Galatasaray has lost its first game of season despite of being in decline in recent weeks.
In all fairness towards Galatasaray, decline of team’s performance has been visible for some time but despite of that it was managing not to lose game but it was still expected for them to lose a game somewhere as it lost at derby game against Besiktas.
Apart of losing a game and also playing with 10 men for most amount of game, it needs to be mentioned that team has provided its worst performance at Super League during this season as it had trouble to get inside the team and also prevent Besiktas creating chances as its own effective players not being to show any strong performance which might bring win to the side as goal did come from incredible shot from Lucas Torreira which has been only positive factor which team has did during whole time. Galatasaray head coach Okan Buruk also performance has been in declining matter as he failed to find solutions for this poor performance and in fact didn’t make changes when game has been called for as he waited too long with some extend being stubborn to system which is not working.
With Galatasaray not playing during next week, it is being on risk of point difference to be dropped with 3 points and despite of having head-to-head advantage its recent performance and this game could provide pressure to them in last 8 games.
Besiktas carries on showing dominant game against big 4 opponents.
Besiktas biggest character during this season is performance against other big 4 clubs especially at home ground and it has repeated its characteristic against Galatasaray as dominated game from start to an end.
Even through this matter wasn’t actively discussed prior to game, it was visible that Besiktas possibly losing its not keeping not losing title record solely which it gained in 1991-92 season has provided strong motivation as it stopped that run of opponent. Besiktas has created high number of chances and didn’t let Galatasaray to show an effective game and hence got well-deserved win.
Besiktas now has set an eye to 3rd spot and without doubt at league it would be aiming to achieve that in next 9 games and this could motivate to show top level game until end of the season.
Trabzonspor does have issues with stamina.
Trabzonspor head coach Fatih Tekke debut at home ground hasn’t been successful as he drawn against Goztepe and still fails to show strong and dominant game as its hopes for European spots is getting less and less.
In all fairness, it would need to be admitted that team did show good performance during 1st half with controlling ball and having attacks with scoring goal after 2 minutes of conceding penalty which without doubt shows good reaction of whole team but it showed serious decline of tempo and creativity and 2nd half which hence does show an issue at stamina as Fatih Tekke would likely work on that in upcoming games.
Trabzonspor did show some signs of improvement but with 9 games left at league it would be unreasonable for them to show such top level game.
Results:
Turkish Super League, 29th week:
20:00 Eyupspor - Basaksehirspor
In other news:
– InterMilan are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ciro Immobile.
- Besiktas would paay more than 1 million euro bonuses for win against Galatasaray.
