08 May 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 07/05/2023



Fenerbahce continues losing crucial points at title race.

Fenerbahce are continuing to losing points in such crucial weeks as it has drawn against Giresunspor which are fighting to stay at the league as Istanbul side didnt provide an effective attacking and defensive game.

Fenerbahce has failed to get an upper hand during this game for 90 minutes as most part of the  1st half did play with providing control and possession of the game but it needs to be stated that tempo has been pretty low and the goal did come from penalty due of opponent hand ball. As Fenerbahce continued to provide low tempo and unaffective performance at the field, Giresunspor has shown much more attacking game and did create some good possession and it has entered to half-time thanks to the goal from Irfan Can Egribat. Fenerbahce has continued showing an ineffective performance during 2nd half as it did provide not much creativity and Giresunspor more or less knew how to defend and both create chances. Without downgrading, Giresunspor ability to make draw against side which are fighting for title, it needs to be mentioned that main fault for losing this 2 points has been Fenerbahce players which didnt show any willingness to defend leadership and find winning goal apart after conceding.

Giresunspor did come out for at least point and even through it did provide too much defensive game which led for penalty moments but it did show some good attacking when it did see its opportunities and could even scored more goals.

Fenerbahce hence are providing not very strong attacking game in recent weeks and continues to lose important points for title as league is coming into its end. 

Besiktas hopes for title stays alive after Antalyaspor win.

Besiktas continues its vague chances for title as it has won an away game against Antalyaspor with 3:1 scoreline with both coming from behind and finding goal in 2nd half, hence reminding scenario of recent games at the league.

Besiktas chances for league title are being on knife edge as it needs to win all games and waiting for loss of points both from Galatasaray and Fenerbahce and it needs to be mentioned that club is focussed to win all games and reach 80 points and wait for other results. Coming to this game, Besiktas didnt have good start of the game as it looked pretty passive during 1st half and has allowed Antalyaspor to get an upper hand which it did as it shown some good chances and did found goal from set-piece and could even find more. But with Besiktas adding on 2nd half and especially after 1st goal, Besiktas started dominated game with finding 2 more goals and didnt allow Antalyaspor to do much in this period.

With chances for title are being low in such scenarios means that Besiktas are not being at very high pressure which allows them to provide positive performance even through only in 2nd halves.

Galatasaray will have a tough Basaksehirspor barried for league title.

Galatasaray would be coming to one of the toughest games in its title race as point difference with Fenerbahce has been reduced to 3 points and with side being on decline as it did lose 5 points and conceded 6 goals in last 2 games.

Even through Galatasaray keep sending messages that its being main favourite for title and would continue winning games, its performance in recent games does provide seperate image as it did lose points against Fatih Karagumruk and Besiktas and it would be playing against side which did get win against them at Turkish Cup and still would like to provide revenge for 7:1 loss at 1st half this time at the league. Basaksehirspor has always been side which did perform well against big 4 teams and coming out against league leaders without doubt would provide even more confidence and motivation for this games as side always aims for 4th spot in the end of the season.

Without doubt Galatasaray would be seen as favourite but coming to recent form and also level of opponent does provide that Galatasaray would not have specifically easy game.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

Umraniyespor 4:1 Sivasspor

Konyaspor 2:2 Kayserispor

Giresunspor 1:1 Fenerbahce

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 33rd week:

20:00 Galatasaray - Basaksehirspor

20:00 Trabzonspor- Ankaragucu 

In other news:

- Galatasaray player Kaan Ayhan considers to leave team during summer transfer window.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Southampton player Paul Onuachu.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Sporting Lisbon player Hector Bellerin.

- Roma are interested to transfer Besiktas player Gedson Fernandes


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