Very Crucial match for Besiktas in the Europa League

BESIKTAS INONU STADIUM.....

IT is do or die for Besiktas if they want to stay alive in the group....

Victory would move Besiktas above their opponents into second in the table!

Since defeat in Kiev, Besiktas have drawn 2-2 with Turkish Super League leaders Fenerbahce and won 3-1 against Sivasspor to lie fourth in the table on 17 points, four behind Fenerbahce.


Following the win over Sivasspor, Besiktas coach Carvalhal said,"now, all our focus is on Thursday's Europa League game against Dynamo Kiev."

Carlos Carvalhal wants his team to come through a tough period of games with victory against Dynamo Kiev in Europa League Group E.

Dynamo have an unbeaten record in the group to preserve as they have drawn at home to Stoke and away to Maccabi Tel Aviv in their two other games before the home win over Besiktas last time out in the competition last month.

Besiktas have won three of their last four European home games, and have scored eight goals in the two most recent continental fixtures at the Inonu Stadium.


A win in Istanbul is a must for Besiktas on Thursday night.....



Group E
P Pts
1 Stoke 2 4
2 Beşiktaş 2 3
3 Dynamo Kyiv 2 2
4 M. Tel-Aviv 2 1

TRABZONSPOR DRAW WITH CSKA AT HOME 0-0

Trabzonspor, when they look back at the end of the group matches , they will probably say them selfs, why we couldn't beat 10 men CSKA at home!

But than, it will be little too late....

With a draw against CSKA Moscow, in Trabzon, they lost the huge advantage in the group!

CSKA was a man down after Seydou Doumbia was sent off in the 74th minute of the match...


Most important moments of the match were.......

Header by Trabzonspor defender Giray Kacar that hit the post. While CSKA midfielder Alan Dzagoev struck a long-range shot that was tipped away by goalkeeper Tolga Zengin.


Trabzonspor and CSKA Moscow both have five points, four back from leader Inter, which won 2-1 at home against Lille.

Next two matches will be very crucial for Trabzonspor they will face Lille in France and host Inter in Trabzon in the last match.

Trabzonspor and CSKA ,are four back from leader Inter, which won 2-1 at home against Lille.

Lille is only with two points in the group........


Burak Yilmaz, Trabzonspor's goal scoring machine could not inspire Trabzonspor to victory..

Yilmaz scored 11 goals of Trabzonspor 14 goal in the Turkish League this season.

My man of the match was Tolga Zengin...

Tolga Zengin, kept Trabzsonspor in the match...

After the match Trabzonspor coach Senaol Gunes was frustrated and said " We are trying to do all we can. Every team in this group is a contender: even Inter have no guarantees. We would like to defeat Inter here but we don't want to lose either. At worst we want to qualify for the UEFA Europa League.

After the match, Trabzonspor former coach Giray Bulak, on "Radyospor" sport radio said, "Trabzonspor couldn't build attacked from from wings and he said, he believes TRabzonspor will finish in second place in the group."

It will not be easy....

Very Important Match for Trabzonspor in the Champions League!

TRABZONSPOR AND TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE'S TOP SCORER BURAK YILMAZ

CSKA Moscow won over Trabzonspor by 3 goals in the last group match in Moscow ...

Now they will face Trabzonspor in Trabzon.....

Where for the first time, their scoring power Burak Yilmaz will take the pitch along with Halil Altintop!

It is very crucial match for Trabzonspor....

With a win they could luck a place in the Champions League next round!

Even a draw against CSKA Moscow will be okay in Trabzon, Tonight!

Dider Zakora in the midfield for Trabzonspor will be a key man .....

At home, Trabzonspor have lost only one of their last seven games in European competition (excl. qualifiers) (three wins, three draws).


On the other hand,CSKA have lost only one of their last six away games in European competition, qualifiers excluded (three wins, two draws).


Trabzonspor scoring power Burak Yilmaz,should make a difference in this match!

