15 October 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 14/10/2023



 Turkish National Team will aim to carry on positive game against Latvia.

Turkish National Team would be coming out to the Euro 2024 qualifying against Latvia where it can secure its spot for proper tournament where it would be taking place if it manages to get win their opponents.

Turkish National Team has opened new chapter in its history with Vincenzo Montella and it needs to be mentioned that this has been very successful as it got pretty confident win with minumum scoreline of 1:0 and now it would be important to carry on such top performance. Unfortuntately, Turkish National Team does have a habit of providing a strong performance against top nations but does lose concentration against weaker opponents and historically and surprisingly Latvia tends to be very problematic side for them. However, among getting good result with strong performance against Croatia with Vincenzo Montella, it has also shown that team has been very concentrated and motivated at the game against Croatia and if it manages to carry on such performance it should be able to get result which it seeks for. Latvia on their part would be coming to game with strong confidence and motivation against Turkey due of win against Armenia in previous week and good performance against Turkey in general.

Turkey did show positive performance against Croatia with Montella as new coach but now it would be seeking to carry on such performance.

Ismail Kartal has been punished from UEFA for starting game later than kick-off time.

Fenerbahce head coach Ismail Kartal has recieved 1-game ban and 25,000 euro fine which has been postponed for upcoming season due of game starting late during Conference League play-off round game against Twente.

As it is known, Turkish Super League tends to be starting delay due of relaxing attitude of federation and referees to kick-off time but this is being much more stricter at European games and hence it has punished from UEFA. This decision might be seen too strict but to some extend this has also been an important message towards Turkish regulators of game as one of the reasons for such strict are complaints from broadcasters and generally from supporters in some occassions. Fenerbahce and also other clubs at Europe would hence now on would need to be careful with kick-off times focussing for it to start at right time.

This could be seen as pretty unusual decision to give ban but as been noted UEFA does pay specific attention to kick-off times at its competitions. 

Hakim Ziyech will not be able to play for 1-week due of injury.

Galatasaray player Hakim Ziyech would not be able to play for 1 week due of injury which means he would be missing two important games of the team as one at Super League against Besiktas derby game and another one against Bayern Munich at Champions League.

As it is known, Ziyech has been send to Moroccan National Team in injury condition hoping from their side that he would be able to come out and play but it became known that injury has been more serious than expected and has been send back to Istanbul for recovery. It is reported for injury not to be too serious and expected to be fully recovered within 1 week period as long there is no  negative developments.

Hence, Hakim Ziyech would recover in short period of time but timing of this has been one of the most crucial weeks for Galatasaray.

Schedule:

UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifying, Group D, 8th week:

21:45 Turkey - Latvia

21:45 Wales-Croatia

In other news:

- FatihKaragumruk worker Yunus Yildiz has passed away. According to Turkish media, during heated argument with brother-in-law, Yildiz has been killed from 8 shots with handgun by latter.

- FatihKaragumruk has won friendly game against Kocaelispor with 2:1 scoreline.

- Basaksehirspor has lost friendly game against Umraniyespor with 2:1 scoreline.

- - TFF CEO Mehmet Buyukeksi has stated that Turkish Super Cup would be played in Saudi Arabia because of positive image as Saudi Arabia has invested a lot to football recently.

- SuperLeague 9th week game between Hatayspor and Kayserispor kickoff has been moved to  27th October at 20:00.

- Besiktas player Eric Bailly has become injured.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Atletico Madrid player Saul Niguez.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Milan player Mattia Caldara.
- Milan are interested to transfer Fenerbahce players Ismail Yuksek and Ferdi Kadioglu.
- Galatasaray player Hakim Ziyech will not be able to play for 2-weeks.
- CrystalPalace are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Bright Osayi Samuel.

- Fenerbahce head coach Ismail Kartal has recieved 1-game ban and 25,000 euro fine which could be postponed to 1-year due of game against Twente starting not on time.

- AdanaDemirspor are reported to terminate contract with its player Amir Feratovic.


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