13 February 2024

What happened in Turkish football today? 12/02/2024



Besiktas continues to show ineffective attacking game.

Besiktas has ended Super League 25th week game against Kayserispor with goalless draw at the game where opponent has created much more chances while Besiktas didnt look to be active and aggressive enough.

Taking account that Besiktas did win back-to-back games and to some extend has also shown some attacking game even if only during 2nd half, it was expected to win against struggling Kayserispor but totally opposite has happened as team didnt provide strong effective performance at attack and to some extend has been side which did win 1 point. Besiktas with Fernando Santos hence does have issues with providing aggresive attacking game  and should be an area which Santos would need to work on in upcoming training sessions.

As been noted, Kayserispor did look to be better side at the field as it did control game much more and has created much more dangerous chances and did show some important improving even through it still looks for win with Burak Yilmaz after 3 weeks.

Besiktas continues to show unstable performance at the field and  hence issues to get full dominance of the game for 90 minutes as in this game it didnt get any chances for whole game.

 Trabzonspor got win at league after long time.

Trabzonspor did manage to win Super League game against Hatayspor after being not very successful performance following recent weeks in the league as possibly win against Genclerbirligi at Turkish Cup provided confidence boost.

It needs to be mentioned that looking from previous games, Trabzonspor did look to be more willing and hungry for goals as it did focus into creating some chances especially during 2nd half as first 45 minutes did end with draw and not much chances. Possibly goal which did come from Trezeguet also provided confidence which team needed as it did find 2nd goal after around 18 minutes. Another positive aspect from this game has been assist from Meunier which has been 2nd assist in 2 games and has shown fast adaptation to game.

In other hand, Hatayspor continues its decline of performance which it shows in recent weeks and didnt show much organised and pressurising game and even through this has been difficult season due of last year earthquake, Volkan Demirel does need to find ways to motivate side.

Trabzonspor hence did get 2 points from Hatayspor and would now look into upcoming games and fight for 4th spot in more optimistic manner.

Fenerbahce losses 2 points at title race.

Fenerbahce did get an unexpected loss of 2 points at home ground against Alanyaspor and hence got behind Galatasaray with same amount of point difference and with this result could have some pressure during last 13 games period.

As been noted beforehand, both Galatasaray and Fenerbahce cant afford to lose points in this title race and hence there is possibility for Fenerbahce to look retrospectivelly especially taking account that team didnt necessarily show its best game as it did lack final touches despite of having high possession of the ball. Despite of poor performance of 1st half, it still did get ahead on short period of time at start of 2nd half even through penalty decision has been questionable but didnt manage to keep its leadership with conceding 2nd goal from Augusto. Seeing this game as sign of seriously downfall from team from one game will not be right even if most Turkish sports outlets treat this game but there must be lessons learned if it wants to win title.

Fenerbahce hence did lose critical 2 points against Alanyaspor and now would feel under pressure in upcoming games but it only just need to congratulate.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 25th week:

Trabzonspor 2:0 Hatayspor

Kayserispor 0:0 Besiktas

Samsunspor 2:0 Antalyaspor

In other news:

TurkishCup draw for quarter-final and semi-final has taken place:

Quarter-final:

1. Besiktas-Konyaspor 

2. Ankaragucu-Fenerbahce

3. Trabzonspor-Basaksehirspor

4. Galatasaray-FatihKaragumruk

Semi-final:

- Winner 1 vs Winner 2

- Winner 3 vs Winner 4

- Galatasaray has signed sponsorship deal with Aroma.
- Ankaragucu has send request to TFF to make it public talks at VAR of game against Konyaspor.
- Galatasaray has set transfer fee of its player Baris Alper Yilmaz as 20 million euro.
- TottenhamHotspur and Bayer Leverkusen are interested to loan Real Madrid player Arda Guler.
- TFF will inspect Eryaman Stadium, Adana Stadium, Rize Stadium, Antalya Stadium, Gaziantep Stadium and Kayseri Stadium.

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