Burak Yilmaz had been unavailable for Trabzonspor's opening three Champions League matches due to suspension.


Trabzonspor coach Senol Gunes said: "Our goal is always to should aim to produce better. Of course, mistakes are going to be made. Our effort in good faith and should be continuous."

TRabzonspor and CSKA , both have 4 points in the group B.

CSKA has better advatage as far as scoring more goals!

So, A win will be huge for Trabzonspor tonight...

The match will start at 9.45 local Turkiye, time,( 3:45 pm ET)

In the other match , in the group, The top team Inter will face LIlle In Italy.

With a win they could pretty much lock the first place at home tonight...

If ,Lille wins tonight , things will look ugly in the group B...

Lille has two points going in to this match...

Turkish Super League Review: Fenerbahce Still Unbeaten!

We could say it was football,everyday, since Oct 26th to 0ct 31th in the Turkish Super League...

TFF,cremmed in, week 8 and 9, in between those days!

Prety much, every stadium was half emty through out theese matches....

In the week 8, Besiktas, Fenerbhace derby match was the best match!

The match end it with 2-2 draw....

Besiktas scored first, and Fenerbahce scored in last minutes of the match after Besiktas was up 2-1!

Besiktas let the match out of their hand in the last few second of the match with a collapse on defense!

Other important thing happened in the week 8 was , Galatasaray getting trashed at their home field by Gaziantep!

Galatasaray went down to Gaziantep with huge score 2-4...

Galatasaray had a chance to grab the first place on that day but they couldn't do it!

League's surprise team Orduspor, At home earned one point against storng Bursaspor in the very last seconds of the match..

Trabzonspor was disapointement in the week 8!

They almost lost at home against Antalyaspor ...

They were lucky to tied the match in the last minutes of the match after Trabzonpsor earned penalty kick..

Burak Yilmaz scored the second goal by PK and Trabzonspor earned al least one point from that match!

In the week 9,Trabzonspor earned three points in away match in Gazinatep with a golden goal by Halil Altintop!

The goal was purely , Halil's hussle allway from mid field...

He made something from nothing, just before the match ended!

That was a huge win for Trabzonspor before the Champions League match on Tuesday...

With Halil and Burak Yilmaz playing on Tuesday, Trabzonspor will have a scoring power against CSKA....

In week 9, all Istabul teams won their matches,,,,

Besiktas beat Sivas with one goal while Galatasaray earned three points against Kayseri in away match and Istanbul Buyuksehir also beat Ankaragucu in away match,,,,,

The only team who has not lost a match, Fenerbahce on Modnay night despite a bed refeere they manage to win their home game against Karabuk with 10 men!

Fenerbahce captain Alex De Souza recieved very curutial red card in the early mintes of the match!

Red card for "Mr.gentelmen", Alex De Souza was to much!

It should have been yellow ...

But, Fenerbahce managed to stay perfect and won the match ...

There are four Istanbul teams on top of the Turkish Super League at the end of week 9!

Fenerbahce, Galatasaray, Buyuksehir and Besiktas....

Fenerbahce is on top with 21 points and the rest of the three has 17 points

Trabzonspor and Orduspor with 16 points and they are on fith and sixth..

Mansaspor is right behind them with 15 points on seveth place..

The league only team who has not won a match ,Ankaragucu is at rock bottom at last place with only one point!

Samsunspor , Karabuk and Gaziantep teams are in striglling mode at the bottam of the league..

A win for them in the week 10, will give those teams a momentum...

But, they have to learn to win first!

In the week 10, there will be two matches on Friday ,four matches on Saturday and three matches on Sunday...

Most likely the first place team will not change even if Fenerbahce loses points in the week 10....

Fenerbahce will travel to Sivas to play Sivaspor while Galatasaray host Mersin at home and Besiktas visits Genclerbirligi in Ankara...

Istanbul Buyuksehir and Trabzonspor will both be at home....

