What happened in Turkish football today? 20.10.2016

Fenerbahce carries on showing poor performance as season goes on.

Fenerbahce carries on providing very poor performance this season with showing any confidence and high-level football during Europa League Group A 3rd week game against Manchester United, where it has lost with 4:1 scoreline at Old Trafford.

The blame of this result could be thrown into plane incident which happened yesterday and also early two penalties which team recieved between 31st and 33rd minutes, but those would be only excuses. Fenerbahce has played a very slow football and even through it did look like their had control of the game prior to 1st goal, Manchester United themselves has played slowly and patient football. The problem is not for losing against Manchester United, but this performance is not providing good hope for the future both at the Europa League and Super League and it doesnt look like it would in near future as season carries on. Only positive thing of the game, ironically which was good for both sides, was for Robin van Persie to scoring goal which was treated in warm ways by Manchester United fans as he has played few years at the team prior moving to Istanbul club.

Manchester United has shown their superiority over Fenerbahce at this game and that taking account that their didnt play their best football definitely and even playing at 2nd gear has managed to get confident win.

Coming to group stage wise, Fenerbahce still has good chances to qualify with 4 points while being two points behind both Man United and Feyenoord. Taking account that it would play two games at home this is good advantage for them.

Osmanlispor almost got an historical win against Villareal but conceded 2 goals in 2nd half.

Osmanlispor didnt manage to carry on its 2:0 leadership at the Europa League Group L  game against favourites of the group Villareal as he had conceded 2 goals during 2nd half. Despite of that it needs to be stated that it still had provided top football.

Osmanlispor has started the game in very good manner at the 1st half with once again reminding viewers why it had presented a very good performance at the Europa League so far at this season. Rusescu did in fact provided incredible hope to the team while scoring goals back-to-back, however it couldnt provide same performance at the 2nd half as it had conceded 2 goals and also has recieved red card which spoilt whole system a a team.  Osmanlispor did provide great performance despite of the scoreline and carries on its chance to qualify to the next stage of the tournament as it carries on this year competition with 4 points with same points as Zurich and one point behind Villareal, who are currently leaders.

Villareal was surely didnt expect this performance by Osmanlispor at the 1st half but did respond in great manner at the 2nd half and has gained an important for them draw and reminding everyone why its favourtie at the group.

Osmanlispor did in one view lose one point but in other side it gained an important one against strong opponent and this point become key for it to get to the next stage of the Europa League at this season.

Konyaspor has got its first point at the Europa League in its history.

Konyaspor has obtained its first ever point at the Europa League with 1:1 draw against Portuguese side Braga even through it did end 1st half with 1:0 leadership with Milosevic scoring 1st goal of the team at the Europa League at the 9th minute.

Konyaspor did perform better during this game compare to previous games as it has shown much more attacking football and has created number of the chances against Braga. However, even with that it did still provide defensive football and possibly this factor has led them to draw game rather than winning game in more comfortable manner. As been stated, Milosevic goal at the 9th minute has had very signifacant manner as it has scored 1st goal at the Europa League and also still allowed chance for Konyaspor to get 2nd place at the group stage with Shakhtar Donetsk winning all the games but with this performance unfortunately Konyaspor does have low chance to get to the next stage of the tournament.

Braga didnt provide its best football at the game today which led them to end game at the draw and in addition playing in Turkey, where it always been hard for European teams has been also played a role for this game.

Konyaspor as been mentioned has still chance to get to the 2nd half but it needs to play much more aggressive football as been mentioned previous blogs and it would have tough times at the 4th week game against Braga against in Portugal.

Results
Europa League, Group H, 3rd week:
Konyaspor 1:1 Braga
Shakhtar Donetsk 5:0 Gent

Europa League, Group L, 3rd week:
Osmanlispor 2:2 Villareal
Steaua Bucharest 1:1 Zurich

Europa League, Group A,3rd week:
Manchester United 4:1 Fenerbahce
Feyenoord 1:0 Zorya

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 8th week:
19:00 Rizespor - Genclerbirligi
20:00 Gaziantepspor - Kayserispor

In other news: 

- Turkish National Team has fallen from 21st place to 25th place at the FIFA World Ranking for the month of October

- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines/bans, which are as follows: 
- Kayserispor has recieved blockage of section of the field for behaviour of the fans.
- Alanyaspor has recieved 10,500 TL finefor teamwise anti-sportmanship behaviour at game.
- Trabzonspor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for events at the field

- Deportivo La Coruna player Emre Colak has got an award as player for a month by his club:

- Besiktas player Tolgay Arslan injury is been reported to be not too serious. Meanwhile, Oguzhan Ozyakup has resumed training sessions.

