19 September 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 18/09/2023



Trabzonspor got confident win against Besiktas.

Trabzonspor without doubt has shown one of its best performances during this season as it got confident win against Besiktas at home ground with providing strong and rightfully tactical game against Istanbul giants.

It could be argued that Besiktas did provide poor performance and this case is being true, but it needs to be mentioned that collective and organising performance both in defence and attack by Trabzonspor did also affect into performance of Besiktas and hence Trabzonspor did show that it wanted to win game much more and did get deserved win in deserved manner. It was also important for Paul Onuachu to score his opening goal in his 1st game and with goal coming from header as this is being reason why he was transferred. As it would be remembered Trabzonspor did have poor start of the season but this game did show that are being in good condition and could be fighting for title for rest of the season if it continues and improves with its performance in upcoming weeks.

Therefore, Trabzonspor did studied Besiktas very well and did aim to show effective game which did pay off with such calm and confident win for them.

Besiktas has shown worst performance in recent years against Trabzonspor.

Besiktas on other hand did show pretty ineffective performance not being able to get into game and didnt provide much pressure to Trabzonspor into the goal with 1st shot on goal coming as late as 82nd minute.

Usually, Besiktas tended to show an improvement after national team breaks but this time we did see huge decline of performance of what arleady has been in all fairness not very good performance during this season. Without doubt an effective and strong performance from Trabzonspor also has stopped Besiktas to get much into game and it did lose concentration and belief as it conceded goal. This has been so far not only worst performance during this season but in recent seasons and this performance does provide some worrying image prior to Club Brugge game and also generally so it does look like Senol Gunes needs to raise performance level of the team at short notice time.

Besiktas hence is being in serious decline with its performance and it needs to sort out this issues if it doesnt want to lose points in both Europe and domestically for sure.

Fenerbahce still got win apart of poor game against Antalyaspor.

Fenerbahce continues its 100% winning run in all official games as it won against Antalyaspor even through it needs to be stated that team provided poorest performance in whole season especially during 1st half.

It needs to be stated that Fenerbahce did look surprisingly poor during 1st half with making lots of passing mistakes and generally failing to control game which led for Antalyaspor to control and dominate game and Antalyaspor finding an opening goal. Without doubt Edin Dzeko goal in the end of the 1st half and changing room talks in half-time did play role, as Fenerbahce did look much more effective in 2nd half and did manage to provide pressure and with detirmantion and quality of the side did get a winner with Szymanski at 80th minute. It wasnt specifically very good performance from Fenerbahce for 90 minutes but withotu doubt it has been important for them to win with poor performance.

Fenerbahce did get an important game and kept their confidence high for opening game at Conference League against Nordsjaelland.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 5th week:

- TFF has stated that Stefan Kuntz is currently still head coach of Turkish National Team and there would be meeting with him on 20th September.

- UEFA has announced that referee for Champions League game between Kobenhaven and Galatasaray will be Georgi Kabakov.

- Turkish referee Halil Umut Meler will referee Champions League game between Benfica and Salzburg.

- TFF has stopped appointment negotiations with Joachim Low for Turkish National Team head coach position due of high salary requests.
- Galatasaray has signed sponsorship deal with Baskent Insaat.
- Fenerbahce player Cengiz Under has become injured.
- Galatasaray has signed professional contract with its academy player Beknaz Almazbekov until end of the season.
- Pendikspor has announced that an opening of its new stadium Pendik Stadium has been moved from Super League 6th week game against Fatih Karagumruk to 8th week game against Sivasspor due of ongoing working with condition of the field.
- Basaksehirspor has terminated contract with its player Sener Ozbayrak

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