VERY IMPORTANT MATCH FOR TURKEY AND HIDDINK ...TURKEY VS AUSTRIA

We know in this group Germany will will the top team...
But, we have three teams, Turkey, Belgium and Austria competing for the second place!

That is why this match on Tuesday is very important to Turkish National team and coach Guus Hiddink.


German National team is with perfect record after five matches with 15 points...

On Friday, Belgium beat Austria 2-o and shook up the stanting in the group A.

While Austria captures the second place with seven points in five matches, Belgium drop to third with same points and Turkey is on fourth with six points.

It is not known If Hiddink will use his experience players on Tuesady or use young guy like Cenk Tosun on top?

This will be Cenk Tosun's first International debut, if he plays on Tuesday.

FENERBAHCE CAPTURES FIRST PLACE IN TURKEY

"A NEW HOPE FOR TURKISH FOOTBALL AND GAZIANTEPSPOR...YOUNG GOAL SCORER ,CENK TOSUN....."


Fenerbahce retains the first place, thanks to Kayserispor, after they draw with Trabzonspor in Trabzon with a excellent match by both teams...3-3


Turkish Spor Toto Super League, will see a lot of like this, weekend until it finishes...

One other way to say this, this race on top and the bottom of the league ,will go down to the wire!


Every weekend and every match will be like a final match for the top teams...


AS Trabzonspor loss all their credits in hand they are evened up on top and fell behind

Fenerbahce for the first time this season....

If we remember,Trabzonspor had a huge gap between Fenerbahce at the end of first half...

While Fenerbahce won their all their matches in the last six weeks ,Trabzonspor struggle in the last six matches!


Looking at next eleven weeks, things are not going to be that easy for Trabzonspor...

Next weekend they face Besiktas in Istanbul and later on ,they have a really though, back to back matches in the 28th and 29th weekend, where they will face Galatasaray and than will host Bursaspor at home in the 29th weekend.

So, I just don't think, who will top the league ,just yet.... but, we know one thing, looking at Trabzonspor team and players are under a lot of stress!

First, they have to beat that, if they want to be the champions...

Turkish Spor Toto Super league saw a lot of excitement matches on Saturday and Sunday, this weekend..

The matches between Trabzonspor vs Kayseri and Sivasspor vs Manisaspor matches were great matches to watch...

Polish player Kamil Grosicki had a hat trick with Sivaspor uniform when they won their first match after 77 days!

Galatasaray losing to Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyespor was disaster for Hagi and Galatasaray team.

This season, Besiktas and Galatasaray the teams who spend tons of money on foreign name stars over the last two years, are most disappointed teams in Turkey..

Two teams share one goal this season, to win the Turkish Cup ,so they could play in the European competition ...

But, they will meet each other in the semi-final match....

So, on of the will not be in the European competition in the next season,,that is disgrace!

Speaking of Besiktas, they will close the 23th weekend on Monday, against Antalyaspor in Antalya.

Lastly, I want to say couple things about Gaziantepspor player Cenk Tosun.....

This kid knows how to score goal and kick the ball with both of his feet..

He came to Gazinatep in the winter season time and ever since he started playing he is scoring every match!

The two goals that he scored against Eskisehir this weekend were beautifully scored goals...

Cenk Tosun, who is not even twenty years old , was born in Germany and came from Eintracht Frankfurt farm team. Who also played for Germany's U-19 national team.

Earlier in the week , He chose Turkey to play in Turkish National team over Germany...

Kudos to Turkish National team and Gaziantepspor bring this young Turk to Turkish Super League.

Results......

25 Feb 2011
FT Bucaspor 0 : 2 Bursaspor

26 Feb 2011
FT Ankaragucu 2 : 4 Genclerbirligi
FT Buyuksehir 3 : 1 Galatasaray
FT Fenerbahce 2 : 0 Kasimpasa
FT Gaziantepspor 2 : 1 Eskisehirspor

27 Feb 2011
FT Karabukspor 2 : 1 Konyaspor
FT Sivasspor 4 : 2 Manisaspor
FT Trabzonspor 3 : 3 Kayserispor

Standings.....

