24 August 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 23/08/2023



Galatasaray got advantage against Molde at tough game

Galatasaray has got an important away game against Norwegian side Molde at pretty strong fought game as both sides has provided pretty top performance as there were moments when Istanbul giant did struggle but winning goal from Norwegian player Midjtso has led side to win game.

It needs to be mentioned that game didnt start in a manner which Galatasaray did seek for as among conceding goal on 8th minute from Ellingen it also didnt provide any control of the game and also tempo as Molde did provide good attacking game. Meanwhile, looking at 90 minutes it could be sadly stated that Galatasaray defence has continued showing ineffective performance not only at conceded goal but also in generally as Victor Nelsson performance continued to go down. Quite opposite however could be stated as it could be seen from goals coming especially Mertens and Icardi once again showing how much both players understand each other on the field. However, as been noted there were times when Galatasaray did lose tempo and control game and has led Molde to keep ball and hence create chances and find 2 goals.

Molde meanwhile did provide pretty confident and positive football with creating chances and has provided much better performance than has been expected from football supporters and to some extend has been unlucky to get such result and did show signs that it could provide issues towards Galatasaray in 2nd leg.

Galatasaray hence did get an important win at away game against Molde and got tough and struggling performance.

Fenerbahce will have tough game against Twente.

Fenerbahce will be meeting with Dutch well-known side Twente as last stage to the Conference League as it would be aiming to continue its strong performance it showed in the start of the season and get result it seeks for.

It needs to be mentioned that both Fenerbahce and Twente are being side which are at least being on level of Europa League and hence not getting to group stage of Conference League would  be seen as failure for both sides and this could have its impact towards game. Even through level of sides are not very far from each other, it does need to be mentioned that during this squad of Fenerbahce is being much more stronger to Twente and have players which can get goals when needed. Fenerbahce are being favourites on this game but it would not be necessarily be an easy game for them and they need to stay focussed for 90 minutes.

Fenerbahce hence are favourites but Twente would give some issues to which Fenerbahce defence will need to be careful during game.

Besiktas needs to be aware of issues which could come from Dynamo Kyiv

Besiktas will be coming out to Conference League play-off round, last stage until group stage as it would be playing against Ukrainian side Dynamo Kyiv against who Turkish clubs did play multiple times with getting generally unwanted results.

Foremost, it needs to be stated that as all Ukrainian clubs it did affect negatively due of ongoing Russian invasion to Ukrainian soil but it still being dangerous team as it does have potential players in its squad and also strong motivation which is coming from patriotism due of situation in the country.Hence, Besiktas would need to stay focussed especially it does provide some worries with its performance especially when losing 2 points to Pendikspor in last league game. Besiktas need to provide strong and effective performance to get positive results. 

Dynamo Kyiv as mentioned tends to be problematic side for them and team would need to find solutions to get win in such crucial game in Bucharest. 

Results:

UEFA Champions League, play-off round, 1st leg:

Molde 2:3 Galatasaray

Schedule:

UEFA Europa League, play-off round, 1st leg:

20:00 Dynamo Kyiv-Besiktas

20:00 Fenerbahce-Twente

21:00 Genk-Adana Demirspor

In other news:

- Basaksehirspor has extended sponsorship contract with YKT Filo.

- Inegolspor has loaned Fenerbahce players Erkan Arda Cagdas and Yusuf Kocaturk for 1-year.

-Kasimpasa has signed Dries Saddiki.

- CorumFK has signed Besiktas player Kerem Kalafat.

- Gaziantep has signed sponsorship deal with GKN Kargo.

-  Konyaspor has appointed Huseyin Bilgin as club's ideal manager.

- Galatasaray has released Tite player licence has been released

- Galatasaray has announced 1 million euro bonus to player if their manage to get to group stage of Champions League.

- RealMadrid player Arda Guler is expected to recover from injury in 1 month time.

- Istanbulspor has made transfer deal with Simon Deli for 1-year


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