What happened in Turkish football today? 28/02/2024

Trabzonspor reached to semi-final thanks to goal from Visca.

Trabzonspor has qualified to Turkish Cup semi-final after beating Basaksehirspor with single goal from Edin Visca with dominating whole game but to some extend did have an issue with converting chances.

As it is known, with Trabzonspor losing chances for league title, all focus of the team has been given to Turkish Cup and ending season at 3rd spot and it did show how seriously it takes Turkish Cup from start of the game as it has shown dominant attacking game. Even through it did only find one goal thanks to the Edin Visca on 54th minute, Trabzonspor did get numerous chances but couldnt overpass opponent goalkeeper or did have issues with last touches. It needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor is being side which has been improving its performance in recent weeks and this could be seen in this game as it did take whole control and did qualify to semi-final in deserved manner but still needs to work on with shots to goals.

Basaksehirspor meanwhile has been pretty far from its top performance as even through it did have organised defensive game it still hard to state that it did look to be at control and for most amount of game did get control to game to Trabzonspor. Basaksehirspor would now give all focus to Super League as it aims for top 5 positions.

Trabzonspor has been known to be taking Turkish Cup in very serious manner and hence has made an important step for winning this title as it being shortest route to Europe.

Besiktas gets confident win against Konyaspor at Turkish Cup

Besiktas has reached to semi-final of the Turkish Cup after beating Konyaspor with 2:0 scoreline at home ground with providing strong and attacking game as it is taking this tournament very seriously since its lost its chances for title.

It needs to be mentioned that it was expected for Besiktas, in similar manner as Trabzonspor above, to take this tournament very seriously as it is being shortest route to Europe and with taking account form of an opponent, Besiktas did provide strong and organising game and to some extend did slightly raise its dominance game compare to previous two games. With Besiktas showing much more willingness compare to previous games at the league has also led for Besiktas to create lots of chances as game has been progressed and did find an opening goal with Salih Ucan. Still, it could be noted that Besiktas still is not showing level of performance but still this team has been providing much more attacking game. Hence, Besiktas did reach to semi-final in deserved manner where it would be meeting with Ankaragucu.

Konyaspor is going through difficult period even through it did reach to quarter-final which could be seen as good outcome in such season but it couldnt provide much confidence in this game and for upcoming games in all fairness. It did look more willing compare to league games but still wasnt enough.

Besiktas hence continues with its only aim for rest of the season and it did show in such performance that it is aiming to go all the way at the Turkish Cup during this season.

Fenerbahce didnt look like it wanted to get to semi-final of Turkish Cup.

Fenerbahce has provided worst performance since start of this season at the Turkish Cup quarter-final game against Ankaragucu as it lost game to 3:0 scoreline as it did look like team have relegated from competition on purpose.

Coming out to the game as title holders of the competition and also having an aim to win all 4 titles during this season, Fenerbahce did look to be least organised and also didnt provide any reaction after conceding goals as after 2:0 especially it did look as it accepted scoreline. Taking account that even when things didnt go as planned, Fenerbahce did provide full fight for getting win towards end of the games and did get them, it didnt show such reaction and quite opposite even have reduced tempo of the game. It is hard to state for sure that team did come out to be relegated but when looking how it has performed, it didnt want to go to semi-final as much as did Ankaragucu. 

Hence, Fenerbahce didnt show any fighting spirit during game which we saw during this season which led to unsurprising loss taking account how it has played during game.

Results:

Turkish Cup, Quarter-Final:

Trabzonspor 1:0 Basaksehirspor

Besiktas 2:0 Konyaspor

Schedule:

Turkish Cup, Quarter-Final:

20:45 Galatasaray - Fatih Karagumruk

In other news:

- FatihKaragumruk player Ryan Mendes has recieved 2-game ban from PFDK for serious foul.

- Trabzonspor player Mislav Orsic will get additional month for recovery of process and would return to Croatia for recovery.

- Fenerbahce has opened crimincal case against Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek.

- CentralRefereeCommittee VAR responsible Tolga Ozkalfa has resigned from his post with Cem Satman has been appointed in his place.

- TFF administrator Hamit Altintop has convinced Nurnberg player Can Uzun to select Turkish National Team.

- AdanaDemirspor has announced that it would have training session at stadium on 2nd March and will open to all its supporters.

- Trabzonspor has made statement criticising performance of referees.

- Galatasaray considers to sell its player Wilfred Saha during summer transfer window.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Arsenal player Eddie Nketiah.

- Napoli are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Sebastian Szymanski.