Trabzonspor, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce on the verge of saying goodbye to European competitions....
Besiktas is the only team who has one foot in the Euro League groups out of four...
Trabzonspor, Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor should have a perfect win if they want to move to group stages,,,,
The most important match in Turkey will take pace in Trabzon..
Trabzonspor will take on world famous Liverpool at Avni Aker Stadium...
Trabzonspor is of the best teams in Turkey and sits on top of the SPOR TOTO Super League!
Trabzonspor will have the 12th man in the stands...
That will be huge factor in this match....
Under- pressure Liverpool, is missing captain Steven Gerrard and striker Fernando Torres...
Trabzonspor defense and the young skipper Onur Kivrak, has to have a perfect match.
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Fenerbahce will take on Greek team PAOK in Istanbul on Thursday in return match of the UEFA Europa League play-off.
PAOK defeated Fenerbahce 1-0 on August 19 in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League play-off in Thessaloniki.
Fnerbahce lost their league match to Trabzonspor in Trabzon on Monday...
And They are still having issues on defense and in the goal..
Against Trabzonspor, third string keeper Mert was in the goal for Fnerbahce...
Although he saved a penalty kick in Trabzon match he is inexperience young keeeper,,,
If Volkan does not play that could spell danger for Aykut Kocaman's Fenerbahce!
Like Trabzonspor, Fnerbace should beat PAOK with perfect score...
Semih Senturk is in juried, He will probably won t play in this match too...
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Galatasaray soccer will face on Thursday Ukraine's Karpaty Lviv in UEFA Europa League play-off round in Lviv.
Galatasaray drew 2-2 with Ukraine's Karpaty at its home in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League play-off round on August 19.
A loss , could spell resignation for under -pressure and under-fire dutch coach Frank Rijkaard...
Galatasaray started the worst season in the Turkish Super League.....
They have lost their two matches and they are in the rock bottom.
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Besiktas will take on Finland's HJK Helsinki in return match in the playy-off round of the UEFA Europa League in Finland.
Besiktas defeated Finland's HJK Helsinki 2-0 in the first leg of the playoff round of the UEFA Europa League in Istanbul on August 17.
Besiktas is the only team who has one foot in the group stages with this score...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
WHY ROBINHO SNUB TURKISH TEAMS?
So,Robinho has rejected a move to Turkey!
First Besiktas than Fenerbahce offered him pretty good money...
26-year-old said Robinho said : 'With all due respect to Turkish football, I'm not going to play there right now.
I wonder , over the weekend, talking to his friend , had anything to do with his decision?
Lately, Brazilian players are under a lot of pressure playing in Turkey!
Another factor, Robinho still young and only 26 years old...
His friend Elano, probably gave him pretty good idea about Turkey and Turkish football that is why he said, 'With all due respect to Turkish football, I'm not going to play there right now. "
With this comment, he left a open door for him to play in Turkey, in the later years of his football career!
So, this was clear snubbing job by Robinho to Turkish Teams!
Monday, August 23, 2010
WORST START EVER FOR GALATASARAY!
Frank Rijkaard with Ahmet B Turgut-2003
Turkish Spor Toto Super League begin only two weeks a go and Turkish Giants Galatasaray , hit rock bottom!
They are in the second from bottom of the Turkish Spor Toto Super League at the end of second week!
This is the worst start for Frank Rijkkard's Galatasaray.......
Galatasaray lost their second match in a row, suffering a 0-2 home defeat by Bursaspor.
The Turkish press after this disaster start wants Frank Rijkaard's head!
They want him to be sacked and Fatih Terim to come back to coach the team...
How absurd and stupid is that.....'
With this in the defending champs Bursaspor is back at on top of the Turkish Spor Toto Super League.
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Besiktas crash at home................
Besiktas suffered their first defeat of the season on Saturday.
New German Besiktaş coach Bernd Schuster, not knowing the Turkish Super Leagu teams just yet mad a huge mistake and went all out with attacking minded team..
The defense an Besiktas's rookie keeper Cenk Gonen, cost the match for the Besiktas!
Istanbul BB, in the second half killed Besiktas with counter attack goals and Besiktas reject Ibrahim Akin....
This loss should be a wake up call for Schuster and Besiktas.....
In the other matches on Friday ,Saturday and Sunday .....
Konyaspor beat Eskisehirspor 2-1,Kayserispor won against Karabükspor at home 1-0//
Antalyaspor and Sivasspor played for 1-1 draw in Antalya...
