them to carry on such manner.

Trabzonspor head coach Nenad Bjelica as been noted is currently going through trial and error period with its players as he is studying condition and willingness of the players and hence this 2 losses and upcoming games could provide some idea into gaming plan of Bjelica but it would be unreasonable to provide any reference into how he is coaching. It also needs to be mentioned that red card of Bakasetas did also have negative impact into how sides performance

Team is waiting for season to be over and upcoming games would be played in such low tempo and unwillingness as players are switched off.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 32nd week:

Besiktas 3:1 Galatasaray

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 32nd week:

20:00 Istanbulspor - Giresunspor

In other news:

- SportingLisbon are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Sacha Boey

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Rotherham player Chiedozie Ogbene

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