- Galatasaray player Wesley Sneijder has recovered from injury and can play against Trabzonspor during Super League 8th week game.

- Mainz05 player Yunus Malli: If all sides will agree, I would like to be transferred to Borussia Dortmund.

- Galatasaray has offered 2-year contract to the Manchester City player Pablo Zabaletta.

- Galatasaray are interested to loan once again Manchester City player Jason Denayer.

What happened in Turkish football today? 19.10.2016

Aboubakar has become hero for Besiktas with two goals scored against Napoli.

Vincent Aboubakar who has been criticised a lot during his recent performance and lack of finding goals has surely become hero for the Besiktas during Champions League Group B game against
Napoli as he have scored two very important goals which brought them a very important win.

Besiktas has provided very good football against favourite team of this group and despite of starting game in not such a great manner with allowing Napoli to control game during first minutes, it has responded incredibly well during 2nd half of the game. In fact, despite of scoring two goals during 1st half those goals has mainly came from counter-attacks, however as the game progressed Besiktas surely start also performing top football and in some moments even play better than Napoli. In fact, this performance is certainly been one of the best for this season and surely has been best for Aboubakar since he has joined the team this summer. It was stated prior to game that this game would be turning point and even last chance for him and he has responded it with great performance wanting to create chance, helping his teammates and most importanly scoring two goals. Aboubakar surely after today, at least until Antalyaspor game on Sunday, has made quite his critics.

Napoli started in great manner even possibly making vision that it would have confident win with back-to-back attacks but goal scored by Adriano has provided sudden shock effect to Italian side. It did fight back during drawing twice and providing Champions League style response but today it wasnt strong enough against Besiktas.

Besiktas has won a very important game today at one of the most hardest away games for this season for them which would identify rest of the season. But even more it does seem to win Vincent Aboubakar for this season.

Fenerbahce need to give their best against Manchester United despite of being tired from plane incident.

After very dissapointing game against Alanyaspor during Super League, Fenerbahce would come out to play one of the important games at the Europa League Group A group stage against giants Manchester United. With Fenerbahce being leaders at the group, the draw might be enough from Old Trafford.

It needs to be stated that Manchester United also didnt start its season at the Premier League in very successful manner and did lose high number of the points but it does have players which are much more quality naturally such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Pogba. So it will not be an easy game for Fenerbahce at all. Taking account of the incident with the plane which has landed to the Hungary due of bird hitting window would also provide some damage to the team, to the tiredness and lack of training and rest. This physical aspect could provide advantage to Manchester United, but Fenerbahce only thing to do is to believe its strength. This game would also be special for Robin van Persie who is returning to his old club and he did state several times that he is excited to play against his old club and would aim to provide top football. It is chance for Robin van Persie to show himself again.

This would be pretty tough game for Fenerbahce taking account its opponents and also its poor performance at the Super League, but it does have chance as it is questinable how would United perform themselves.

Osmanlispor needs to carry on its impressive performance at Europa League.

Osmanlispor carries on impressive Europa League campaign against favourites of the group Villareal who are also leaders at the group with obtaining 4 points after two games. Osmanlispor does need to come out to game at full focus and believe to its strength if it wants to get right result.

Osmanlispor has become surely one of the most impressive teams at this season at Europa League despite of it being only at the group stages and this motivation and confidence obtained from tournament should be carried on at the game tomorrow. It should not be scared of the team which is even through does come out as favourite is not much more stronger. It needs to be stated that by winning Villareal, Osmanlispor to have chance to get leadership also at the group if Steaua Bucharest manages to win Zurich. So this factor should also keep Osmanlispor to be motivated and mark an important historical chance at the midstage of the Group L stage.

Osmanlispor has arleady created focus towards them but it needs to build on that and provide strong message to the rest teams of the group and in fact towards whole group.

Results:
UEFA Champions League, Group B, 3rd week:
Napoli 2:3 Besiktas
Dinamo Kiev 0:2 Benfica

Schedule
UEFA Europa League, Group H, 3rd week:
20:00 Konyaspor - Braga
20:00 Shakhtar Donetsk - Gent

UEFA Europa League, Group L, 3rd week:
20:00 Osmanlispor - Villareal
20:00 Steaua Bucharest - Zurich

UEFA Europa League, Group A, 3rd week:
22:05 Manchester United - Fenerbahce
22:05 Feyenoord - Zorya

In other news: 

- Istanbul Police Department has announced that Trabzonspor fans will be allowed for Super League 8th week game against Galatasaray.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek: Two seasos ago we made 55 million euro loss, last year 17 million euro and this year we aim for profit.UEFA doesnt want to make fines to the teams it wants them to be more careful with financial activities.

