TURKCELL SUPER LEAGUE WEEKEND REVIEW (WEEK:16)

At the end of the week 15Th, Sivasspor the Turkey's Turkcell Super League's surprise team was on top of all Istanbul big guns..
This was first time in long time,Anatolian team hold the leagues top place this far in the first half of the Turkcell Super League.

Week 16Th was the week that Sivaspor not only got knocked out of the first place ,they end up sharing the second place with Fenerbahce.

Galatasaray ,Fenerbahce and Besiktas teams were the big winners in the week 16Th.

The gap, in the race for the top spot was closed by Fenerbahce and Besiktas.

In the last week of the first half ,before the winter brake, Besiktas, Fenerbahce,Galatasaray and Sivasspor will have difficult matches.

Could Galatasaray close the first half, on top of the Turkcell Super League, is for now, question mark in my opinion!

They have to travel to Ankara to play another surprise and young team Genclerbirligi
Oftas.
A draw or loss in Ankara, could jepordise the first place for Galatasaray.
On the other hand Sivasspor will be home against very bad Genclerbirligi and Fenerbahce will be home against Ersun Yanal's Trabzonspor.
The team who is chasing these teams very closely, Besiktas, will travel to Manisa to play Vestel Manisaspor.
Manisaspor is desperate for points to get out of the danger zone!....

Three matches in the week 17th will decide who will finish on top of the league...
those three matches are Genclerbirlgi OFTAS v Galatasaray, Sivasspor v Genclerbirligi and Fenerbahce v Trabzonspor.......

While the race on top is heating up , what is so interesting is, from fifth place team Kayserispor who has 25 points to just above the danger zone 15Th place team Vestel Manisspor who has 17 points, has only 8 point difference between them!...
We know, League's rock-bottom teams Kasimpasa and Ankaraspor will have to do miracales in the second half of the season to stay in the Turkcell Super League.
The Third bottom team Genclerbirligi who has 14 points, only three points below the Vestel Manisaspor. Both teams(Vestel,Genclerbirligi) are playing against the top contenders this weekend. These two matches will affect the top and bottom in my opinion!....

WEEK 16 ROUNDUP...........

Galatasaray claimed a two-goal victory over Sivasspor.Shabani Nonda put the home side ahead with a goal in the 82nd minute, while two minutes later midfielder Baris Ozbek found the net to seal the points at the Ali Sami Yen Stadium.
Ankaraspor's relegation woes have increased after they slumped to a 2-1 home defeat to Caykur Rizespor to remain second from bottom.

Necati Ates' 57th-minute equaliser looked like it might rescue a point for the home side after Ribeiro Nascimento had given the visitors the lead, but Leandro Rodriguez bagged the winner just three minutes later.

The victory moved Rizespor up to 12th in the table, while the hosts have won just twice in 16 games this season.

Trabzonspor kept their European hopes alive after coming from behind to record a 2-1 win over Istanbul Buyuksehir BSK thanks to a quick-fire brace from Gokdeniz Karadeniz.

Erman Kilic gave the visitors the lead from the penalty spot, but Karadeniz struck twice in the space of four minutes to turn the match on its head.

Trabzonspor movedup to sixth with victory, while the visitors are still searching for their first away win of the season.

Gaziantepspor upset Konyaspor after goals late in each half from Yunus Ceylan and Ekrem Dag gave them a 2-1 win.

Erman Ozgur had levelled for the visitors, who missed out on the chance to move up to fifth.
Fenerbahce have moved back to within a point of Galatasaray with a 2-0 win at Genclerbirligi.

Burhan Eser had put Genclerbirligi ahead after just 11 minutes, but Semih Senturk equalised in the 66th minute before grabbing the winner five minutes from time to keep Fenerbahce within touch of Galatasaray.

Besiktas remain four points off the top after they recovered from their UEFA Champions League exit to beat Ankaragucu 3-1.

Goals from Rodrigo Tello and Serdar Ozcan had put Besiktas 2-0 up at the break and although Alper Aydin pulled one back for Ankaragucu just after the restart, Mathias Delgado sealed the win on 67 minutes.

Elsewhere, Sandro da Silva saw red for Genclerbirligi OFTAS as they were beaten 2-1 by Denzilispor, Kayerispor saw off Buraspor 4-1 despite having Franco Cangele dismissed late on and bottom-placed Kasimpasa drew 2-2 with Manisaspor.

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Nihat Kahveci scored two goals

Nihat Kahveci scored two goals as Villarreal snapped a two-game losing streak with a 3-1 win over Getafe.

Nihat beat goalkeeper Oscar Ustari with a shot inside the far post after a pass from Robert Pires in the 16th minute. Pires again set up Nihat in the 79th for his second goal at the near post.

Santiago Cazorla scored the third for Villarreal in the 84th, two minutes before Kepa Blanco's consolation goal.

Villarreal, which had trailed leader Madrid by only one single point before a three-game winless streak, has 31 points.

