TURKEY WAS LUCKY AGAINST BELGIUM 1-1

The draw hands the initiative to Turkey, who are one point behind second-placed Belgium in Group A, but who also have a game in hand.

It might have been different had Witsel not blazed over the bar with a 75th-minute penalty kick.


Marwin Ogunjimi had given Belgium an early lead, Turkey answered with Burak Yilmaz in the 22nd minute, to even the score 1-1

Turkey enjoyed a spell of dominance, but poor shooting meant that Simon Mignolet was not tested.

Servet Cetin had a good chance early in the second half, but headed over from a corner.

With the goalkeepers having easily dealt with all that was sent their way, Belgium were handed the chance to make a breakthrough when Arda Turan brought down Dries Mertens in the 73rd minute.

But Witsel went for power over accuracy with his penalty and watched it sail into the stands.

Moments later, Mertens brought a fine save out of Demirel before Chadli wasted a pair of chances and Turkey held out for a point.

Hiddinks's Turkey was missing his top two Real Madrid-bound stars, Nuri Sahin from German champion Borussia Dortmund and Hamit Altintop from Bayern Munich.

After the match Hiddink said "We were lucky that is was missed, We can be happy with the result."

HIDDINK MIGHT LEAVE....

Hiddink was also asked about his futer with Turkish National Team and Chelsea.
He said, "we'll see.There is nothing certain,"

Hiddink insisted only one thing was certain as of next week. He was going on holiday, happy to see how his future would play out.

FENERBAHCE CHAMPIONS OF TURKEY

Fenerbahce clinched their 18th Turkish league title with a 4-3 win over Sivasspor on Sunday.

Trabzonspor, the , won 4-0 away to Karabukspor to also finish on 82 points but Fenerbahce became champions due to a superior record in matches between the two clubs this season.

Playing in Sivas, Andre Santos put Fenerbahce ahead in the sixth minute. Selcuk Sahin restored the lead near the end of the first half after Jakup Navratil had equalized.

Second-half goals from Brazilian captain Alex and Joseph Yobo sealed the victory for the visitors, despite Erman Kilic pulling two goals back.

TURKISH CUP GOES TO BESIKTAS...

Besikas won the Turkish Cup after beating Istanbul Buyuksehir in a dramatic way..

They won the match, after playing more than two hours of soccer on Wendsday night, in Kayseri,Kadir Has stadium.....

IN the normal time the match ended 2-2 and in the two 15 minutes over time period both sides could not score goal and penalty shootout took place..


Besiktas started the match strong and scored the first goal by Ricardo Quaresma in the 33th minute...

In the second half Buyuksehir was attacking and Besiktas player Mehmet Aurelio made a fullish faul and Buyuksehir earned penalty kick!

Former Besiktas player Ibrahim Akin took the PK and scored....

After that Besiktas went in shocking mode and Buyuksehir found them selfs up ...

Former Fenerbahce player Gokhan Unal scored the second goal for Buyuksehir,,,

But Besiktas came back and score the tying second goal...

Tomas Sivok headed the nice pass from Fernandes...

In the over time period there were no goals but a couple of good chances fro both sides...


At the Penalty shootout, The woodwork was Besiktas best friend in the Penalty shootout!

Two of the Buyuksehir's shots hit the woodwork...

Besiktas converted four penalties and two Buyuksehir players missed....

So, Besiktas, after dramatic win , claim the fourth Turkish Cup in the past six years..

And they secured a place in Europa league next season...


After the match Besiktas match BOBO said he will not wear Besiktas uniform next season.

And, as the celebrations were going on, Guti, who was writing notes on his twitter account ,saying " I Love Besiktas" and " I will stay with Besiktas"

After disappointed season in the Turkish Super League winning the Turkish Cup gave Besiktas something to cheer.

WATCH TURKISH CUP FINAL, BETWEEN BESIKTAS AND ISTANBUL BB, LIVE....