1 Fenerbahce 23 16 3 4 54-24 51
2 Trabzonspor 23 15 6 2 49-19 51
3 Bursaspor 23 14 6 3 40-18 48
4 Kayserispor 23 12 7 4 31-20 43
5 Gaziantepspor 23 11 7 5 26-18 40
6 Buyuksehir 23 10 3 10 30-25 33
7 Besiktas 22 9 5 8 34-27 32
8 Eskisehirspor 23 8 8 7 25-25 32
9 Karabukspor 23 9 5 9 37-38 32
10 Galatasaray 23 10 2 11 26-29 32
11 Manisaspor 23 10 1 12 37-37 31
12 Genclerbirligi 23 7 6 10 25-35 27
13 Antalyaspor 22 6 7 9 21-30 25
14 Ankaragucu 23 6 7 10 31-41 25
15 Sivasspor 23 4 7 12 26-43 19
16 Bucaspor 23 4 6 13 17-34 18
17 Konyaspor 23 3 7 13 20-35 16
18 Kasimpasa 23 3 5 15 20-51 14


Top scores....

17 Alex.D.Sousa
13 E. Emenike
12 M. Niang
12 B. Yilmaz
10 J. Simpson

TRABZONSPOR BACK ON TOP IN TURKEY

Trabzonspor reclaim the top spot from Fenerbahce after away win against Manisaspor.

When the 21th weekend end it, last week, Trabzonspor was the top team in the Turkish Spor Toto Super League, but after Fenerbahce winning the derby match against Besiktas, with a huge score, they captured the first place for at least until Monday night.

On Friday,the third place Bursaspor, had a shot,but they got killed by tough team Gaziantep at home!

Thing are not going well in the Bursaspor team!

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The most important match of the week, was the derby match, between Besiktas and Fenerbahce.

Perhaps best team in the second half of the season in Turkey ,Fenerbahce who won their last five matches in the league, started the match strong and scored early goal by Necip Uysal's own goal in the fith minute.

See The Video.....

Fenerbahce was better team in the first half hour of the first half,,,,

Besiktas Keeper Rustu Rechber saved at least three of Fenerbahce's attacks after allowing the first goal!

He was little late coming out on the first goal....

This was Rustu's first match in the goal for long time ever since he was injured..

Another huge factor in the Fenerbahce's goal Fenerbahce defender Lugano, was guilty of offensive faul but Referee Cuneyt Cakir did not called it....

He actualy ,was late pulling cards in the first half of the match and that cost Besiktas maybe the match!


Here is why, in the first half, Fenerbahce defender Lugano clearly had two incedents, that he should have received, two yellow cards.

Besiktas player Ekrem Dag, also should it been card it,for dangers play....

Turkey's FIFA referee, Cuneyt Cakir, did not pulled the cards, in the first half and in the second half, things got out of his hands!

In the last fifteen minutes of the first half Besiktas was better team...

Fenerbahce made a huge mistake by settling back and also was unlucky...

One of the shot, hit the post....

In the 43th minute, Ekrem Dag scored and even the score and half finished with that score.

Besiktas started the second half, strong again and found the second goal in the 49th minute by Ibrahim Toraman's, surprise goal....

Besiktas was taking free kick just out side of the box, and the ball was deflected by Fenerbahce defender and went to wide open Ibrahim Toraman's foot!

Al he had to do is shoot the ball...and he scored....

Things were going good for Besiktas .....

They were ahead 2-1 in the match....

But things turned upside down, for Besiktas after the 60th minute....

Matteo Ferrari saw a red card after tangling with Lugano in the box and referee Cuneyt Cakir awarded penalty kick to Fenerbahce!

See The Video,,,,,,,,,

Lugana started first, but retalition was from Matteo Ferrari, so, referee saw that and gave him the red card!

Just before that, in Fenerbahce's attack ,Matteo Ferrari, wrestled Lugano and brought him down in the box, Cuneyt Cakir, did not call anything for that!

I think, this was make up time for that ,in my opinion...

These two players were doing this all game long,but Cuney Cakir, just didnt see it until that penalty kick...


ALEX.....ALEX........ALEX..............

So, That cost Besiktas the match but, great Fenerbahce Captain Alex De Souza came in the scene and scored three unanswered goals and beat Besktas in their nest with huge 2-4 score.

Alex De Souza,was the star of this match, along with Fenerbahce keeper Volkan Demirel...

If Volkan Demirel would not save the one one goal from Almadia it would have been 3-1,,,

That was huge save of the day, in my opinion...

Although Rustu saved a lot of goals but I think ,at that tine when the score was 2-1 Besiktas

winning, Volkan Demirel made a huge save.....

As far as Alex he was just smooth and smart.....

He won this match along with Volkan Demirel in my opinion....

I just hoped , a referee like Cuney Cakir, should have been more focused on the field to players!

He made a huge impact on this match both ways.....

He was kind of lost on the field on Sunday....


Besiktas had their expensive stars but Fenerbahce was better team at the finish....

As I been saying Fenerbahce is the best team in the last six weeks in Turkey,,,,,

They are playing like a team....

