13 November 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 12/11/2023



Fenerbahce get 1 point at one of most difficult away games in league.

Fenerbahce got 1 point against Adana Demirspor during Super League 12th week with goalless result but it needs to be mentioned that side did provide an improvement of the performance in 1st half which does provide some satisfaction.

Fenerbahce has provided much stronger willingness at one of the most toughest away games as oponent didnt lose game during this season as it has been looking for chances and creating them for most amount of the game. It needs to be stated that with Fenerbahce starting game in pretty effective manner as it has been used in previous weeks but with some of last passes and also condition of the field which without doubt did affect. There was a bit of  decline of performance during 2nd half which could be tiredness from previous games. Another aspect, which needs to be noticed that despite of defensive being most negatively affected, Samet Akaydin and Jayden Oosterwolde did provide very good performance and didnt let Adana Demirspor to create many chances.

Adana Demirspor in their part didnt provide its usual home performance which been partly due of good defensive performance of Fenerbahce defenders and also side being on decline of performance during previous weeks. Now it would be an opporutnity for Adana Demirspor to regain some improvement at performance which been declined in recent weeks.

Tired scheduling and generally defensive issue did have an effect and hence this break would help Ismail Kartal to let side to rest until league resumes and also identify weak points which were arose in recent weeks. 

Riza Calimbay starts his reign at Besiktas with win.

Besiktas wins its home ground game against Basaksehirspor thanks to the goal from Jackson Muleka on 55th minute as Riza Calimbay starts his reign with his new team after being appointed only 2 days.

It needs to be mentioned that Riza Calimbay did have a positive impact when he did join team but this impact without doubt has been mentally as players did show some willingness to win game but when looking into tactically he didnt provide much changes and in fact he would need to have some time to get into level which Riza Calimbay would be hoping for. In fact, it should be stated that Besiktas didnt provide confident and dominant game as it been played at low tempo especially at 1st half and to some extend Basaksehirspor passive game during whole game did make things easier for Besiktas. Therefore, it is hard to state that Besiktas did provide strong physical game, which was expected due of situation which team as but did overcome psychologically some factors and even through it wasnt clear all the time there was still moments where it was clear Besiktas did come out into win regardless how it would be achieved. 

Basaksehirspor meanwhile did look very passive especially when taking account that Besiktas are being at poor form and Basakehispor which also does show poor performance could be treated game as an opportunity for extra point. Basaksehirspor does look to be having lots things to do in national team break and doesnt provide good view for future.

Besiktas head coach Riza Calimbay hence starts his reign with an important win against Basaksehirspor but it is clear that he would need to do in this national team break to raise quality of team.

Galatasaray lost to Hatayspor as players has been tired from Bayern Munich players.

Following loss from Fenerbahce on previous week against Trabzonspor, Galatasaray has ended with its undefeated run also as it got loss from Hatayspor as game has been expected to be tough one due of Galatasaray coming from difficult Bayern Munich game.

It is been visible that players during game against Hatayspor has been physically tired especially Mauro Icardi didnt look to be much effective at the attack, only getting one chance which he didnt convert in good manner. This drop of performance among physical tiredness could be also of his ongoing injury as he is playing with needless and did provide lots of pressure to his body. It also needs to be stated that Hatayspor head coach Volkan Demirel did do good studying of opponent and did focus into defensive and counter-attacking game which also didnt allow Galatasaray to play its own game. Galatasaray head coach Okan Buruk meanwhile did play his last games with same squad and while results did come it did look no problematic but in this game this had direct impact as he could play with more fresh players.

Galatasaray did provide good performance and did lose its first 3 points during this season and this game did give some important lessons to Okan Buruk for future games especially with effectiveness of rotation.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 12th week:

Pendikspor 1:0 Samsunspor

Besiktas 1:0 Basaksehirspor

Rizespor 1:0 Istanbulspor

Adana Demirspor 0:0 Fenerbahce

In other news:

- Besiktas player Bakhtior Zaynutdinov got broken nose and on eye area 

- SerdarAdali has announced his candidacy for Besiktas CEO election. He also announced that if he would win election, he would continue with Riza Calimbay as head coach and would appoint Mehmet Ozdilek as sports director.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Chelsea player Conor Gallagher


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