What happened in Turkish football today? 28/08/2023

Galatasaray are favourites against Molde despite of tight scoreline after 1st leg.

Galatasaray would be coming out to Champions League play-off round 2nd leg game against Molde as it has small but significant advantage prior to home game as it only focussed right now to get to the competition group stages.

Without doubt, it would be expected to see also fighting performance from Molde as in this stage without doubt every club would only come out with mind of getting to the group stage. Stating that and despite of small advantage at aggregate scoreline, Galatasaray does have significant advantage our opponent. Starting from previous season, Galatasaray supporters has been an important push at the home ground which would be an important advantage without doubt and also this game will not be played at artificial field. In addition, strikers at club has become much more adapted to the team following training sessions and hence would be more creative and also Mauro Icardi would be feeling much more confident on natural grass field.

Molde hence as been noted would be aiming to provide some issues to Galatasaray and can beat their opponents but when looking all factors it could be confidently stated that Istanbul giant is being strong favourite.

Ankaragucu and Fenerbahce will be played at Eryaman Stadium.

TFF has announced that Super League 4th week game between Ankaragucu and Fenerbahce would be played at Ankara side home ground Eryaman Stadium after works of problematic field has been completed.

Hence, Ankaragucu would be coming to its 1st game at its home ground which as it is known has also strong supporting and hence the team would be played at great atmosphere and even through it might not be big advantage from home ground when looking into quality of side, they would not be having a disadvantage of lacking supporters if it has played at Istanbul side. Meanwhile,it needs to praised for Ankaragucu to make sure that stadium would be ready on time.

Hence, such crucial game for both sides would be playing at Ankara home ground which could have positive impact to home ground and generally to game.

Sivasspor signs Modou Barrow

Sivasspor has signed Modou Barrow as it been pretty quiet at transfer front and has signed another African player as it has been focussed into players from that continent in recent years.

As been noted, Sivasspor has been quiet transfer front and signing player who also has potentiality at the team and could be taking an important role at midfielding position he would be accepted to play an important role with his assists and hence bring some creativity into attacks during this season. With having other African players at squad it would be expected for him to have adaptation pretty fast.

Hence, this has been an important transfer for side and he could be taking an important role as midfielder in upcoming season.

Results:

UEFA Champions League, play-off round, 2nd leg:

22:00 Galatasaray - Molde(agg: 3:2)

In other news:

- Arouca has made loan deal with Besiktas player Francisco Montero.

- Hatayspor has signed Faouzi Ghoulam.

- Besiktas player Jackson Muleka agent has stated that transfer negotiations with Al Ahly are taking place and added that transfer PAOK seems to be difficult right now.

- Fenerbahce has offered 12 million euro which includes bonuses to Milan player Rade Krunic.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Ajax player Dany Klaasen.

- TurkishNationalTeam head coach Stefan Kuntz is following performances of Magdeburger player Baris Atik.