Ziraat Turkish Cup final match will be played between Besiktas and Istanbul BB, in Kayseri, tonight at 20;00 local Turkey time(13:00 ET )


Besiktas who had very disappointed season in the Turkish Super League will try to win the Turkish cup tonight.

Star- studded , Besiktas team looks better on the paper, but,we can not forget that Istanbul Buyuksehir is very successful against Besiktas!

Besiktas won the Turkish cup eight time and played in the Turkish Cup final match for six times..

On the other hand Istanbul Buyuksehir never won the Turkish Cup....

Buyuksehir player Filip Holosko, who is on loan from Besiktas, will not be play in this match.

The match will be broadcast by Turkish TRT 1 TV .....

You could watch Ziraat Turkish Cup final match live by clicking the link here...http://www.trt.net.tr/Canli/canli.aspx?kanal=TV1&slv=0

Bursaspor vs Besiktas match called off by Turkish football federation due to fan violence

This has to be the darkest day in Turkish Football!

A couple hundred hooligans. did a biggest damage, to their own team Bursa and Turkish football..


Before the Bursa vs Besiktas match, these hooligans, took the streets and clash with the police

The scene,out side of the stadium was just ugly!


While this was happening, there were fans in the stadium, in the stands, waiting comely for the match...


There were 29 people injured in this clash...

Polis was preventing Bursaspor hooligans, attacking Besiktas fans....


Turkish Football Federation has decided to cancelled the match....

They will not play this match again...

It looks like, Bursa will forfeit the match 3-0 , and will get much more sanctions by Turkish football federation...

THE TITLE CHASE GOES ON IN THE TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE

FENERBAHCE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT,.,,,,

The title chase in Turkey, goes on after Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor won their matches in the 31th weekend.

There are three more matches, to be played....

Even though Trabzonspor wins all their last three matches, they have to wait for Fenerbhace to lose points in the coming weekends.

They are, both at 73 points ....

But, Fenerbahce is better in the head to head competition ....

Both of the team were at home last weekend as they won their match..

Fenerbahce passed Istanbul Buyuksehir with no resisting from Buyuksehir as they beat them with two first half goals!


Miroslav Stoch ,score the first goal in the second minute of the match and Alex De Souza scored the second goal in the closing minutes of the first half,,,,

Top scorer in the Turkish Super League, Alez De Souza, scored his second 22th goal in this match..



On the other hand, the other tittle chaser, Trabzponspor , who was complaining last weekend, about the referee's, handed, very critical call in favored of them!

Trabzonspor beat, 10-man Gazinatep, at home, with three first half, goals....

In the 22th minute of the match, Cuneyt Cakir who is FIFA batch referee, blew it and gave PK , to Trabzonspor and gave a red card to Gaziantep defender Dany!

Burak Yilmaz, took the penalty kick and scored the first goal in the match,,,,,,

Later, Polish player Pawel Brozek scored the second goal with nice header goal and Burak Yilmaz scored his second and Trabzonspor third goal...


We could say, Trabzonspor after leading this league by nine points at the half, gave the driver's seat to Fenerbahce!

To get that seat, first, they have to win their all remaining matches and pray, one of the Fenerbahce opponents ,steel point or points from Fenebshce....

Both of the team will play their 32th weekend matches on Sunday at the same game time...


Both of them, will be play in the away matches....

Fener will visit Karabuk while Trabzon will travel to Izmir to face ,Buca....

On the paper, Fenerbahce's match is more harder but than against we should not forget, what Fenerbahce gone through in Izmir against Bucaspor!

The tittle chase, will go on in Turkey and it will be neck and neck on race!

See you next time...

31th weekend results...

9 Apr 2011
FT Sivasspor 1 : 1 Genclerbirligi
30 Apr 2011
FT Antalyaspor 3 : 3 Bucaspor
FT Besiktas 2 : 0 Galatasaray
FT Kasimpasa 2 : 2 Konyaspor
01 May 2011
FT Fenerbahce 2 : 0 Buyuksehir
FT Kayserispor 1 : 0 Bursaspor
FT Manisaspor 3 : 1 Eskisehirspor
FT Trabzonspor 3 : 0 Gaziantepspor
02 May 2011
FT Ankaragucu 0 : 0 Karabukspor


32th weekend matches.....


