25 November 2023

What happened in Turkish football today? 24/11/2023


 

Galatasaray would be coming as favourites against Alanyaspor

Galatasaray would be resuming its Super League campaign following international team break with game against Alanyaspor as it would be coming out as favourite to the game and much more motivated.

Before national team break, Galatasaray did lose its first game during this season against Alanyaspor and also taking account of an important game it has against Manchester United next week at Champions League, it would be seeking to get good win against club which does have pretty struggling season. With Mauro Icardi also being recovered from his injury and likely not  to be playing with needless could lead him to provide much more effective performance as he would be expected to be taking once again leading role on the field and be closest onto goal. Alanyaspor in their part would likely provide defensive focussed game and look for counter-attacks as did Hatayspor with their win.

Galatasaray without doubt are favourites but Alanyaspor with right tactical game could provide some issues to the team.

Arbitration Commitee has reduced fines towards Erden Timur and Ertugrul Dogan.

TFF Arbitration Committee has reduced fine towards Galatasaray administrator Erden Timur and Trabzonspor CEO Ertugrul Dogan regarding comments regarding referees performance.

Arbitration Committee due of going through statements from both administrators has went into reduction of punishment which has been set as 45-days of deprivation of rights and 210,000 TL. With Dogan reduction has been towards 30-days of deprivation of rights and almost 143,000 TL while for Timur it has been even more lighter as it been reduced to 21-days and 100,000 TL fine. Committee likely didnt find those statements too be too direct and agressive to provide maximum amount of punishment as even through some might argue about that. 

Still, punishment has been given even if lighter way and should be sending message to administrators to be more careful with their statements.

Trabzonspor has requested to move kick-off time of game against Sivasspor too earlier hours.

Trabzonspor has send request to TFF to change kick-off time of upcoming away game against Sivasspor from 20:00 to 16:00 of game to be played on 27th November due of difficult weather conditions at Sivas which is being city with cold weather and snow.

With Sivasspor supporting this suggestion, it could be difficult decision as game would be played on Monday and hence would lead for some fans who would be at work not either being able to visit to stadium or watch a game at home, as tv broadcaster might not be also too eager for change of this hours. Saying that, TFF did play games on midweek during working hours and hence it could accept such decision especially taking account of difficult weather conditions which would have some issues towards players health.

TFF would be making decision and even through it doesnt look to be likely, there is possibilty that kick-off time would be moving ahead on the day.

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 13th week:

13:30 Istanbulspor - Hatayspor

16:00 Gaziantep-Ankaragucu

16:00 Konyaspor - Kasimpasa

19:00 Galatasaray-Alanyaspor

In other news:

- Besiktas CEO Serdar Adali has stated that he is having talks with Simao, Guti and Ricardo Quaresma to take role of scouts for club.

- AdanaDemirspor has announced that health condiiton of its player Mario Balotelli is being good after car crash and his resting at home currently.

- Besiktas CEO candidate Serdar Adali: I would not announce project which is financially and generally is not suitable with club.

- Antalyaspor CEO Sinan Boztepe: We want to purchase Saric and aim to extend contract with Helton. We have players which we are interested to transfer to. We working on them.

- Braga are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Miguel Crespo.

- Kasimpasa has opened criminal case against Trabzonspor for not recieving 2nd installments of transfer fee for Eren Elmali and Dogucan Haspolat.


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