- Bursaspor CEO Ali Ay: I am thinking to reduce list of administration from 15 members to 7. We might have CEO election on May 2017.
I have talked with TFF and Referee Committee about decisions towards us. But we need members everywhere to heard.
- Bursaspor general manager Erhan Basoglu:We would call UEFA to inspect our stadium.We still need to improve and plan to solve it in 15 days

- Trabzonspor plans to start works on the field of the Akyazi Stadium on 29th October.

- Fenerbahce will start with Robin van Persie at the Europa League 3rd week game against Manchester United.

- Fenerbahce player Moussa Sow has recovered from his injury and can play against Manchester United tomorrow.

- Fenerbahce player has called its player Gregory van del Wiel to meeting to discuss about his latest poor performance.

- It is rumoured that Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim could call for CEO election on May 2017 without making himself candidate.

- Galatasaray plans to sell its player Semih Kaya and loan Martin Linnes during midseason transfer window.

- Southampton are interested to transfer Mainz 05 player Yunus Malli.

- Arsenal are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Bruma

What happened in Turkish football today? 18.10.2016

Besiktas will play its most toughest game so far in this season.

Besiktas is going to play its most tough game so far at this year Champions League as it would play against well in-form Group B opponent Napoli at the 3rd week. So far Napoli has won two previous games at the group with confident scorelines.

This is probably best chance for Besiktas to measure its capability to compete at the Champions League this season as so far it has played against strong opponents, namely Benfica and Dinamo Kiev, but to all respect to them their level is far from top-class teams at the tournament. Besiktas does come to the game at high mood as it didnt lose any single game during this season and has drawn against both Dinamo Kiev and Benfica with 1:1 scoreline in previous games at the group. But it does need to be remembered that Napoli didnt have big issues with same opponents in previous games. It became clear meanwhile that Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes would start with one attacker at the formation with providing chance to Vincent Aboubakar who has so far provided dissapointment to team and its supporters without scoring a single goal so far. Besiktas mainly does need to provide strong defence as it plays against opponent who does score high amount of goals this season.

Meanwhile, if results go in the way how Napoli wants it can qualify to the knock-out stages at the half-way of the group stage, which could provide some advantage at the return game but again this scenario is not really good as it means that Besiktas would lose tomorrow for this to happen and hence will lose advantage at the group for at least for 2nd place.

Trabzonspor still believes that patience is key for future success.

Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta with an inverview to Turkish news agency has stated today that the team does need some patience to improve in this season with taking account of what kind of financial situation the team has been.

Usta underlines that it will be unproductive to expect results straight away with taking this into account and it doesnt aim to do big changes at the squad and change its head coach Ersun Yanal. In view of Usta the issue is inside the team in sense of financially and administrative side and providing changes to technical staff and players will not solve issue. Muharrem Usta is seen to provide patience and believe into better future the character which is very rare at the Turkish football which tends to go to the big changes as soon as there is some negative results at the team. Team does meanwhile hope for good performance at the game against Galatasaray on 22nd October which it sees as chance to get back motivation to the team.

Trabzonspor as been mentioned several times in this blog needs just get motivation boost and it might gain that confidence its seeking for  in upcoming weeks if things are done properly at the team.

Basaksehirspor can become Turkish Leicester City if it stays focussed.

Following 7th week of the Super League, it became clear at least for now that league is developing with 3 teams fighting for top position at the league and could become biggest contestants for league title at the end of the season. Those teams are being Basaksehirspor, Besiktas and Galatasaray.

All of the 3 teams has obtained 17 points with 5 wins and 2 draws, and carrying on this season without any loss. Despite of only 7 weeks to be passed this leaders has arleady have 4 point difference from Bursaspor who is currently at 4th place. Basaksehirspor does have chance to become Turkish version of Leicester City if it stays focus and carries on this performance. Basaksehirspor has stated that it doesnt aim for league title and aims to end at top 4 at the end of the season, announcement normal for team who is at the area of leadership. With league titles being won by only top 4 teams + Bursaspor its normal statement to keep players not being too optimistic and not getting to carried away. Bursaspor has made similar statements,in fact Sivasspor when not getting league title with only 1 loss, head coach Bulent Uygun has stated that he doesnt want to become champion in that season. However, with small steps Basaksehirspor can take this league title at the end of the season if it stays focus.

However, this season will be hard as Besiktas and Galatasaray are so far are being at good form while as remembered when Bursaspor became champion its rivals didnt provide top football in fact. Actually, Bursaspor was 8 points behind leaders at this stage in 2009-10 when it got title so its still early days (there is hope for Fenerbahce fans).