As far as Besiktas, they are way off, the title race and way behind Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor!

Their only hope is the Turkish Cup this season...

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Trabzonspor back on top.......

Trabzonspor beat the team that beat them in the first half, with a late goal by Alanzinho!

Manisapor was the only team that beat Trabzonspor ,in the first half of the season...

But, this time, Trabzonspor beat them in Manisa with the score of 1-2 ..

And they did it very late in the match,,,,,,,

Trabzonspor first goal was scored by Umut Bulut who scored his 99th goal in the Turkish League!

Manisaspor took the lead very early in the match with Jimmy Dixon's goal in the 14th minute.

But, just could not get the second goal to secure the score of the match and the second half of the match was all Trabzonspor....They played much better in the second half and won this very important match...

With this win, Trabzonspor still the top team in Turkey with 50 pints while Fenerbahce at second place with 48 points and Bursaspor on third with 45 points....

Bursaspor after going down at home to Gazinatepspor, fell behind Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor!

The teams like Kayserispor and Gaziantepspor, are the teams will make a push to the top in the coming weeks.

There is 12 more weeks to play in this league,that is wht the race on the top and the bottom will be hotter than hell in the Turkish Super League.

In the 23th weekend , perhaps most important match will take place in Trabzon when Trabzonspor will host Kayserispor on Sunday while Bursaspor travel to Buca.Izmir on Friday to play Bucaspor and Fenerbahce will have an easy match against bottom team Kasimpasa on Saturday.

Than again, you will never know what will happen in that match!

Stay tuned......


22th weekend results,,,,,

18 Feb 2011
FT Eskisehirspor 2 : 1 Sivasspor

19 Feb 2011
FT Bursaspor 1 : 4 Gaziantepspor
FT Galatasaray 1 : 0 Bucaspor
FT Genclerbirligi 2 : 3 Karabukspor
FT Kasimpasa 2 : 1 Ankaragucu

20 Feb 2011
FT Besiktas 2 : 4 Fenerbahce
FT Kayserispor 2 : 0 Antalyaspor
FT Konyaspor 0 : 0 Buyuksehir

21 Feb 2011
FT Manisaspor 1 : 2 Trabzonspor



STANDINGS.......

1 Trabzonspor 22 15 5 2 46-16 50
2 Fenerbahce 22 15 3 4 52-24 48
3 Bursaspor 22 13 6 3 38-18 45
4 Kayserispor 22 12 6 4 28-17 42
5 Gaziantepspor 22 10 7 5 24-17 37
6 Besiktas 22 9 5 8 34-27 32
7 Eskisehirspor 22 8 8 6 24-23 32
8 Galatasaray 22 10 2 10 25-26 32
9 Manisaspor 22 10 1 11 35-33 31
10 Buyuksehir 22 9 3 10 27-24 30
11 Karabukspor 22 8 5 9 35-37 29
12 Ankaragucu 22 6 7 9 29-37 25
13 Antalyaspor 22 6 7 9 21-30 25
14 Genclerbirligi 22 6 6 10 21-33 24
15 Bucaspor 22 4 6 12 17-32 18
16 Konyaspor 22 3 7 12 19-33 16
17 Sivasspor 22 3 7 12 22-41 16
18 Kasimpasa 22 3 5 14 20-49 14


23TH WEEKEND MATCHES........

25 Feb 2011
19:00 CET Bucaspor ? : ? Bursaspor

26 Feb 2011
13:00 CET Ankaragucu ? : ? Genclerbirligi
15:00 CET Buyuksehir ? : ? Galatasaray
16:00 CET Gaziantepspor ? : ? Eskisehirspor
18:00 CET Fenerbahce ? : ? Kasimpasa

27 Feb 2011
13:00 CET Karabukspor ? : ? Konyaspor
16:00 CET Sivasspor ? : ? Manisaspor
18:00 CET Trabzonspor ? : ? Kayserispor

28 Feb 2011
19:00 CET Antalyaspor ? : ? Besiktas

SATURDAY WRAP-UP AND SUNDAY DERBY MATCH BETWEEN BESIKTAS AND FENERBAHCE

Saturday matches started with a surprise scores and almost ended with a surprise score too!

In the early matches, while last place team Kasimpasa beat Ankaragucu , the last year champions Bursaspor lost at home against one of the best teams in the last six weeks!

The last match of the Saturday, could it been the biggest upset of the day,if Bucaspor would it score on the chances that they wasted...

But, Galatasaray scored on a dead ball and won the match in the last 14 minutes of the match....

