Germany v Turkey.. Home and Home Match!

They are both at six points after two matches in 2012 European Championship Qualifying Group A standings...


Both teams have their work cut out for them!

Germany and Turkey missing very important players...

Although Germany will play the match in Germany its is going to feel like home for Turkish National team with thirty thousand Turkish - Germans who lives and works in Germany!


That is why, this match will be home and home for both team,,,,,


What is so interesting about this match is ,you have German born players playing for Turkey and German born Turkish player, playing for Germany......

Altintop's and Nuri Sahin for Turkey and Mesut Ozil for Germany!


That is why, this match is so unique ...

The last world cup sensation Mesut Ozil, is the talk of Turkey and Germany this week!


Midfielder Toni Kroos will most likely partner with Sami Khedira instead of Bastian Schweinsteiger for Germany.

On the other hand Arda Turan replacement will be Nuru Sahin or Tuncay Sanli...


Arda Turan's cost a big controversy between Galatasaray and Turkish National team in Turkey,,,


Galatasaray team claimed that Arda was injured and should never have called up for National team duty!



Germany leads the group from Turkey on goal difference.


Speaking to the media Turkish National team coach Hiddink said,"Germany always qualifies for big tournaments, we don't know it any other way, and it is the favorite," Hiddink said. "But we must show that it is our aim to be first in the group. We cannot underestimate Austria either - the road is still long."


On the other hand , German coach Low is cautious about Turkey match!

Her said "The Turks are technically strong - if you let them play, they're dangerous."


The last meeting between Germany and Turkey took place at the semi-final stage of Euro 2008..

Could this be the revenge?

On Friday, Germany face Turkey in a Euro 2012 qualifying match....

The scene will be awesome....Turkish and German flags will fly high over Berlin who ever wins this match.

In case of a draw , it will be a huge celebration for Turkish fans !


Lastly, this match will be historic for Turkey and Turkish people living in Germany!

The third generation German born Turkish kid Mesut Ozil will play against Turkey for the first time in Germany..


The match will start on Friday at 22;30 Turkey Time( 2;30 PM ET).

Turkish National team arrived in Germany

Photo: TFF


Turkish National soccer team arrived in Germany and they did their first practice session in Babelberg, Germany.


Turkish Football Federation officials watched the practice too....



Turkish soccer fans living in Germany greeted Turkish National team at Berlin airport with waving Turkish flags in their hand,,,


Photo: AP


Turkish soccer fans mobbed the airport to great the national team players...

Turkish National team will hold a practice in same town on Tuesday too...



They will face Germany in Berlin on October 8th......

According to latest report there will be close to thirty thousand Turkish soccer fans will watch this very important match in Berlin.......


All 74,244 tickets for the match at the Olympic Stadium have been sold, with German chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan set to attend.

Around 30,000 Turkey supporters are expected in Berlin on Friday for their Euro 2012 qualifier against Germany, the German Football Federation (DFB) says.






Photo: TFF

TURKEY GETTING READY FOR GERMANY

Guus Hiddink's Turkish National team players joined the camp after the end of seventh weekend matches,in Istanbul and they will leave on Monday from Istanbul to Germany.


Turkey will play against Germany on October 8th and than four days later, they will take on Azerbaijan in Azerbaijan.

So, there is a very difficult two road matches, for Hiddink's boys...



Once the team lands in Germany, the squad will have a training camp in a town near the city of Berlin until Oct. 7.


Here is the players names Guus Hiddink called up for the National duty.....



Goalkeepers:

Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahçe), Hakan Arıkan, Cenk Gönen (Beşiktaş), Onur Recep Kıvrak (Trabzonspor).

Defenders:

Gökhan Gönül (Fenerbahçe), Sabri Sarıoğlu, Servet Çetin, Hakan Kadir Balta (Galatasaray), Ömer Erdoğan (Bursaspor), İbrahim Toraman, İsmail Köybaşı (Beşiktaş), Ceyhun Gülselam (Trabzonspor).

Midfielders:

Hamit Altıntop (Bayern Münih), Mehmet Aurelio, Necip Uysal (Beşiktaş), Selçuk Şahin, Emre Belözoğlu, Özer Hurmacı (Fenerbahçe), Nuri Şahin (Borussia Dortmund), Selçuk İnan (Trabzonspor), Arda Turan (Galatasaray).

Forwards:
Tuncay Şanlı (Stoke City), Halil Altıntop (Eintracht Frankfurt), Semih Şentürk (Fenerbahçe), Mevlüt Erdinç (Paris Saint Germain), Nihat Kahveci (Beşiktaş), Sercan Yıldırım (Bursaspor).

Turkish Super League Review, Week: 7

Who would it thought Trabzonspor would move to the second place in the Turkish Super League this weekend?



"A DOG RACE" ON THE TOP OF THE TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE.......

On Friday Galatasay losing against Karabuk and Saturday Kayseri and Fenerbahce winning and on Sunday, Trabzon beating Besiktas at home, cost all kinds of movement, on top of the Turkish Super League.,.,..