Schedule
UEFA Champions League, Group B, 3rd week: 
21:45 Napoli-Besiktas
21:45 Dinamo Kiev-Benfica

In other news:

- TFF has announced referrals to the Professional Football Disciplinary Committee which are: 
- Kayserispor has been referred for behaviour of the fans
- Alanyaspor has been referred for 5 players getting yellow cards and 1 player getting red card during game.
- Trabzonspor has been referred due of events at the field.

- UEFA has appointed Turkish referee Ali Palabayik to referee Europa League 3rd week game between St.Etienne and Qabala.

- Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu: We have sold problems from last season and it shows in standings.Trabzonspor game will be hard. We are sending players to national team and their return from their injured.Its hard to get from TFF despite of FIFA regulations.We are recieving transfer offers for Bruma and Muslera. But we playing for title right now.

- Gaziantepspor head coach Ismail Kartal: Rajtoral cards has been recieved from actions outside of football. We might give him fine for this

- Trabzonspor has announced that it has reduced salary of its player Dame N'doye from 2,500,000 euro to 1,700,000 euro for rest 2 seasons.

- Fenerbahce administration plans to ask team head coach Dick Advocaat not to leave to Holland prior to Galatasaray game on 20/11.

- Trabzonspor: Our club has used credit of 210 million TL to pay for previous credit debts and 55 million TL to spend short-term debts.

- Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera:My journey this time took longer as I have waited for transfer for 3-4 hours in Panama.I spend 14 hours. I am really enjoying in here and this season football makes me exciting. There is confidence at team

- Galatasaray wants to build its new facilities at the European side and not be too far from its current Florya location

- Fenerbahce player Jeremain Lens is not expecting to play against Manchester United during Europa League 3rd week game.

- Galatasaray player Wesley Sneijder is not expected to be ready for Super League game against Trabzonspor due of injury.

- Galatasaray is expected to start with Josue, Podolski and Cavanda against Trabzonspor during Super League 8th week game.

- Bursaspor player Emre Tasdemir has resumed training session after recovering from injury.

- Fenerbahce player Moussa Sow has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Besiktas plans to extend contract with its player Dusko Tosic during mid-season.

- Galatasaray player Martin Linnes is looking for new clubs to be transferred in mid-season transfer window.

- Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera plans to stay in club for long time and will name his 2nd child with Turkish name.

- Fenerbahce player Emmanuel Emenike has apologized to head coach Dick Advocaat for his actions during substitute against Alanyaspor.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Juventus player Jose Martin Caceres.

- Borussia Dortmund are interested to transfer Rizespor player Ogulcan Caglayan.

- Lyon are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Aurelian Chedjou.

- Montreal Impact player Didier Drogba is willing to return to Galatasaray during midseason transfer window

- Fenerbahce are interested to appoint Karabukspor head coach Igor Tudor as club new coach.

- Bayer Leverkusen player Omer Toprak is expected to be transferred to Borussia Dortmund for 4 years with 12 million euro transfer fee.

What happened in Turkish football today? 17.10.2016

Fenerbahce players are not used to Dick Advocaat tactics.

Yesterday's Fenerbahce draw against Alanyaspor at the Super League 7th week game has shown that the team poor start at the league carries on and it does have serious issues with performance wise. It is certain that the team is performing much below than it should have to with taking player  strength at the squad in this season.

It became visible during the game that the team is having trouble at playing into tactics which team head coach Dick Advocaat is awaiting them to perform. One of those things is that previous head coach Vitor Pereira, in criticising manner, has demanded from players to play more defensive play while Dick Advocaat wants them to provide attacking football. With most players staying from last season it is will be hard for them to get adapted to this new formation, including towards 4-4-2. In fact, number of defenders such as Roman Neustadner and Simon Kjaer seem to feel unusual with such a tactic. It would be harsh to criticise and maybe some time should be given to Advocaat but if this time is given is should be taken account that hopes for this season league title are pretty low right now.

Fenerbahce still has good chance at the Europa League as it is leading at the Group A prior to Manchester United game on 20th October. If it achieves to get at least draw it still has chance to have good European season at least.

Trabzonspor needs to find goals for motivation boost. 

Despite of not winning Akhisar Belediyespor during Super League 7th week game, Trabzonspor has shown a good performance at the 2nd half playing forward focus play and was struck by perfect goalkeeping skills by Akhisar player Fatih Ozturk.

Trabzonspor has been criticised a lot in this season and also in previous seasons to playing a slow football without much successful attacks which also could be reason for their poor performance. However, it did come out against Akhisar Belediyespor in more positive mood and has shown that it wanted to win the game with number of dangerous attacks it has created during game. Those attacks might not be well organised but this will to win the game was important especially prior to very crucial game against Galatasaray who are as known are in great form. What does Trabzonspor obviously needs is to win games and start scoring goals in each game, regardless of the results, as goals would raise motivation which team is seem to be lacking of currently.