WATCH TUNCAY SANLI'S GOAL AGAINST DERBY

TUNCAY'S THIRD BACK TO BACK GOAL IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE!...

Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate :"Tuncay gives us incredible enthusiasm and energy."

Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate is very happy of the performance of in-form Tuncay .
Southgate praised Tuncay and he said : "He gives us incredible enthusiasm and energy "
"He took on an effort that two weeks ago he probably wouldn't have done because of his confidence.

"But after scoring two in two coming into this game he has now settled and he has a rapport with the fans who can see the effort he is putting in.

"His work ethic has been fantastic since he arrived. It's just that it took him a little while to find the back of the net.

"But we are now seeing the quality he has and with three goals in his last three games, they have been crucial for us because all of them have been goals that have won us points."

Tuncay Sanli swept home a side-foot volley from 15 yards in meeting a precision first-time cross from left-winger Stewart Downing in the 37th minute to give Boro a second victory in the space of a week.

TUNCAY SANLI'S GOAL SEND DERBY TO ROCK-BOTTOM!

Tuncay Sanli's great run of form continued as he fired Middlesbrough to a 1-0 win at Derby - in Paul Jewell's first match in charge at Pride Park.

Tuncay Sanli grabbed the only goal of the game shortly before half-time to seal a second successive victory for Boro.

The goal came against the run of the play at the time and it was totally out of keeping with what had gone before, as the Rams and Boro had previously appeared Premier League teams in name only.

Yet Tuncay's 38th-minute strike oozed quality as he stroked a sidefoot volley beyond Stephen Bywater from 15 yards in meeting a first-time cross from left winger Stewart Downing.

The goal stood out like a beacon, and after a run of 11 successive matches without a win for the visitors, it is now two on the trot for boss Gareth Southgate's side to lift them clear of the relegation zone.

Yet considering Southgate's side had primarily outplayed Arsenal in a shock 2-1 home win last weekend, this was a performance in stark contrast, in particular until they opened the scoring.

It could be that Boro were dragged down to Derby's level because the east midlands club surely cannot sink too much lower in this disastrous campaign.

Jewell commented in his pre-match press conference on Thursday on the basic need of eliminating the simple errors the team continue to make.

Yet despite captain Matt Oakley insisting Jewell had instilled an air of positivity since his arrival, his words are falling on deaf ears.

Tuncay's goal was a case in point as a ball was aimlessly hoofed clear out of defence, only for it to be pumped straight back into the path of Downing.

To be fair to Jewell and Derby, despite their inability to often play a ball in a straight line to a team-mate, they did create a number of chances, even if many were long range.

Teenage star Giles Barnes, Oakley and substitute Jay McEveley - who had replaced the injured Andy Griffin in the 29th minute - all tried their luck from distance.

Mark Schwarzer, returning in goal after missing the last two games with a broken thumb, was smartly down on each occasion to smother the respective shots on his goal-line.

Derby's best effort in the opening 45 minutes came within a minute of Tuncay's sweet strike, with Kenny Miller clipping the outside of the right-hand post with a shot on the turn from the edge of the area.

The only other moment of quality had earlier arrived in the fourth minute, courtesy of the fact Griffin was nowhere to be seen.

Taking advantage of the open space at left-back, Tuncay played an inch-perfect ball into the feet of Gary O'Neil, resulting in a searing angled drive that was superbly saved by Bywater.

The Rams goalkeeper then kept his side in the game eight minutes into the second half as Boro should have killed the game off.

But Bywater produced a stunning fingertip stop to turn a first-time drive from Downing inches past the left-hand post following an electrifying break to Tuncay to tee up the England winger.

Moments later, and with Derby's defence rocking, Boro captain George Boateng then planted a header against the left-hand post after diving onto a cross inside the area from Fabio Rochemback.

It prompted Jewell into a positive change as he brought on last week's goalscorer in the 4-1 defeat at Manchester United in striker Steve Howard for Gary Teale in the 56th minute.

With the Rams playing 4-4-2, and with Barnes switched to his more natural right-wing position, it offered Derby greater stability.

It was Barnes who had Derby's best two chances in a closing 30 minutes they primarily dominated as Boro were forced to defend in numbers.

But one 20-yard effort was dragged wide, while another from just inside the area was coolly plucked out of the air by Schwarzer.

In the end, with relegation rivals Wigan, Sunderland and Birmingham all picking up points, this was a bad day for Jewell and Derby.

Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate hailed the performance of in-form Tuncay that piled the agony on rock-bottom Derby.

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Groundbreaking for new Galatasaray Stadium!.

Galatasaray soccer team of Turkey laid the foundation of a new sports complex in Istanbul's Seyrantepe neighborhood on Thursday.

The stadium itself will have a retractable roof, with the complex having parking for 4,500 vehicles.

The stadium, being built by the Prime Minister Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKI) and the construction firm Erentalu-Alke, is expected to be completed in two years.

Ali Sami Yen was the scene of many great victories, but, is aged and crumbling.