Turkish Super League leader Bursaspor, losing points in Istanbul against Buyuksehir, did close the gap between with other teams!


The race on top ,became a dog race for a lot of teams in Turkey.....


Bursaspor is the only team in Turkish Super League has not lost a match yet...

They still have the perfect record after seven matches....

But, a loss of points, close the gap , although, they might have three points, coming from suspending match against Gaziantep.

Turkish Football Federation will make a decision soon on this matter ,,,,


Looking at the seventh weekend, Trabzonspor and Fenerbahce teams were the biggest movers and shakers in the league!

Trabzonspor and Fenerbahce surpass their rivals Besiktas and Galatasaray in the standings after a very important wins....



On the bottom of the league, there are two teams hasn't wi=on a match yet..

Eskisehir and Kasimpasa is struggling very bad in the league!

After seventh week, the gap between first place and tenth place teams are so close...

The second place Trabzon and third place Kayseri dead luck with 14 points while Fenerbahce,Besiktas , Karabuk all at 13 points and Galatasaray 12, Antalya with 11, Ankaragucu with 10 and tenth place Buyuksehir with ten points,,,,,,,

The gap is getting narrower on top as we go further in the league and will get narrower in the future...

Bursaspor finished the seventh week on top with 16 points and three to be added!



This coming weekend there wont be any matches in the Turkish Super league because of the National team match...

Turkish National team will play against German National team in Berlin, Germany on October 8th, Saturday.


Here is the total scores from this weekend...

01 Oct 2010
FT Bucaspor 0 : 0 Eskisehirspor
FT Karabukspor 2 : 1 Galatasaray
02 Oct 2010
FT Ankaragucu 4 : 1 Konyaspor
FT Fenerbahce 3 : 0 Genclerbirligi
FT Manisaspor 0 : 1 Kayserispor
03 Oct 2010
FT Antalyaspor 3 : 1 Kasimpasa
FT Buyuksehir 0 : 0 Bursaspor
FT Sivasspor 1 : 1 Gaziantepspor
FT Trabzonspor 1 : 0 Besiktas


Standings.......

1 Bursaspor 6 5 1 0 8-1 16
2 Trabzonspor 7 4 2 1 13-6 14
3 Kayserispor 7 4 2 1 8-3 14
4 Fenerbahce 7 4 1 2 20-10 13
5 Besiktas 7 4 1 2 12-6 13
6 Karabukspor 7 4 1 2 12-10 13
7 Galatasaray 7 4 0 3 10-8 12
8 Antalyaspor 7 3 2 2 9-10 11
9 Ankaragucu 7 3 1 3 11-9 10
10 Buyuksehir 7 3 1 3 8-8 10
11 Genclerbirligi 7 2 2 3 4-10 8
12 Gaziantepspor 6 1 4 1 4-4 7
13 Bucaspor 7 1 3 3 4-5 6
14 Manisaspor 7 2 0 5 10-13 6
15 Konyaspor 7 1 3 3 8-12 6
16 Sivasspor 7 1 3 3 6-15 6
17 Eskisehirspor 7 0 3 4 4-9 3
18 Kasimpasa 7 0 2 5 5-17 2

GALATASARAY WENT DOWN IN KARABUK!

Karabukspor climbed to third place in the Turkish Spor Toto Super League as they beat Galatasaray 2-1.


Karbukspor stunned Galatasaray by taking a second-minute lead, Florin Cernat tucking away a penalty, and they pulled two goals clear after 11 minutes when Hakan Ozmert drilled home from 15 yards with the aid of a major deflection.

Galatasaray, who began the match in third place but now drop to fourth, pulled a goal back after 74 minutes when Baris Ozbek struck.

Second-bottom Eskisehirspor remain without a win after seven matches, drawing 0-0 away to Bucaspor in Friday'sother match.



On Saturday, In the early match Kayserispor could capture the second place from Besiktas if they win in Manisa...

Manissspor will host Kayserispor at home. Manisa is coming off a back to back two wins.

Kayserispor has eleven points going in to this match on Saturday..

In the two lates matches on Saturday, Ankaragucu will host Konyaspor in Ankara and Fenerbahce will be home against Gneclerbirligi.

If Fenerbahce wins on Saturday they will even the points with Besiktas and Karabukspor with 13 points!


Galatasaray after the loss against Karabukspor will be behind Karabuk in the standings. Galatasaray has 12 points after the seventh week....

On Sunday, League leader Bursaspor and second place Besiktas will have reay though matches...

Bursaspor will face Buyuksehir in Istanbul and Besiktas will be in Trabzon...

Besiktas and Trabzon will shout for win in this match..The winner will earns three golden points in the league...

Here is the top of the league looks like before the Saturday and Sunday matches....

Bursaspor with 13 points and plus one game in the bank, Besiktas with 13,Karabuk with 13 on third, Galatasaray on fourth with 12,Trabzonspor on fifth with 11 and Kayserispor also with 11 points on sixth.