Trabzonspor as been mentioned will play against Galatasaray and yesterday's performance might not be enough for beating them but Trabzonspor always provided good performance against Istanbul clubs apart of some exceptions. Therefore, it needs to stay focussed to the game.

Besiktas administration have trust and patience with Vincent Aboubakar. 

There are lots of criticism from Besiktas front towards its player Vincent Aboubakar, who is loaned from Porto for 1-year, with his lacking of finding goals including from simple positions.

It needs to be reminded that Aboubakar was bought as an alternative to the Mario Gomez and Demba Ba and hence administration and fans were expecting for him to score goals. However, with 7 weeks passing he still didnt find single goal despite of having very good chances. There are rumours that team might consider sending him back to Porto and find some alternatives during transfer period in mid-season, however administration are showing good support on him. In fact, Besiktas general secretary Ahmet Urkmezgil has made clear during today's interview to Turkish sports radio station that those rumours of finding alternatives are not representing the truth. It does look like in reverse Besiktas would provide high support for Aboubakar to raise his mood.

It is important to note that as with most of the players, when Vincent Aboubakar will find his first goal it could follow with much more, regardless how he scores that goal.

Results
Turkish Super League, 7th week:
Antalyaspor 1:1 Rizespor

In other news:

- UEFA has announced that referee of Champions League 3rd week game between Napoli and Besiktas will be Russian Sergei Karasev.

- UEFA has announced that referee of Europa League 3rd week game between Manchester United and Fenerbahce will be French Benoit Bastien

- UEFA has announced that referee of Europa League 3rd week game between Konyaspor and Braga will be Azeri referee Aliyar Agayev.

- UEFA has announced that referee of Europa League 3rd week game between Villareal and Osmanlispor will be Spanish referee Liran Liany.

- Basaksehirspor CEO Goksel Gumusdag is reported to have argument with Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim for not selecting its player Yalcin Ayhan to the national team squad.

- German Football Federation has provided 2-game ban to Borussia Dortmund player Emre Mor for harsh foul in game against Hertha Berlin.

- Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma goal against Dinamo Kiev during Champions League 2nd week game has been chosen best goal of that week.

- Trabzonspor: Our player Ogenyi Onazi injury is not very serious and he is expected to restart training session at the midweek.

- Trabzonspor fans had a cursed argument with club 2nd CEO Nevzat Aydin during of the Super League 7th week game against Akhisar Belediyespor

- Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup is not expecting to play against Napoli during Champions League 3rd week game.

- Fenerbahce plans to start Europa League 3rd week game against Manchester United with Miroslav Stoch.

- Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu: This standings does show that league title race will be going until end. But we are favourites.Bruma had some loss of confidence before but now he got it back. We helped him to improve.Trabzonspor games are always very hard games. We aim for win but it wont be easy.

- Galatasaray plans to offer 5 year extension contract to its player Bruma.

- Lille has provided transfer offer for Galatasaray player Lionel Carole but both player and club has declined offer.

- Fenerbahce plans to transfer midfielder during mid-season transfer window.

- Fenerbahce administrators are considering to appoint coach as Konyaspor coach Aykut Kocaman. There is also talks to give fine to players.Fenerbahce also considers to take away from squads Aatif Chahechohue, Miroslav Stoch and Roman Neustadner.

- Galatasaray player Fernanda Muslera is reported to be unhappy to travel to Montevideo from Istanbul via transfer fligh

What happened in Turkish football today? 16.10.2016

Fenerbahce were somehow  reluctant to shoot at the goal against Alanyaspor.

Fenerbahce carries on providing a very poor start to the season with this time drawing against Alanyaspor during Super League 7th week game with 1:1 scoreline. This could be seen surely as one of the worst performance of a team for this season.

Fenerbahce didnt show much upper hand despite of fact that it did attack several times during the game and has provide very amateur performance especially during 2nd half of the game, especially at the end of the game. The game, to all respect of effort given by two sides, did look like it was played by bunch of the kids at the street. There was organisation at creating chances by Fenerbahce but somehow the players seemed to forget or being too scared to shoot at the goal which lead for chances to score more than shots themselves, and that taking account that Alanyaspor didnt interfere defensively with their attacks a lot. Fenerbahce had created great chances but it was passing ball even times when it needed just to shoot. Even Miroslav Stoch who is great with distance shots seemed to be reluctant and Ozan Tufan except of shooting at the goal position created by himself has decided to pass, an option which made situation even tougher. Fenerbahce lack of shooting did in fact made chance of winning this game naturally much harder.