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Bursaspor's hopes of defending their Turkish Super League title suffered a huge blow as they went down 4-1 at home to Gaziantepspor.

Goals from Wagner and Yalcin Ayhan had Gaziantepspor two up before Dany Nounkeu put through his own net to give the champions cause for optimism at the break.

However, Cenk Tosun bagged a second-half brace to seal an emphatic away win which consolidated fifth spot for Gaziantepspor and kept Bursaspor third - two points behind leaders Trabzonspor, having played a game more.

Brrsaspor's American player Jozy Altidore .came out of the match, around thirty minute ,because of ankle injury...

Latest news is, he is okay and will be ready for next match on Friday against Bucasspor in Izmir.

Juan Culio's strike 14 minutes from time lifted Galatasaray to sixth with a 1-0 home win over Bucaspor.

Bucaspor missed and wasted a lot of chances, before Galatasaray scored the only goal in this match!

Elsewhere,Ilhan Parlak's 89th-minute goal gave Karabukspor a dramatic 3-2 win at struggling Genclerbirligi.

Parlak's first-half penalty and substitute Muhammed Ozdin's strike four minutes after half-time had turned the game in Karabukspor's favour after Joachim Mununga's early opener.



Last place team Kasimpasa boosted their survival aspirations by picking up only their third win of the season and second back to back win at home against Ankaragucu.2-1,

Juan Robledo and Halil Colak were the men on target for Kasimpasa, w Fatih Tekke scored the Ankaragucu's goal by penalty kick.



COULD FENERBAHCE CAPTURE THE FIRST PLACE ON SUNDAY?

THE DERBY MATCH.....BESIKTAS VS FENERBAHCE.......

On Saturday, Bursaspor had that chance but could not do it......

Now, Fenerbahce have that chance on Sunday....

They have to do it hard way....beating Besiktas at Inonu stadium in front of Besiktas fans!

Besiktas has all kinds of problems...

On the other hand the best team in the last weeks is Fenerbahce....

They are playing like a team and they are focused....

Besiktas have a big issue in goal too...

We don't know who will be in goal....

Rustu Recber , might play in this match....

He has not played in goal for a long time and this is not good for Besiktas!

Fenerbahce has cut a nine-point deficit with leader Trabzonspor to just two points and looks like, heavy contender for the title, now...

On the other hand, Besiktas,are sixth and 15 points behind Trabzonspor in the league!

A win for Fenerbahce, will make them, number one team in the league, until Monday ,that when Trabzonspor visits Manisaspor.....

Under fire, Besiktas coach Bernd Schuster and Besiktas fans are in feud to because of his remarks about Besiktas fans!

After the huge lost against Dynamo Kiev in Istanbul he said "But I don’t care about the shouts, protests, whatever. If anybody is bothered by this, they shouldn’t come here, they should go home."

That got, Besiktas fans really mad.....

Also on Sunday, Konyaspor hosts Istanbul BuyukSehir and Kayserispor wil be home against Antalya.

Istanbul BuyukSehir could move up if they win this match and Kayserispor also needs to win their match too...


If Besiktas lose on Sunday and Manisaspor wins against Trabzon on Monday , we might just see Besiktas going down to seventh or eight place!





1 Trabzonspor 21 14 5 2 44-15 47
2 Fenerbahce 21 14 3 4 48-22 45
3 Bursaspor 22 13 6 3 38-18 45
4 Kayserispor 21 11 6 4 26-17 39
5 Gaziantepspor 22 10 7 5 24-17 37
6 Besiktas 21 9 5 7 32-23 32
7 Eskisehirspor 22 8 8 6 24-23 32
8 Galatasaray 22 10 2 10 25-26 32
9 Manisaspor 21 10 1 10 34-31 31
10 Buyuksehir 21 9 2 10 27-24 29
11 Karabukspor 22 8 5 9 35-37 29
12 Antalyaspor 21 6 7 8 21-28 25
13 Ankaragucu 22 6 7 9 29-37 25
14 Genclerbirligi 22 6 6 10 21-33 24
15 Bucaspor 22 4 6 12 17-32 18
16 Sivasspor 22 3 7 12 22-41 16
17 Konyaspor 21 3 6 12 19-33 15
18 Kasimpasa 22 3 5 14 20-49 14

Bursaspor loses unexpectedly......

Bursaspor loses unexpectedly......
By Emre KARATAS

Bursaspor hosted Gaziantepspor but they gained an unexpexted result as G.Antep scored four goals while Bursaspor scored only one.

Altidore was replaced with a badly twisted ankle in the first half which ruined the manager Ertugrul Saglam's game plan early in the game.

