25 September 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 24/09/2023



Fenerbahce continues its 100% winning run with minumum win against Alanyaspor

Fenerbahce continues its 100% winning run during this season as it has won Alanyaspor with minumum scoreline at the difficult away game as it was expected and has regained top spot at the table thanks to goal from Irfan Can Kahveci in the end of the 1st half.

Quality of game in some performances for Fenerbahce could be discussed and criticed but one thing is for certain that Istanbul giant are getting into habit and both tactically are playing all each games for a win. It needs to be mentioned that Fenerbahce did have some issues with getting full control of the game especially in the attack but still has prevented Alanyaspor to create high number of the chances. Still, even through tempo of the game could be criticised Fenerbahce has been side to keep ball on its feet and has shown patient football as did Nordsjaelland and using its quality players did find a winning goal on 43rd minute with good organising game and has also created some other chances to get another goal. It also needs to be stated that rotation which Ismail Kartal went through during game against Nordsjaelland did pay an important positive impact in this game as all attackers did looked to be fresh and willing to create chances.

Alanyaspor as been expected did provide some organising game to prevent Fenerbahce to provide comfortable game and get dominant character but it needs to be stated that Alanyaspor does have some issues in attack as it didnt provide too much danger to Dominik Livakovic for most amount of time.

Fenerbahce hence has managed to get 5 out of 5 in the start of the league for 3rd time in its history and doesnt give any chance that it would lose point anytime soon.

Besiktas did get very crucial win against Kayserispor

Besiktas has got an important win against Kayserispor with 2:1 scoreline as conceded goal on start of the 1st half has been a waking up call as it didnt show very dominant and strong goal but afterwards did show game which has been expected from them.

Besiktas did come out to the game with lots fo being under pressure without doubt, as it didnt get score and performance which has been expected from them against Trabzonspor and Club Brugge, which without dout would have provided lots of pressure and it has been felt in 1st half where Besiktas did show an attacking game but did lack certainty of performance and also tempo and it did look like another game which could end up with some issues for Besiktas. In fact, start of the 2nd half hasnt been ideal at  all as Carlos Mane did score a goal from corner where Besiktas defenders did forget about him and he did score simple goal. Stating that, as game has shown that conceded goal has been positive impact to team as it became waking up call for them as they did find 2 goals within 20 minutes after conceding with Aboubakar and Oxlade-Chamberlain,with latter scoring his 1st goal and after that Besiktas did get control of game and did create some more chances.

Kayserispor in fact didnt come out to the game in better form than Besiktas but didnt show it at the field as it tends to be for mediocre side it did focus into defence and counter-attacks. It did score good organising goal from corner but apart that it didnt provide much pressure to Besiktas.

Besiktas hence did win an important game and this result has reduced possibility of having some internal stress and pressure as such win would have positive impact to confidence and motivation, but team still needs to improve a lot.

Galatasaray does have quality advantage compare to almost all teams in league

Galatasaray continues its undefeated run at the Super League as it has beaten this Basaksehirspor with 2:1 scoreline but sign of tiredness has been visible at the team from Copenhagen as it lacked high tempo.

It needs to be mentioned that Galatasaray has an important quality factor as an advantage at Super League, in similar way as does Fenerbahce which helps team to win team withngout actually showing high dominance at the game. Basaksehirspor to some extend has been suitable opponent as it didnt have very good start to the season and even through with new coach Cagdas Atan it did start getting results, it is not showing performance which would been expected from them so Galatasaray with adding quality of the squad did use that advantage. It was important without doubt for Hakim Ziyech to find an opening as he would be expected to be key player in this season at attack among Mauro Icardi. Only negative for Galatasaray has been without doubt been injury of Kazimcan Karatas who is recovery expected to take 2-3 weeks.

Galatasaray possibly are not showing high performance but it does get points which helps team to continue early race for leadership with Fenerbahce.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 6th week:

Ankaragucu 1:1 Konyaspor 

Besiktas 2:1 Kayserispor

Alanyaspor 0:1 Fenerbahce

Kasimpasa 2:1 Adana Demirspor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 6th week:

20:00 Hatayspor- Trabzonspor

In other news:

- Fenerbahce administrator Selahattin Baki: Getting 12 out of 12 wins in start of season is very impressive achievement. We are focussing to talk about football while other administrators focus to referees in first 5 weeks. Saying that, it took time to count our goal.

- Besiktas has announced that due of change of weather and some areas at the field were observed some grass sicknesses. This has affected for football field to be negatively affected.

- Galatasaray has announced that recovery of Kazimcan Karatas has begun.

- Konyaspor player Sokol Cikalleshi will not play for 2-3 weeks due of injury

- Besiktas player Gedson Fernandes will not be able to play for 2-3 weeks due of injury.
- Fenerbahce player Omar Fayed who has been loaned to Novi Pazar still didnt travel to Serbia due of visa issues.
- Fenerbahce has made extension deal with its player Miguel Crespo for 3-years with 2 million euro+500,000 euro bonuses salary and 15 million euro release clause.
- Trabzonspor head coach Nenad Bjelica has stated that team player Nicolas Pepe will resume training sessions next week.

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