Adana Demirspor has provided impressive performance despite being relegated against Genk on penalty shoot-out
Adana Demirspor has been very close to get to the Conference League proper stage as it did lose at penalties to Genk with 5:4 scoreline despite of winning game 90 minutes of home ground but due of loss at Belgium game went as far as to penalty kicks.
It needs to be mentioned that taking account that Adana Demirspor is being played at its first season at its own history, it has provided confident and strong performance against one of the experienced sides in the Europe and especially at qualification stages. It could be noted that Adana Demirspor didnt provide necessarily strong and confident performance in the 1st half as it did take time for side to get into tempo which it has been needed but things did change during 2nd half as it provided strong performance and Ndiaye has converted side. It needs to be mentioned that Adana Demirspor still showed very good performance and as been noted it has been unlucky on penalty kicks as only player which didnt convert has been Younes Belhanda.
It needs to be stated that playing in Adana did provide some issues to the Genk as their didnt get control of the game which we have seen during 1st leg from them but still it has managed to get some good opportunities and with some good defensive game and has pushed game until penalty kick where it has converted all goals and been lucky for Belhanda not scoring his chance.
Some people might argue if team which didnt get to Conference League proper tournament as successful performance but it needs to be mentioned that side has shown strong and promising against Genk and generally in this qualifying campaign.
Besiktas reaches to group stage at Conference League with beating Dynamo Kyiv at home with minumum scoreline.
Besiktas has managed to get win against Dynamo Kyiv at home ground with minumum scoreline of 1:0 thanks to the goal of Vincent Aboubakar which did celebrate right next to the opponent head coach Mircea Lucescu after his comments regarding of African National Team.
Despite of winning game with minumum scoreline and getting through play-off round with an aggregate scoreline of 4:2, it needs to be stated that Besiktas has been side which did control game and has created opportunities as it used its home ground advantage and also 1 week break did go into its own hand as it did focus entirely to the game. Therefore, it could be stated that Besiktas did come out mentally ready to the game as it been looking for chances but didnt convert chances in 1st half due of organised defence of Dynamo Kyiv and also being unlucky in some positions. It also needs to be mentioned that this fighting spirit has led for Besiktas to have even better start during 2nd half as it provided confident performance and has found a great goal on 52nd minute from Vincent Aboubakar which did clinch win. With Dynamo Kyiv not being as effective as there were in 1st leg, Besiktas has managed to stay calm and control game more or less to keep its 2 goal advantage at aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv as been mentioned didnt provide as strong performance as their did during 1st leg and didnt show much fighting spirit with only positive side performance-wise could be only conceding 1 goal as it did show good defence. Still with taking account that team did come out with young squad, Lucescu could be happy with such positive attitude.
Besiktas did get through Conference League group stage thanks to the goal from Vincent Aboubakar which continues to be taking leading role at attacking level for club and has got through with fairly result for them.
Fenerbahce gets to Conference League group stage at confident manner with minumum win against Twente
Fenerbahce has won an away game against Twente with 1:0 scoreline thanks to the goal from Edin Dzeko from penalty kick but more important Istanbul giant has got through group stage with an aggregate scoreline of 6:1.
Despite of getting win against Twente, it could be mentioned that Fenerbahce didnt necessarily provide dominant game and organising game but this could be highly understandable as it did come to the game with 5:1 scoreline and didnt concede a single goal especially on 1st minutes of the game against opponent which needed urgently to find goals if it wanted to have chance for next round. It also needs to be mentioned that both sides did provide pretty strong physical game and looked ot be aggressive which led for some yellow cards from Fenerbahce which would be transforming to group stages of Conference League and hence could provide some issues. Still,probably main reason why this game didnt provide much pressure and needless excitement at Fenerbahce front is to stay calm and provide simple game for 90 minutes and that taking account that it didnt provide very good performance attack.
Twente did come to the game seeking to show miracle comeback but rather than providing an attacking game it has decided to provide much aggressive game which also has affected into mentality of Fenerbahce players. It needs to be mentioned that this aggressive game could be due of emotional impact of 1st leg game.
Fenerbahce hence did get through to group stage of Conference League without much issues both against Twente and also in other qualifying stages and did send for sure strong message for this tournament proper stages.
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