G.Antep scored the first goal to tell the truth, with a counter attack while doing nothing but defending their own half. Bursaspor lost their concentration for several minutes before they conceded the goal number two.

Before the first half ended Bursaspor got their only goal as a G.Antep defender found his own net. The first half ended 2-1.

Into the second half, as Bursaspor was looking for the equalizer they conceded two more unfortunate goals just because the defenders were not doing any good at all.

Proven once again, rushing for an early goal in soccer could turn things upside down with bad memories.

By the way their third position in the table is in secure as there is a six point deficit with Kayserispor.

Now Bursaspor is looking forward to having the next games to compensate points they missed yesterday.

NO HOPE FOR BESIKTAS IN EUROPA LEAGUE!

Instead of Besiktas, Dynamo Kiev put a foot in the last 16 of the Europa League as they claimed a comfortable 4-1 win in the first leg match.

Andriy Shevchenko setup and goal and then scored one in his 84-minutes appearance as Dynamo Kiev used a powerful second half to beat Besiktas 4-1 in Europa League action on Thursday.

Shevchenko, the former AC Milan and Chelsea forward, assisted Ognjen Vukojevic to score the go ahead goal for Dynamo Kiev in the 27th minute, before getting on the score sheet himself five minutes into the second half.

Besiktas winger Ricardo Quaresma got the lone striker for the hosts when netted the equalising goal in the 37th minute.


Meanwhile, besides Vukojevic and Shevchenko – Dynamo Kiev also got goals from Ayila Yussuf in the 56th minute and a late penalty from Oleg Gusev.

To make matters worse for Besiktas, Quaresma was sent off on the final whistle for violent conduct.

Teams:

Besiktas Arikan, Hilbert, Ferrari, Sivok, Koybasi, Quaresma, Guti, Aurelio (Uysal 80), Ernst (Guven 56),Nobre (Hugo Almeida 69), Bobo.

Subs Not Used: Recber, Dag, Toraman, Bayramoglu.

Sent Off: Quaresma (90).

Booked: Sivok, Quaresma, Arikan.

Goals: Quaresma 37.

Dynamo Kiev Shovkovskiy, Mykhalyk (Popov 73), Yussuf, Danilo Silva, Leandro Almeida, Gusev, Vukojevic,Yarmolenko (Garmash 88), Milevskiy, Eremenko,Shevchenko (Kravets 84).

Subs Not Used: Koval, Betao, Ninkovic, Zozulya.

Booked: Shevchenko.

Goals: Vukojevic 27, Shevchenko 50, Yussuf 57, Gusev 90 pen.

Att: 27,000

Ref: Pedro Proenca (Portugal).

BESIKTAS HOST DYNOMO KYIV IN ISTANBUL,TURKEY

Besiktas set to host Ukraine's Dynamo Kyiv on Thursday in the first leg game in the round of 32 at the UEFA Europa League.


The game at Istanbul's Fiyapi Inonu Stadium will kick-off at 8:00 p.m. Turkish local time.(1:00 PM. ET)

Besiktas finished second in their group at the UEFA Europa League.

BESIKTAS SACK VETERAN SKIPPER IBRAHIM UZULMEZ....

THE REASON...PUNCHING HIS TEAMMATE!

Besiktas have taken the stunning step of sacking captain Ibrahim Uzulmez ahead of their Europa League last-32 tie at home to Dynamo Kiev on Thursday.

The move came following an emergency meeting after club's board of meeting ,looked into the events which unfolded during half-time of Sunday's 1-0 defeat to Ankaragucu.


Ibrahim Uzulmez,punched Ibrahim Toraman after both had become embroiled in an argument, witnessed by coach Bernd Schuster.


This is not the first time happened ,they also exchanged blows at a pre-season training camp in Austria in 2008.

Besiktas Club said "statement read: "Upon learning of the unsportsmanlike conduct he displayed

in the dressing room during the half-time interval of this week's match against Ankaragucu,

our executive board held an emergency meeting and, in line with coaching staff recommendations, unanimously decided to terminate player Ibrahim Uzulmez's contract with immediate effect."

BIG PROBLEM,,,, INJURIES FOR BESIKTAS!

Goalkeeper Cenk Gonen with a broken finger and defender Ersan Gulum with a season-ending knee ligament injury.

As far as Dynamo, this will be their first since the Ukrainian League shut down for its winter break two months ago, and the first for new head coach Yuri Semin.


The winners of this clash in two matches ,will go on to face either Manchester City or Aris Thessaloniki in the last 16.

So, this is very important match for Besiktas tonight at home...

They must win with a clear and big score...