06 May 2011
19:00 CET Eskisehirspor ? : ? Kayserispor
07 May 2011
15:00 CET Buyuksehir ? : ? Antalyaspor
19:00 CET Bursaspor ? : ? Besiktas
19:00 CET Gaziantepspor ? : ? Manisaspor
08 May 2011
15:00 CET Genclerbirligi ? : ? Konyaspor
19:00 CET Bucaspor ? : ? Trabzonspor
19:00 CET Karabukspor ? : ? Fenerbahce
19:00 CET Sivasspor ? : ? Ankaragucu
09 May 2011
19:00 CET Galatasaray ? : ? Kasimpasa


Standings......

1 Fenerbahce 31 23 4 4 73-31 73
2 Trabzonspor 31 22 7 2 60-21 73
3 Bursaspor 31 15 10 6 46-26 55
4 Gaziantepspor 31 15 7 9 41-32 52
5 Besiktas 31 13 8 10 47-35 47
6 Kayserispor 31 13 8 10 39-38 47
7 Eskisehirspor 31 11 11 9 35-35 44
8 Karabukspor 31 11 8 12 44-47 41
9 Buyuksehir 31 12 4 15 38-41 40
10 Ankaragucu 31 10 10 11 49-52 40
11 Manisaspor 31 12 3 16 45-48 39
12 Antalyaspor 31 9 11 11 36-43 38
13 Genclerbirligi 31 9 10 12 39-46 37
14 Galatasaray 31 11 4 16 33-43 37
15 Sivasspor 31 8 9 14 38-51 33
16 Bucaspor 31 6 7 18 31-56 25
17 Konyaspor 31 4 11 16 26-44 23
18 Kasimpasa 31 5 8 18 30-61 23

CRUNCH TIME, AS FENERBAHCE CAPTURES THE TOP SPOT, IN TURKEY

PHOTO CREDIT..(AA)

Being in front, with nine points at the end of the first half of the season, than giving up the first place, to Fenerbahce, in the 24th weekend, than recapturing it, at the 27th weekend ,now in the 30th weekend, once again, giving it back to Fenerbahce !

That is what exactly Trabzonspor, did!

It has been, sea-saw and very frustrated second half ...

Just when they were two points ahead, they could not put the ball in the back of the net in Eskisehir on Friday in the opening match of 30th weekend!

They knew, they had to win the match but , they showed no sign of quest!

After a draw in Eskisehir, they gave a chance once more time to Fenerbahce ,again...

Trabzonspor is very stressed out team starting with their coaching staff....

They better shape up ...


Otherwise, Fenerbahce could well be the next Champions on their mistakes!

On the other hand Fenerbahce, won it with miracle score and came back from 3-1 deficit to beat Buca in Izmir with 3-5 score!


Being overconfidence and looking down to opponent,almost cost the match for Fenerbahce!

No Fenerbahce fans, were happy, until 60th minute of the match.....

After very controversial penalty kick call by referee , Fenerbahce saw the light!

Until that moment Fenrbahce was disaster as a team....

Only good thing was Emre's goal....

Thanks to huge mistake by Buca defender, who passed the ball to Alex , like Alex was his teammate and Alex gave a pass to Emre and Emre send it in from 30 yards out!

That was great goal..Bucaspor keeper Pavel Londak, couldn't do anything...


Fenerbahce team captain, Alex, scored on penalty kick and tying, third goal, with header and later Guiza made it 3-4 and last but not least Santos scored the fifth goal for Fenerbahce..

Guiza's crying, after the goal, showed us, were are all human....


IT was a good come back win for Fenerbahce ......

But, That penalty call by the referee change outcome of this match!

Also, Bucaspor rookie coach's very crucial substitutions,help Fenerbahce and hurt Buca team..

At the end, Fenerbahce with this win recaptured the top spot in Turkey, again.....

