What happened in Turkish football today? 08/08/2024

Trabzonspor has lost to Rapid Wien at home ground.

Trabzonspor has lost to Austria side Rapid Wien at home ground with 1:0 scoreline at home ground after conceding goal from Lukas Grgic as Trabzonspor has continued to show an ineffective performance at home ground once again.

It needs to be mentioned that despite of getting through Ruzemberog at home ground, Trabzonspor has continued to show an ineffective performance at home ground and has led many chances to Rapid Wien as Ugurcan Cakir has made 3 saves during game and did keep chances alive for next round. Rapid Wien despite of finding only one goal has been side which did look to be closer at goal and did create lots of opportunities and chances. Therefore, it does look from all games so far at Europa League that Trabzonspor does have a defensive issue and it cant rely too much into attacking players who didnt find many chances tonight in each manner. Trabzonspor does need to improve a lot for 2nd leg and start of the season and focus especially to defence.

Rapid Wien despite of only finding one goal has been better side all round and could easily find more goals if it wasnt for Trabzonspor goalkepeer Ugurcan Cakir and hence did get an important advantage at home ground.

Trabzonspor hence once again has shown ineffective performance and would especially need to focus to defensive game in for upcoming days without doubt.

Basaksehirspor did get small advantage at the tie against Iberia.

Basaksehirspor has got crucial an away goal against Georgian side Iberia at 87th minute Davidson with great organising game at the game where side did fail to get full control of the game.

Even through Basaksehirspor did get slight advantage over Georgian side at Conference League, it needs to be mentioned that it ended up much more tougher game than it has been expected as Georgian side did provide some good organised game. It needs to be mentioned that it has been pretty uneventful game but few chances which been created has been Basaksehirspor as it did lack having final touches or has failed to overpass opponent defensive game. Therefore, Basaksehirspor didnt really show strong game but it needs to be mentioned that it did get an important advantage at the tie for 2nd leg as it would be playing at home ground.

It needs to be mentioned that Iberia turned out to be much more organised game than it has been expected to be during the game as it show some strong patient game but does lack showing some strong attacking game.

Game hence turned out to be slightly more tougher than Basaksehirspor would have hoped for but still it did get an advantage at the tie.

Title holders will start season against Hatayspor.

Turkish Super League 2024-25 season would be starting with title holders playing against Hatayspor at its home ground and would be aiming to show strong bounce back from unexpected 5:0 loss to Besiktas at Turkish Super Cup.

Galatasaray has stated for some long time that it would be coming out to this season with an aim to defend its title and hence losing to Besikas with 5:0 does provide some questions how much team is being ready. It would be expected for Galatasaray to be aiming to show strong response to such poor results and expected to show some strong attacking game. Coming to Hatayspor it would be aware of result which Galatasaray did get against Besiktas and could see the game as opportunity as Galatasaray did look to be pretty unorganised but still it needs to be careful as Galatasaray would be aiming to show strong response.

Galatasaray would be opening league against Hatayspor with an aim to show that it was just on bad day against Besiktas at Super Cup.

Results:  

 UEFA Europa League, 3rd qualifying round, 1st leg:

Trabzonspor 0:1 Rapid Wien

Partizan 0:1 Lugano (winner of this tie will be playing against Besiktas at Europa League play-off round)

Braga - Servette (winner of this tie will be playing against winners of Trabzonspor-Rapid Wien tie (agg: 0:1) at play-off round

UEFA Conference League, 3rd qualifying round, 1st leg:

Iberia 0:1 Basaksehirspor

St.Patricks 1:0 Sabah Baku(winner of this tie will be playing against winners of Basaksehirspor-Iberia(agg: 1:0) tie at play-off round

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 1st week:

21:00 Galatasaray-Hatayspor

In other news:

- Sivasspor has changed name to Net Global Sivasspor

- Trabzonspor has transferred Zorya Luhansk player Arseniy Batagov for 2.3 million euro+500 euro bonus until 2028

- Besiktas has released licence of newly signed player Emirhan Topcu.

- Galatasaray has made sponsorship deal for shorts for AHL Pay.

-Gaziantep has signed Bruno Viana

-Konyaspor has signed Danijil Aleksic for 2+1 years

- Kayserispor has extended contract with its player Kartal Kayra Yilmaz.

- Sivasspor has extended contract with Samba Camara for 1-year and loaned Noah Sonko Sundberg with transfer option.

- Basaksehirspor has appointed academy and youth development responsible Marco Federico Pezzaioli from Galatasaray

- Goztepe player Kuryu Matzuki has become injured.

- Fenerbahce has signed sponsorship deal with Kigili

- Fenerbahce considers to end contract with its player Cagatay Kurukalip.

- Besiktas player Alex Oxlade Chamberlain requests to get paid 6 million euro of his 2-year salary if contract would be terminated.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Chelsea player Diego Moreira and Renato Veiga.

- Galatasaray has set transfer fee of its player Abdulkerim Bardakci as 15 million euro.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Fluminense player Andre.

- Sivasspor has made principal deal with Lugodorets player Sonko Sandberg.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Olympique Lyon player Nemanja Matic.

- Galatasaray has recieved 112,000 TL fine and Besiktas recieved 280,000 TL fine for events on the field.