Alanyaspor despite of not playing too much top football, did in return show great attitute and response with prior to scoring and red card of its player has provided game at the middle. With reluctance of Fenerbahce providing organised game and also slow game has led them to provide great response and gain confidence as game progressed.

Fenerbahce has provided very worrying image prior to Manchester United game at the Europa League and with the lack of using chances which been created it would have big issues on 20th October. The problem seems to be more psychological.

Trabzonspor has played much more attacking football but didnt manage to pass Akhisar Belediyespor goalkeeper.

In similar manner as Fenerbahce, Trabzonspor carries on providing poor performance at the early stages of the Super League by ending 7th week game against Akhisar Belediyespor with goalless draw despite of providing better football compare to previous games.

It needs to be stated that Trabzonspor had very good attacking football during the game especially during 2nd half but it couldnt pass Akhisar Belediyespor goalkeeper Fatih Ozturk at the game which it had played 1st time with its supporters in this season due of supporter's ban it had from last season.
Trabzonspor did provide some possible game which could provide some positive aspect for upcoming games but taking account that Akhisar Belediyespor is not having good season compare to their previous season. Trabzonspor did provide an attacking football at the 2nd half and showed signs that it wants to win the game and Akhisar Belediyespor didnt manage to control game but performance of goalkeeper has provide one of the best performance of this week. With supporters coming actively to the game, their might be happy with performance but with scoreline it is still dissapointed.

With Akhisar Belediyespor being one of the eye-catching teams of the last season, however it didnt start this season in a way that it was planning to do and it needs to improve especially at the attacking front. It could be very risky for them to rely into goalkeeper for upcoming games.

Trabzonspor has shown more eye-pleasing football especially prior to the Galatasaray but it would get higher motivation boost for a game if it managed to win the game. Trabzonspor as been stated earlier needs to just get motivation and confidence for results to come.

Galatasaray has won an important game despite of poor performance.

Galatasaray has won a very crucial game at the away game against Genclerbirligi as its opponent who it has tough time for few years and carries on its race for leadership at the table with Basaksehirspor and Besiktas. However, it does need to be stated that Galatasaray didnt provide its top football.

Galatasaray did start game in very good manner with Bruma scoring at the 13th minute and prior to goal their provided lots of attacks with aiming to find early goal in this crucial game but however as time progressed it went into more passive game with some extend Genclerbirligi allowing them to do so. At the weekend, where top 3 teams did provide poor performance it was important for
Galatasaray for at least get a win. In fact, Galatasaray has won many times in its history while playing poorly at the game. Galatasaray has slowed down entirely during 2nd half of the game which could be seen as the worst half for a team in this season. Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera has once again became hero of the game with saving number of dangerous balls during 2nd half and has surely saved a game for his team. This reliability by team to him is in fact could be very worrying in future games as it was last season.

Despite of all downsides, Galatasaray has got an important win and is looking forward for Trabzonspor game on 22nd October where it would surely aim to get a win as it is now gained  high motivation as it did start season in great mood.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 7th week:
Basaksehirspor 1:1 Konyaspor
Bursaspor 0:0 Osmanlispor
Fenerbahce 1:1 Alanyaspor
Trabzonspor 0:0 Akhisar Belediyespor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 7th week:
19:00 Antalyaspor - Rizespor

In other news:

- Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir will be referreeing Champions League 3rd week game between Bayer Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur on 18/10.

- Besiktas player Cenk Tosun has been observed to have argument with Omer Sismanoglu during game against Kayserispor.

- Anadolujet has presented special design plane for Besiktas which would transport them to Napoli for Champions League game against Napoli.

- Besiktas player Andreas Beck:I am happy in Istanbul and in team I have no intentions to leave team.Terror attacks sadly can happen anywhere. I have passed the bridge one hour before failed coup d'etat. We live next to it. It was all normal next day

- Fenerbahce plans to start building new facility in the Antalya, Belek area within 1 year.

- Al Ain is willing to pay 3.5 million euro transfer for Fenerbahce player Miroslav Stoch.

What happened in Turkish football today? 15.10.2016

Galatasaray has won game by early goal scored by Bruma.

Galatasaray carries on its great start of the season by providing taste of the defeat to the Genclerbirligi first time in this season with a goal by Bruma at the 13th minute during Super League 7th week game which was expecting to be one of the most-awaiting game of this weekend.

However, it does need to be stated that game didnt develop as was expected and with Bruma managing to find pretty lucky goal so early at the game and despite of both sides finding very good attacks, the tempo of the game has been at the mediocre during the game. It does need to be stated that the goal scored by Bruma was lucky as the reflection from Hopf after Eren Derdiyok shot has been come right to the head of Portuguese player. Galatasaray it does need to be stated has created a good chances number of chances following that goal but didnt convert them. In fact, Genclerbirligi has created also very good chances especially with attacks by Stancu but as usual Fernando Muslera has proved once again that he is great goalkeeper and its pretty hard to pass him while he stands at the goal. Overall, Galatasaray had managed to control game at one of the tough away games of the season.

