What happened in Turkish football today? 26/07/2023

Fenerbahce got confident win against Zimbru

Fenerbahce has got a confident win against Moldavian side with 5:0 scoreline as side has dominated game for 90 minutes while opponent didnt provide much pressure and what has been specifically present for them is that all goals came from different players.

Fenerbahce did come out as strong favourites to the game and it has send that message from 1st minutes of the game and did find goals within first 14 minutes of the game as Ferdi Kadioglu and Ryan Kent did find 2 great goals and has got full control of the game and apart of some few and not very dangerous chances has controlled ball and been around of Zimbru goal. What was important during game that it did look to be highly concentrated towards game and hence did show good control of the game and has controlled of the game. Even through this game could not be reference for rest of the season, it did show some serious number of advantages as it did show good tempo of the game at very hot weather in Istanbul and did come with only thing on mind to win game.

When looking at whole game, it could be confidently stated, as was expected that there is very big difference between sides Zimbru was very far away from their level and it did try to show some resistance during 1st minutes but as it conceded goal on early minutes.

Hence, Fenerbahce got very confident with showing full dominance and now would be coming out for 2nd leg fully due of formality and might possible give chances to some unexpected names. 

Defence has been particularly poor against Zalgiris.

Galatasaray did get dissapointing result against Zalgiris during Champions League 2nd qualifying round with conceding at last minute of the game which prevented to get an upper hand for 2nd leg.

It needs to be mentioned that one of the main reasons for such unexpected result from Lithuanian champions has been due of poor performance of defenders which didnt seem to be highly concentrated and made pretty simple mistakes with Zalgiris using this chances effectively and founding two goals. Without doubt synthetic field at the Zalgiris stadium did provide some difficulties to the side but still it would needed to show much more better performance. Still, with Galatasaray playing at home ground at next week does make favourites to get through next stage.

Galatasaray did show dissapointing performance against Zalgiris but it still has high chances to get wanted resulted in Istanbul next week. 

Besiktas will aim to get confident outcome against KF Tirana

Besiktas would be starting both its 2022-23 season and also its route at Conference League against Albanian side KF Tirana where it would find themselves to be highly favourites.

Besiktas didnt have very good summer transfer window which did provide lots of worry to its supporters and looking slightly uncertainty at upcoming season and hence getting a good will against KF Tirana could at least regain hope and confidence to its supporters but as been noted with other clubs it is important to stay highly focussed for game if it doesnt want to get unwanted surprise.

Besiktas would be expected to get through this stage without much issues but its need to be careful.

Results:

UEFA Champions League, 2nd qualifying round, 1st leg:

Klaksvik 0:0 Hamrun (loser of this tie would be playing against Galatasaray at Europa League 3rd qualifying round if it loses to Zalgiris)

Ludugorets 1:1 Olimpija Ljubjana(winner of this tie would be playing against Galatasaray at Champions League 3rd qualifying if it beats Zalgiris)

UEFA Conference League, 2nd qualifying round, 1st leg:

Fenerbahce 5:0 Zimbru

Schedule:

UEFA Conference League, 2nd qualifying round, 1st leg:

20:30 CFR Cluj-Adana Demirspor

20:30 Differdange-Maribor(winner of this tie would be playing against Fenerbahce at Conference League 3rd qualifying round if it beats Zimbru)

21:00 Besiktas-KF Tirana

21:00 Osijek - Zalaegerszegi (winner of this tie would be playing against Adana Demirspor at Conference League 3rd qualifying round if it beats CFR Cluj)

22:00 Zelejnicar - Neftci Baku (winner of this tie would be playing against Besiktas at Conference League 3rd qualifying round if it beats Neftci Baku)

In other news:

- Sivasspor has won pre-season friendly game against Umraniyespor with 2:0 scoreline

-Trabzonspor has won pre-season friendly game against Triglav Krang with 4:0 scoreline.

- Galatasaray has announced that it made a loss of nearly 952 million TL between 1st June 2022-31st May 2023.

- Besiktas sports director Ceyhun Kazanci has resigned from his post.

- Sivasspor has changed its name to EMSYapiSivasspor due of sponsorship deal

- FatihKaragumruk has signed Marcus Rohden.

- Hatayspor has extended contract with its player Bertug Yildirim.

- Kasimpasa are interested to transfer Altinordu player Ali Emre Yanar.

- Sivasspor has loaned Dinamo Kiev player Gedson Fernandes and transferred Erhan Erenturk for 2-years.

- Istanbulspor has signed Modestas Vorobjovas.

- Fenerbahce has offered 10 million euro to Olympique Marseille player Cengiz Under.

- Besiktas has offered Liverpool player Alex Oxlade Chamberlain for 2 milion euro for 3-years.

- Istanbulspor are interested to transfer Kairat Almaty player Danil Ustimenko

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Arsenal player Jorginho.