19 March 2024

What happened in Turkish football today? 18/03/2024



Trabzonspor fans overshadowed game against Fenerbahce.

Unfortunately, highly-anticipaged game between Trabzonspor and Fenerbahce has been overshadowed from hooliganistic actions from home fans with events which took place mainly in 2nd half and rose to highest at the end of the game.

It was clear from start of the game that Trabzonspor supporters were not intenting for game to be played in peaceful manner and providing some harm towards Fenerbahce players as it keep through plastic glasses of water which some of them getting to players and also head coach Ismail Kartal and also been thrown while Dominik Livakovic was going through medical checkup. Even following game where Trabzonspor supporters has entered to field to prevent Fenerbahce players to celebrate win has led for an attack from fans to players and self-defence from players. Hence, this has been new intervention from Trabzonspor fans towards Fenerbahce players which been taken place for ages.

It needs to be stated that Fenerbahce actions were self-defence and it would be interesting to see if PFDK would take this into account when making decisions. 

Fenerbahce got an important win apart of hooligans aiming to prevent it.

Coming to game, it needs to be mentioned that it was pretty exciting and high tempo game where both teams did aim to win game for their own reasons regardless how much hooligans has aimed to prevent for game to be ended in peaceful manner.

Fenerbahce did provide pretty strong and confident performance during 1st half as it did control game and it did find 2 goals and didnt provide much chances to opponents however as Trabzonspor supporters started to provide hooliganstic actions especially in 2nd half, team did been affected and led Trabzonspor to get back but still Michy Batshuayi did find a winning goal towards end of the game. It needs to be mentioned that due of hooliganstic events, Fenerbahce still managed to get win which does show how team is focussed to get title and this should be praised as team without doubt would fight for title until last whistle in the league.

Fenerbahce are showing strong character and expected to be doing so until season would be over in such exciting title race with Galatasaray.

Galatasaray won with concentration not performance.

Galatasaray did get a crucial win against Kasimpasa with 3:2 scoreline at one of the most exciting games of the season but it does need to be mentioned that it did win with detirmantion and finding spirit among also Kasimpasa being left with 1 man less at game.

It is hard to state that Galatasaray did provide top level performance on the field especially during 1st half as Kasimpasa did have more control of the game and did look like it wanted to get win at the last minute. It could be stated that Kasimpasa has been side to lose 2 points in fact.Still, Galatasaray winning spirit and concentration among level of quality at the team, which has been decider for this for long time, has played crucial role for winning this game and without doubt team got motivational boost for rest of the season. Also, it needs to be mentioned that Mauro Icardi has been best player in the field with finding goals when it needed most despite of not converting penalty.

This win hence would provide motivation and confidence boost to the team and it did show that it capable to push until last minute even when gamewise it has some issues.

In other news:

- Turkish home minister Ali Yerlkaya has announced that 12 suspects were taken into custody following events at Trabzonspor and Fenerbahce game

- TurkishNationalTeam players Ferdi Kadioglu and Cengiz Under has been taken out of squad due of injury and been replaced with Ridvan Yilmaz and Oguz Aydin.

- ClubsUnion CEO Ali Koc has announced that he has resigned from his post.

- Besiktas has frozen extension negotiations with its players Cenk Tosun and Salih Ucan.
- Benfica head coach Roger Schmidt: Orkun Kokcu couldnt be in squad after giving such interview. I didnt have opportunity to talk to him, I would talk to him after national team break. He is great player and we need him at team. I dont understand why he made such statements.
- Fenerbahce will offer 4-year extension contract to its player Bright Osayi Samuel
- Tottenham Hotspur are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Ferdi Kadioglu.

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