Genclerbirligi did provide good fight at the game and has provided very good chances making Fernando Muslera work pretty hard during the game, however it needed to provide faster tempo if it wanted to win the game and didnt show much believe to fight for win.

Galatasaray carries on winning and providing very competitive fight for leadership among number of clubs who are fighting for the league leadership, mainly with Besiktas and Basaksehirspor at this stage of league.

Besiktas has won crucial game against Kayserispor thanks to Omer Sismanoglu goal.

Besiktas player Omer Sismanoglu goal during 67th minute has managed to bring an important win during Super League 7th week game against Kayserispor at the game where it had managed to dominate whole game but had issues to convert chances.

In the way which was shown by Kayserispor at this season, especially against big 4 teams, once again the focus was done into defence which was among one of the reasons why Besiktas has controlled whole game but didnt convert chances. In fact, during whole game Kayserispor has made only one mistake which was to leave Omer Sismanoglu alone which helped him to find a goal. Saying that its need to be stated that during 1st half Vincent Aboubakar has found very similar chances but didnt manage to convert them into goals. This carries on issue at the Besiktas of Aboubakar not able to find goals and being under pressure right now. Apart of not finding goals during the game, Besiktas did control the game from start to an end and has shown upper hand in one period of times even dominating and didnt allow Kayserispor to control game at all.

Kayserispor still carries on showing that it has good goalkeeper and defence players but there are still issues at the front areas. Kayserispor also didnt manage to convert counter attacks even when scoreline was 0:0. It does need to improve its attacking area if it wont to have good season.

It was hard win for Besiktas and surely tiresome which could affect negatively prior to Champions League crucial game against Napoli but it obtained motivation which it did need right now.

Fenerbahce only option is to win Alanyaspor.

Fenerbahce will restart its Super League season following national team break at what seems to be simple game against Alanyaspor but it is surely an opponent which should not be taken lightly and it needs to be stayed full focus.

Fenerbahce does come out as a favourite however as it was observed from this season Alanyaspor is very unpredictable team which can have very good games and have very badly with scoring lots of goal or otherwise conceding in other words the game has been dominating by the mood. For Fenerbahce certainly to get upper hand of the game is to find early goal during the game so reduce chances for Alanyaspor to fill confident with support of their fans. So far the team manage to lose without controlling game against Besiktas but same time won confidently Trabzonspor. Fenerbahce is slowly does show improvement and it needs to carry on this way for tomorrow game and get motivation boost for very hard game on 20th October against Manchester United at the Europa League.

Fenerbahce does need to win against Alanyaspor so it wont recieve much more damage which it has at the Super League and do come out to the Manchester United next week.

Results
Turkish Super League, 7th week:
Kasimpasa 0:0 Gaziantepspor
Kayserispor 0:1 Besiktas
Adanaspor 1:2 Karabukspor
Genclerbirligi 0:1 Galatasaray

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 7th week:
13:30 Bursaspor - Osmanlispor
13:30 Basaksehirspor - Konyaspor
16:00 Fenerbahce- Alanyaspor
19:00 Trabzonspor - Akhisar Belediyespor

In other news:

- There was an offer for TFF CEO Yildirim Demiroren to run for UEFA presidency but he had refused offer stating that he needs more time.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek: Our aim is for now to surplus all our great achievements. I hope one day we would have Champions League cup.

- Twente player Enes Unal has stated that he doesnt think to be transferred to any Turkish club apart Bursaspor.

- Trabzonspor scouting teams are currently viewing 60 games per week to find potential transfer for mid-season transfer window.

- Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta: As we club we going through tough times. We need to work to improve and work with our youth now.

- Fenerbahce player Moussa Sow injury is being reported to be due of tiredness.

- Fenerbahce player Jeremain Lens is expected to be among substitutes during Super League 7th week game against Alanyaspor.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel began taking coaching lessons from team head coach Dick Advocaat.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Chelsea player Fabregas.

- Chinese clubs are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Fernandao.

- Cristal Palace, Middlesborough and Everton are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie.

What happened in Turkish football today? 14.10.2016

Galatasaray would play a game against tough Genclerbirligi.

Galatasaray is going to restart its Super League following national team break with the 7th week game against Genclerbirligi which promises to be among most interesting games of the week as it would be game between two sides which didnt lose game so far at the season.

