What happened in Turkish football today? 09/05/2024

Trabzonspor has reached to Turkish Cup with confident win against Fatih Karagumruk

Trabzonspor has qualified to Turkish Cup without having too much issues against Fatih Karagumruk as it got through with 7:2 aggregate scoreline and getting confident 4:0 win at Istanbul Ataturk Olympic Stadium.

It needs to be mentioned that it did take time for Trabzonspor to provide strong and dominant game as both sides has been ineffective during 1st half and didnt get single shot at the goal which could be related to the stadium where supporters are located from from field and also some wind issues which is stadium is known for. However, when Paul Onuachu did find an opening goal on 54th minute things did go as planned for Trabzonspor as it started showing dominant game and has scored 3 more goals. With getting into final, it has made an important step for winning Turkish Cup which is being their main priority for weeks now and it would be meeting with Besiktas which has also set its aim for title later in May or start of June.

Trabzonspor is being favourite for now for 3rd spot but as it is known winning Turkish Cup does provide an advantage at Europa League qualifiers so it could be taking this into priority.

Fatih Karagumruk didnt provide much fighting spirit for Turkish Cup final.

Fatih Karagumruk meanwhile did provide pretty poor performance at home ground as it didnt provide any resistance to opponents and has provided in fact much better performance in away game where it ended with 3:2 scoreline.

When comparing of both sides during 1st half of this game, it could be argued that Fatih Karagumruk has been better side but statistically it didnt provide much as it didnt have also signle shot at goal as opponents and hence poor performance of Trabzonspor did make illusion that it showed good performance. As soon as it has conceded, Fatih Karagumruk has been demotivated even more and reduced performance which has been taken less and less after its conceding goal. Fatih Karagumruk did come for win for sure but it didnt show how much it wanted on the field as opponent got an easy win.

Fatih Karagumruk did provide poor performance and would now would focus for last 3 games in the league as it fights for survival but it needs to provide much better game if it wants to stay at Super League.

Kayserispor has recieved 2 transfer period ban for terminating contract without valuable reason.

Kayserispor has once again has recieved transfer ban this time for 2 periods from FIFA, as it terminated contract with any valuable reason with its 4 players during this season.

Kayserispor has been one of the most controversial teams regarding of getting transfer bans and this time it has recieved following complaints from 4 players for getting contracts terminated without strong reason and with FIFA finding themselves to be wrong in following action. Kayserispor has announced that it has send complaint to FIFA regarding for decision asking for decision to be lifted as it did several times beforehand and it would be interesting to see how FIFA would respond right now but there might not have much optimism for this.

As always, our blog would follow all developments regarding if FIFA would be lifting ban or not for Kayserispor.

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:

- Ankaragucu has recieved 462,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans and not following guidelines.

- Besiktas, Kayserispor, Galatasaray, Gaziantep Hatayspor for events on field.

- Samsunspor has recieved 168,000 TL fine for events on field.

- Trabzonspor has recieved 668,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans and events on field

- Antalyaspor head coach Sergen Yalcin has recieved 200,000 TL fine for statements about referees.

- Antalyaspor player Alexander van der Streek has recieved 2-game ban for serious foul.

- Konyaspor has recieved 237,000 TL fine for events on field, accepting unallowed fans and not stairs empty.

- Fenerbahce has recieved 1,072,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans, events on field and statements about referee.

- Fenerbahce head coach Ali Koc has recieved 520,000 TL fine and 60-days deprivation of rights for statements about referee

- PFDK referalls:

- Besiktas has been referred for events on the field.

- FatihKaragumruk has been referred for not following guidelines.

- Trabzonspor has been referred for behaviour of fans and events on field.

- Besiktas player Racchid Ghezzal and Milot Rashica has become injured.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Umut Nayir.

- Besiktas players has recieved 7 million euro bonuses for reaching Turkish Cup final.

- Galatasaray has started transfer negotiations with Roma player Paulo Dybala.

- Sivasspor head coach Bulent Uygun has stated that 2-3 clubs are interested to transfer its player ReyManaj.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Rennes player Bertug Yilmaz