21 May 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 20/05/2023



Galatasaray are only 90 minutes away from league title.

Galatasaray is being only 1 win away from winning league title as it got pretty confident win against Sivasspor as was expected with providing dominant game and not allowing Sivasspor to get into game.

Galatasaray did come as strong favourite for the game as it was on great form, are being leaders with league coming to an end, playing at home and also Sivasspor has been in decline in recent weeks. Without doubt, all of this has affected how game been played and in fact how it has started as Galatasaray did provide confident attacking game with looking opportunities and converting goal on 13th minute with Mauro Icardi. Even through between that goal and also second goal from Icardi on 63rd minute, Sivasspor has been staying at the game and did provide some good defence, at how game has been played it was pretty visible that Galatasaray would not be able to lose points. With coming to weeks where losing points would be having some serious circumstances, Galatasaray has shown very strong defensive game which didnt even allow Sivasspor to provide much chances and seriously not single one which could be identified as dangerous ones. In short, Galatasaray are going in confident manner to title as it is being only 90 minutes away from lifting trophy.

Sivasspor on their part didnt come in good form in recent weeks, and only issue which has provided some hope to its opponents has been good performance against big clubs but they didnt show that despite at defence and now team would focus to end season at high note.

Galatasaray hence did get an important at home ground with providing confident performance and now would focus to get win against Ankaragucu and end its title race before derby game.

Besiktas might lose concentration after losing title chances.

With Galatasaray winning Sivasspor, Besiktas has lost all of the chances into league title and now would be seeking to secure foremost 3rd spot and also aim to fight for 2nd spotand hence it still does have aims. 

It needs to be mentioned that Besiktas would be meeting possibly last game during this season, which could provide some issues as it would be playing against one of the most difficult away games against Adana Demirspor as it tends to provide positive game and also aim to possibly fight for 3rd spot to get Conference League spot. It needs to be mentioned that small chances for league title has been providing some motivation boost and did raise concentration and with losing its chances prior to game especially on day after could have some psychological impact to the team as main aims for such teams are always title. This could provide optimism for Adana Demirspor.

It would be interesting hence to see how Besiktas would respond after ending its title chances on the field in such difficult game.

Liverpool interested to sign Orkun Kokcu as Feyenoord awaits 40 million euro offers

Liverpool are reported to be interested to sign Feyenoord player Orkun Kokcu as Dutch title winners has set transfer fee of player as 40 million euro.

It needs to be mentioned that Orkun Kokcu without doubt had very good performance during this season and has played an important role for this title and hence did get lots of interest from different European clubs as he could be one of the most discussed players in upcoming summer transfer players among Turkish players. In fact, improvement of Orkun Kokcu does show by itself into how much player did improve during this season and despite of such high transfer expectations from Dutch side, it needs to be mentioned that clubs like Liverpool and Tottenham would be willing to pay such amount or at least run transfer negotiations.

Orkun Kokcu expected to be among talkative players in upcoming transfer window as mentioned and we would follow all latest developments.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 35th week:

Kasimpasa 1:0 Istanbulspor

Galatasaray 2:0 Sivasspor

Kayserispor 0:4 Alanyaspor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 35th week:

16:00 Umraniyespor - Ankaragucu

19:00 Adana Demirspor - Besiktas

19:00 Antalyaspor - Basaksehirspor

In other news:

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Samsunspor player Yunus Emre Cift.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Strasbourg player Alexander Djiku

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Dnipro player Dovbyk.

- Trabzonspor considers to sell its player Montasser Lahtimi during summer transfer window.

- CrystalPalace player Wilfried Zaha has requested 10 million signing money+5 million euro from Fenerbahce

- Galatasaray considers to sell its player Leo Dubois during summer transfer window.

- CeltaVigo are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Maxi Gomez

- Samsunspor has started transfer negotiations with Maccabi Haifa player Dia Saba.

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