05 February 2024

What happened in Turkish football today? 04/02/2024



Semih Kilicsoy single-handedly brought win to Besiktas against Trabzonspor

Besiktas young wunderkid Semih Kilicsoy continues to be main goalscorer at the team as with help of two goals Besiktas has beaten in very crucial game against Trabzonspor and has rose to 3rd spot at the table.

With title hopes for both clubs going to none due of losing points in recent weeks, main aim for both sides is to end season at 3rd-4th spot and win of Besiktas in such confident manner didnt only rose them at the 3rd place but also would have some positive impact for rest of the season. It needs to be mentioned that both sides didnt provide much creative chances as 1st half has been played only with 1 shot at the goal which has been Semih Kilicsoy and in all fairness coming to an attacking game Besiktas didnt provide much creativity and dominance apart of Kilicsoy and has been possibly not only main reason but only person who had direct impact into game. Therefore, this 2 goals from Kilicsoy would provide confidence and motivation and also has potential to have also similar effect for rest of the team. 

With Semih Kilicsoy finding 2 goals, it could be seen wrongly that Trabzonspor has been providing much worser performance but when looking into how both sides during 90 minutes, it could be mentioned that both sides has shown similar performance and even had some good organisation of attacks but did have lack of quality at final touches and also couldnt overpass opponent goalkeeper Mert Gunok from Trabzonspor shots and hence even through Trabzonspor didnt show significantly good performance, it wasnt much below level of game from Trabzonspor. Still, side is losing now 4 games back-to-back and with also losing 3rd spot at the table could have into confidence of team which needs to be regained fast and should be main priority for Abdullah Avci during training sessions.

Besiktas hence did win an important win with single handedly great attacking performance of Semih Kilicsoy and has provided some confidence for side aim at ending season at 3rd spot.

Fenerbahce got 3 points with detirmation and character.

Fenerbahce continues its winning run as it should with 2:0 win against Antalyaspor following its title rivals Galatasaray also winning on previous day against Samsunspor as both sides dont show any signs of losing.

Fenerbahce it needs to be mentioned didnt provide its best performance as Antalyaspor did provide some organised defensive game and also condition of the field did affect to the game. Stating that, Fenerbahce did win thanks to two great goals from Cengiz Under and Michy Batshuayi which did show among being quality goals is that team is being concentrated into league title and would be aiming to carry on winning in whatever cost even if it shows good or bad performance. As been noted above in this title race it would be not expected anymore for both sides to carry on winning with big goal differences especially taking account with Fenerbahce which has 9 goals advantage over Galatasaray.

Fenerbahce did show concentration and character for this game which led them to get 3 points and it would be expected for them to carry on similar concentration and performance.

Ali Koc has announced that he would not run as CEO candidate in June election.

Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc in pretty unexpected manner during club's general meeting has announced that he would not run as CEO during election which would be taking place in June.

Following his 10-year period as club's CEO, Fenerbahce has only managed to win one Turkish Cup during last season and even through prior to every season has been focussed into winning league title, it didnt manage to win one even through it needs to be stated that he could end his last season as CEO with league title and even more as it going pretty well and impressive in all tournaments. Even through, taking account this season, Fenerbahce didnt have much success he did have some good economical results at come and did manage to get memorable and historical results in other sports branches. It is reported that number of administrators at the club are aiming to keep Koc at this position and time would show if they be able to convince him.

Ali Koc did sound convinced and decided do not run at upcoming election but as been noted administrators will aim to lead him to change his mind.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 24th week:

Pendikspor 2:1 Adana Demirspor

Kasimpasa 2:1 Alanyaspor

Besiktas 2:0 Trabzonspor

In other news:

- Konyaspor has signed Bouly Junior Sambou for 2.5 years.

- Besiktas player Omar Colley has got gribal infection

- Besiktas has started transfer negotiations with Nothingam Forest player Joe Warall who also been present at stadium for Trabzonspor game.
- Galatasaray considers to raise salary of its player Baris Alper Yilmaz to 20 million euro.
- Fluminense has declined transfer offer from Galatasaray for Jhon Arias
- Galatasaray are interested to sign Eyupspor player Caner Erkin.
- Besiktas are interested to sign CSKA Moscow player Sasa Zdjelar.
- Pendikspor are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Veysel Sari.

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