The main downside for the Galatasaray at the game against Genclerbirligi will be factor that its star player Wesley Snejder will not be able to play tomorrow. Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink however did find very successful alternative for him at the game which would be Lukas Podolski who is capable to fill that space in a successful manner. Meanwhile, their opponents Genclerbirligi are having very good start of the season without losing a game after 6 weeks with providing strong atittute during the league and the factor that it is playing at the home could provide extra motivation. Most important aspect for the team is to not lay back which is character which been shown in most of the mediocre teams when playing against big 4. However, Genclerbirligi head coach Ibrahim Korkmaz has promised that his team will not do that tomorrow.

Galatasaray is awaiting a difficult game against tough opponent and hence it does need to control ball in very effective manner if it wants to leave with positive results at the end of the day.

Kayserispor is capable to bring surprise to Besiktas.

Besiktas game to some extend is not much easier compare to Galatasaray as it would also play against pretty tough opponent during Super League 7th week game. Kayserispor might not have as good start as Genclerbirligi, but their didnt lose a game against Fenerbahce and Galatasaray so far this season, drawing both games.

In fact, Galatasaray has so far drawn two games, against Besiktas and Kayserispor and hence the view that the game would be easy for Besiktas could be very mistreating as it seems to play against team which plays with extra motivation against big teams at this season. It will not have some clear players due of injury which includes Gokhan Inler and Oguzhan Ozyakup but this should not provide too much issue as its alternative squad is pretty strong enough and Besiktas players are going out with big mood. Only main issue which it could have at the game tomorrow is the factor of passing intensive defence by Kayserispor, which is among main reason for it getting draws against other big 4 teams. Besiktas does play fast ball and being more fresh from national team break would be expected to provide fast paced game.

Besiktas is coming out as strong favourite but Kayserispor did provide some surprises in this season and hence it would not be an easy game for them.

Yildirim Demiroren repeats the fact that TFF is behind Fatih Terim.

Turkish Football Federation CEO Yildirim Demiroren did state at the television interview yesterday that TFF is providing strong support to the Fatih Terim and has also criticised media view of the issue, stating it tries to create between them and national team head coach.

It was not huge surprise for Demioren stating that he provides support as it was known that TFF was supporting Fatih Terim at the post and it does look that their willing to end the contract with him which last until next season. He mentioned that it has personal choice to choose players which Terim wants and its not for them to interfere and only thing it can do is to support him and provide some monetary support. He stated that media currently tries to make conflict with TFF and Terim but it wont succeed as their determined to support coach during this period and believes it can get to the World Cup 2018 in Russia. This support is expected and needs to be shown but as stated earlier at the blog results need to come as soon as possible by national team.

Next to two games are against Kosova and Finland and the way team plays among results might make clear future of the Fatih Terim post as the head coach of the national team.

Schedule
Turkish Super League, 8th week:
14:00  Kasimpasa - Gaziantepspor
17:00 Kayserispor - Besiktas
19:30 Adanaspor - Karabukspor
20:00 Genclerbirligi - Galatasaray

In other news:

- UEFA discipline court has provided warning ban to the Osmanlispor general manager Ender Yurtguven.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek: My aim is to make sure club goes forward. I have no intentions to leave team if some projects dont work.Everyone needs to be aware we working with general committee. I inform them with all my plans.

- Macedonia National Team has send request to Fenerbahce player Ertan Ersu to compete for their nation.

- Fenerbahce would start with Moussa Sow and Alper Potuk during Super League 7th week game against Alanyaspor with 4-3-3 formation.

- Besiktas would install LCD screen at the roof of the Vodafone Arena with which it gains to make 10,000,000 TL profit.

- Fenerbahce player Moussa Sow has become injured during today's training session.

- Gursel Turizm has presented its bus to the Fenerbahce which would provide extra safety to the players.

- Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup has made his injury even worser by playing against Galatasaray at Super League.

- Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup had seperate training due of injury during training session.

- Besiktas player Veli Kavlak: Thankfully my recovery is going well right now. I would start training sessions next week.

- Besiktas player Gokhan Inler: I want to win against Napoli but I will not celebrate if I score.

- Galatasaray player Bruma: I have no intention to leave Galatasaray. My aim is to get league titles and spend good time in club.

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat plans to use its player Robin van Persie at the position 10 place.

- Lokomotiv Moscow are interested to transfer Beijing Guoan player Burak Yilmaz.

- Atletico Madrid are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan.

- Bursaspor are interested to transfer Sparta Prague player Michael Kadlec.

- Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma plans to extend his contract with club at the end of the season.

- Lyon are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Lionel Carole.

- Besiktas are interested to loan Twente player Enes Unal at midseason transfer window.

- Fenerbahce assistant coach Cor Pot might be leaving club for Holland National Team under-21 team head coach position.