Seventh place Fenerbahce and eight place Buyuksehir could move in the standing if they win their matches this weekend....

TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE WEEK: 7 ,PREVIEW

After European matches in the middle of the week for Besiktas and Bursasspor, attentions once again, turn to the Turkish Spor Toto Super League,,,


The seventh weekend will take a start with two matches on Friday ...


Izmir's only team in The Turkish Super League, Bucaspor will host Eskisehirspor at home.


And Turkish Giant's Galatasaray will travel to Karabuk to play very offensive mind team Karabukspor.



Frank Rijkaard's Galatasaray team has been moving in the standings with a win today they could reach league leader Bursaspor at 15 points....

As I was writing my blog, I just heard, Franks Rijaard's dear Father pass the way.

My condolences goes out tho the Frank Rijkaard family and Galatasaray club and their fans..



On Saturday, there are three matches...


Out of three the most important match is between Fenerbahce and Genclerbirligi..

With a win Fenerbahce also could move up in the league standings,,


Also on Saturday, Manisa will be home against Kayseri and Ankaragucu will host Konyaspor.


On Sunday, the match of the week will take place in Trabzon ,Turkey...

Besiktas will travel to Trabzon after beating Rapid Wien in the Europa League match.


But they won't have their star player Quarizma...

On the other hand Trabzonspor is struggling in the last two weeks..

This will be a huge match for both teams...

A winner will have a big advantage in the standing.


On the other hand, the leaders of Turkish Super League, Bursaspor will travel to Istanbul to play Istanbul Buyuksehir.

Buyuksehir is coming off a huge loss to Galatasaray ...

And Bursaspor is little bit of tired mentally after losing their second match in the Champions League...

Buyuksehir is the the team gave a trouble to Bursa in the second half of the last season!


Which almost cost them the championship.....

Also , with that loss, they demolish the gap between Fenerbahce...

So, a loss in Istanbul for Bursaspor could just do that again, this time early in the season.. a win will separate them from the others in the league....

Elsewhere on Sunday, Sivasspor will host Gaziantep and Antalyaspor will be home against Kasimpasa.

The winners will simile and the losers will be going home with a sour face this weekend!

Lastly, there will be a movement on top of the league in my opinion...



See you next week....



01 Oct 2010
19:00 CET Bucaspor ? : ? Eskisehirspor
19:00 CET Karabukspor ? : ? Galatasaray

02 Oct 2010
14:30 CET Manisaspor ? : ? Kayserispor
18:00 CET Ankaragucu ? : ? Konyaspor
18:00 CET Fenerbahce ? : ? Genclerbirligi

03 Oct 2010
14:30 CET Buyuksehir ? : ? Bursaspor
14:30 CET Sivasspor ? : ? Gaziantepspor
18:00 CET Antalyaspor ? : ? Kasimpasa
18:00 CET Trabzonspor ? : ? Besiktas

Besiktas too strong for Rapid Wien

Besiktas came from behind to record a second successive win in Europa League Group L with a 2-1 victory over Rapid Wien.

Young Turkish players who plays for Rapid,Veli Kavlak, gave Rapid Vienna the lead but Filip Holosko - a first-half substitute for the injured Ricardo Quaresma - quickly equalised.

And Bobo grabbed the winner for Besiktas - who won their first game against CSKA Sofia courtesy of a last-minute goal - were victorious once more.

Besiktas started the brighter and Fabian Ernst shot over before Quaresma hit the upright with a curling effort from the left of the penalty area.

Stefan Hoffman skied Rapid's first effort over the bar and Christopher Trimmel followed suit before Quaresma's evening was ended early by injury, Holosko taking his place in the 32nd minute.

The newcomer's corner saw Matteo Ferrari draw a sharp save from Raimund Hedl, who then held Rodrigo Tabata's 25-yard effort.

Rapid picked up the pace at the start of the second period, with Atdhe Nuhiu firing wide before Kavlak broke the deadlock.

Yasin Pehlivan's cross was thumped home by his midfield colleague to give the hosts the advantage in the 51st minute - and Nuhiu almost added a second when his effort was punched clear by goalkeeper Hakan Arikan.

But, as it transpired, the lead would last just four minutes as Holosko found the net with a low left-footed finish from the left side of the box - and he hit the bar moments later as Besiktas pressed forward.

Nuhiu headed over at the other end, but Besiktas soon had the lead as Rodrigo Tabata played in Bobo, who finished coolly in the 64th minute.

Rapid introduced veteran striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink in their search for an equaliser and Hoffman's free-kick was headed over by Hamdi Salihi before Arikan saved from the Dutchman's header.

But Rapid were unable to get back on terms as Besiktas joined Porto with a perfect six-point record ahead of the two teams' upcoming double-header.


Latest news on Quaresma, he definitely wont play agaisnt Trabzonspor this weekend .

According to reports he could be out with injury for three to four weeks,,,,,