They both have 70 points but, Head to head competition
So, even Trabzonspor wins all their four matches, and Fenerbahce wins all theirs, Fenerbahce will be the Champs!

IT IS CRUNCH TIME IN THE TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE.......

Next four weekends will be crunch time, for teams like, Trabzonspor, Fenerbahce on top and for Bursaspor and Gaziantepspor for the third place and for teams who are at the edge of the relegation line!

Many opportunities came and gone for Trabzonspor now the ball is at Fenerbahce side..

One thing though, both of the teams ,did not play like they were the contender for the top spot!

Coming up this weekend , both of them will play on Sunday at the samme time...

And both of the will be at home...

Trabzonspor will host Gaziantep and Fener will host Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediye...

Very though opponents and very crucial matches...


FROM BEING GOAT TO HERO.....DANIEL GUIZA....

He has played very little for Fenerbahce and was under a lot of stress , did not liked by Fenerbahce fans until he scored that historical third goal to tied the match against Buca!

That goal made Spanish international player Daniel Guiza, cried after the goal and after the match in front of live microphone of LIG TV....


He said ,"It affects you when you don’t play for a long time despite wanting to play so badly. I am happy that I have started to contribute to the team’s title run.”

Yesterday's goat, became a hero and historical hero for Fenerbahce!

That was the human side of this past weekend..

Thrill of the victory goes to Fenerbahce while agony of defeat is to Trabzon!

Four weeks is long time for Championship!

There will be a lot of water passing under this bridge....

My prediction is, it will go down to wire!

One fact, Trabzonspor don't have the depth in their squad.....

Fenerbahce does and they are quality one

That is the only big difference......

See you next time.....



30th weekend results,,,,,,

22 Apr 2011
FT Eskisehirspor 0 : 0 Trabzonspor
23 Apr 2011
FT Bursaspor 2 : 1 Manisaspor
FT Galatasaray 1 : 1 Kayserispor
FT Karabukspor 2 : 1 Sivasspor
24 Apr 2011
FT Bucaspor 3 : 5 Fenerbahce
FT Buyuksehir 1 : 4 Ankaragucu
FT Gaziantepspor 2 : 1 Antalyaspor
FT Genclerbirligi 1 : 1 Kasimpasa
25 Apr 2011
FT Konyaspor 1 : 1 Besiktas


31th weekend matches.....

29 Apr 2011
19:00 CET Sivasspor ? : ? Genclerbirligi
30 Apr 2011
14:00 CET Antalyaspor ? : ? Bucaspor
14:00 CET Kasimpasa ? : ? Konyaspor
18:00 CET Besiktas ? : ? Galatasaray
01 May 2011
14:00 CET Manisaspor ? : ? Eskisehirspor
18:00 CET Fenerbahce ? : ? Buyuksehir
18:00 CET Kayserispor ? : ? Bursaspor
18:00 CET Trabzonspor ? : ? Gaziantepspor
02 May 2011
19:00 CET Ankaragucu ? : ? Karabukspor

Standings....

1 Fenerbahce 30 22 4 4 71-31 70
2 Trabzonspor 30 21 7 2 57-21 70
3 Bursaspor 30 15 10 5 46-25 55
4 Gaziantepspor 30 15 7 8 41-29 52
5 Besiktas 30 12 8 10 45-35 44
6 Eskisehirspor 30 11 11 8 34-32 44
7 Kayserispor 30 12 8 10 38-38 44
8 Buyuksehir 30 12 4 14 38-39 40
9 Karabukspor 30 11 7 12 44-47 40
10 Ankaragucu 30 10 9 11 49-52 39
11 Antalyaspor 30 9 10 11 33-40 37
12 Galatasaray 30 11 4 15 33-41 37
13 Manisaspor 30 11 3 16 42-47 36
14 Genclerbirligi 30 9 9 12 38-45 36
15 Sivasspor 30 8 8 14 37-50 32
16 Bucaspor 30 6 6 18 28-53 24
17 Konyaspor 30 4 10 16 24-42 22
18 Kasimpasa 30 5 7 18 28-59 22