Manisaspor lost at home against Ankaragucu at home 0-3 and Genclerbirligi got a draw in Gaziantep with 0-0 score against Gaziantepspor.
MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.....
The match of the second week will be played between Trbzomspor and Fenerbahce in Trabzon on Monday Night.
The winner will make it two out of two in the league will share the lead with Bursaspor...
Both of these teams will play their second leg match in the Euro League play-off match on Thursday. Trabzonspor will face Liverpool at home and Fenerbahce will face rested Greek team PAOK in Istanbul.
While Liverpool plays a league match on Monday , Fenerbahce's opponent PAOK will wait Thursday
Also on Monday Night, Kasimpasa will face Bucaspor in Istanbul.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
COULD TRABZONSPOR DO IT AGAIN?
Three teams from Turkey, Galatasaray,Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor are going to play their first leg match in the UEFA Europa League play-off round , on Thursday.
Out of three Trabzonspor team will have the world's attention because they will face the world class team, Liverpool.
Liverpool, just like Fenerbahce , missed the chance to play in the Champions League..
The last time two team met it was 34 years ago...
In the first match, than, Trabzonspor the Cinderella team pulled the upset and beat Liverpool Anfield Road stadium!
In that match , now the coach of the Trabzonspor and Former Turkish National team coach Senol Gunes was in goal for Trabzonspor.
That time, coach of the Trabzonspor was Ahmet Suat Ozyazici now Senol Gunes's Technical Advisor....
(Trabzonspor Team Chairman Sadri Sener ,Technical Advisor Ahmet Suat Ozyazici(coach of 1976 Trabzonspor Team) and coach Senol Gunes in the Anfiled Road Stadium)
It is so coincidence that Senol Gunes's career turn around with Trabzonspor, again!
Actually forgotten Senol Gunes was remembered by Trabzonspor and pulled away from his coaching job in the South Korea to coach to Trabzonspor in the late part of the last season!
He finally got the attention from his home town team ..........
His coming back to Trabzon was little late but well deserved!
That Senol Gunes, after winning the Turkish Cup, earned to play in the UEFA Europa League play-off round.
Who would thought, Senol Gunes will be the coach of Trabzonspor and they will face World class Liverpool again, after 34 years?
That is why this is got to be so special for Senol Gunes...
This does not happened all the time!
But, Trabzonspor lost to second leg match to Liverpool at home with 0-3 score...
34 years ago Things were much different in Trabzon and Turkey!
Then, Trabzonspor played most of their matches on the dirt fields....
They did not have grass fields!
A lot of things has changed since than......
Trabzonspor knows that the task is a difficult this time,,,,
Liverpool may be arguably the most difficult opponent in the Europa League playoff but Trabzonspor has established a good team under Senol Gunes.
They have a lot of good talents on the team......
My only worry with Trabzonspor is their young keeper Onur Kivrak!
This is going to be his biggest match in his career ....
He is good keeper but, can he handle the pressure of Anfield Road stadium?
That is the biggest question mark.....
If Trabzonspor wants to win or draw this match Onur Kivrak should play flawlessly.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
"BESIKTAS HAS ONE FOOT IN"
Turkey's star studded team Besiktas beat HJK Helsinki with 2-0 score in the first leg of their Europa League ties.
Besiktas had started 8 foreign players in this match!
There were only Turkish players on the first eleven.....
Goals from Roberto Hilbert and Ricardo Quaresma(q7) gave Besiktas an advantage heading into next week's second leg of their Europa League play-off against HJK Helsinki.
German Hilbert opened the scoring in the 35th minute and Portuguese international Quaresma followed up with a crucial second midway through the second half to wrap up a 2-0 win.
After the match , Besiktas coach Schuster said , "we could say we have the one foot in the Euro League"
Statidum: BJK Inonu
Referees: Ovidiu Alin Hategan, Octavian Sovre, Miklos Istvan Nagy (Romania)
Besiktas: Cenk, Ekrem, Zapotocny, Ferrari, Ismail, Hilbert, Tabata (min. 70 Necip), Ernst, Guti, Quaresma (min. 88 Nihat), Bobo (min. 82 Holosko)
HJK Helsinki: Wallen, Scapini, Magnusson, Ojala, Kansikas, Sorsa, Mattia (min. 75 Karkkaihen), Fowler, Bah, Westo (min. 69 Parikka), Pelvas (min. 46 Makela)
Scorers: Min. 35 Hilbert, min. 66 Quaresma (Besiktas)
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