19 February 2024

What happened in Turkish football today? 18/02/2024



 Galatasaray has turned difficult game against Ankaragucu in easy game with early goals

Galatasaray has got pretty an easy win against Ankaragucu as it has ended tie within 30 minutes of the game with finding 3 goals and did manage to turn around a difficult game into an easy one.

With having pretty intense title race with Fenerbahce, playing tough game 3-days ago against Sparta Prague at Europa League, playing against organised team at not perfect field has rose expectation that Galatasaray would be having some difficult game at the field. However, Galatasaray did get good start of the game with getting full control of the game as it has dominated game especially after 1st goal and has played as it was expected with Ankaragucu didnt provide any responses and has looked pretty disorganised. Galatasaray most importantly did succeed its tasks with finding with early goals which it is doing in last 3 games which hence led for side to get an easy wins against what has was expecting to be tough games in this title race road.

Ankaragucu on theri part didnt provide much pressure to Galatasaray apart of scoring disallowed goal before 1st goal of opponent but apart of that it did look disorganised and didnt respond much to Galatasaray quality game.

This has been one of the most difficult games in this period due of factors which are been mentioned above but Galatasaray did overpass without much issues and did overpass important mark at title race.

Trabzonspor got crucial win against Pendikspor 

Trabzonspor has got crucial win for the fight for European spots after beating Pendikspor with goals coming during last 15 minutes with help of Trezeguet and Enis Destan and hence has got 2nd win back-to-back.

It has been important for Trabzonspor to get positive results in this game as it did go through unstable performance with providing not very effective game in recent weeks and hence to get back-to-back wins could provide needed confidence and motivation for upcoming weeks in the season. It still could be noted that team didnt provide necessarily very good performance especially during 1st half as it had issues to get full control of the game. It needs to be mentioned that team did improve as 2nd half has been progressed and did find 2 goals in duration of 5 minutes between 75-80 minutes with raising tempo and aggresiveness which been key for this win.

Pendikspor on their part did provide some good performance in 1st half as it aimed to prevent Trabzonspor to get control of the game but didnt provide good response when Trabzonspor raised tempo. Still, Pendikspor did provide some good performance in recent weeks and hence  this loss shouldnt affect much to morale.

Trabzonspor did get an important confidence and motivational boost with back-to-back wins and would now focus to carry on with improving performance for rest of the season.

Ismail Kartal recognised his tactical mistakes and has turned game entirely in half-time

Fenerbahce has managed to get very important win against Rizespor due of crucial changes which Ismail Kartal has made during half-time at the game which been played at difficult conditions.

With Rizespor stadium being one of the stadiums with very poor field condition to which heavy rain which took place whole day has made conditions of the game as field has sucked all of the water and has led many areas to be with full of mud. Fenerbahce head coach Ismail Kartal did come out to the game with starting 11 with game plan and players which couldnt fill comfortable in such condition and that has transformed into very poor game and also getting to half-time behind. However, Kartal with analysing both field condition and also capabilities of his entire squad has made 3 crucial substitutes who had direct impact into goal scoreline. Meanwhile, different chapter needs to be opened for Serdar Dursun who has found goal after 2 minutes after entering as he did return to team as this goal for sure has been turning point of whole game.

Fenerbahce hence did get an important win as we enter to final weeks of the league and this performance at 2nd half has been important confidence boost for the team.

Schedule

Turkish Super League, 26th week:

Alanyaspor 3:3 Adana Demirspor

Gaziantep 1:1 Samsunspor

Pendikspor 0:2 Trabzonspor

Ankaragucu 0:3 Galatasaray

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 26th week:

20:00 Basaksehirspor - Kayserispor

20:00 Besiktas - Konyaspor

In other news:

- Basaksehirspor has signed partnership deal with City Group.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Copenhagen player Elias Achouri, Lech Poznan player Kristoffer Velde

- Galatasaray has offered 1.5 million euro and 1+1 year extension contract to  its player Fernando Muslera but player requests 2.2 million euro and 2+1 year contract.


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