Buyuksehir will play agaisnt Bursaspor and Trabzonspor will face Kayserispor!

Orduspor will host Gaziantep in Ordu, Turkey...

There will be very tight matches in the league this coming weekend!

When we look at last nine weeks, we see the same team on top of the Turkish Super League....

Fenerbahce......

Galatasaray, and Buyuksehir along with Orduspor teams are the most improved teams in the league so far....

Playing in Europe, is little hurting Trabzonspor and Besiktas in the league!

Plus, very busy and tight fixture in the league does not help their cause.

Like I said, Fenerbahce will not have any problem in Sivas on Friday...

Even if they lose points on Friday, they will close the week 10, on top!

The only thing will happened in case of the other teams winning their match, the four point gap will close to one point...

That is, if the other teams, that follow Fenerbahce, win their matches!

Let's hope , it will be fun packed weekend....


WEEK 10......

04 Nov 2011
19:00 CET Samsunspor ? : ? Ankaragucu
19:00 CET Sivasspor ? : ? Fenerbahce

05 Nov 2011
12:00 CET Manisaspor ? : ? Antalyaspor
12:00 CET Orduspor ? : ? Gaziantepspor
15:00 CET Karabukspor ? : ? Eskisehirspor
18:00 CET Galatasaray ? : ? Mersin

06 Nov 2011
12:00 CET Buyuksehir ? : ? Bursaspor
15:00 CET Trabzonspor ? : ? Kayserispor
18:00 CET Genclerbirligi ? : ? Besiktas


STANDINGS....

1 Fenerbahce 9 6 3 0 15-7 21
2 Galatasaray 9 5 2 2 15-9 17
3 Buyuksehir 9 5 2 2 15-10 17
4 Besiktas 9 5 2 2 13-9 17
5 Trabzonspor 9 4 4 1 14-9 16
6 Orduspor 9 4 4 1 10-6 16
7 Manisaspor 9 4 3 2 10-7 15
8 Mersin 9 4 1 4 12-12 13
9 Bursaspor 9 3 3 3 14-10 12
10 Eskisehirspor 9 3 2 4 10-11 11
11 Genclerbirligi 9 3 2 4 10-14 11
12 Sivasspor 9 3 2 4 12-18 11
13 Kayserispor 9 3 1 5 12-13 10
14 Antalyaspor 9 2 4 3 8-11 10
15 Gaziantepspor 9 2 2 5 9-11 8
16 Karabukspor 9 2 2 5 9-12 8
17 Samsunspor 9 1 4 4 6-12 7
18 Ankaragucu 9 0 1 8 7-20 1

Very tight schedule in the Turkish Super League

First, over the weekend, there was a huge earthquake in Van,Turkey area, I am very sad to see people died in this earthquake .

It has been very tragic a couple of weeks for Turkey and Turkish people,,,

First it was Terrorists attacks by PKK terrorists organization now, earthquake....

Turkey and Turkish people will overcome this pain , I believe in that....

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Now back to Turkish Super League........

7th week ended on Monday and week 8 will start on Wednesday and end on Thursday , and week 9th matches will played on Saturday Sunday and Monday.....

Get ready for a lot of matches in the next seven days!

Everything I said in my last article, happened in the week 7!


Except,leage leader, Fenerbahce....

The most disappointed score came form Fenerbahce when they lost two pints to last place team Samsunspor at home in front of their own fans!

Out of all the Istanbul teams Besiktas was the only team who earned win and three points...


Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Istanbul Buyuksehir all lost points....


Galatasaray had a chance to even the points with Fenerbahce on Friday, but they were no show in Antalya! they were lucky to earn a point there...

When we looked back to week 7, we see Orduspor as most impressive team, and surprising team in the league this season...

As I predicted, they had no problem beating Ankaragucu in Ankara...

also, as I predicted Gaziantep won their first match of the season and earned their first three points...

As I mentioned in my last article on this blog, Karabuk beat a strong Buyuksehir team at home.

And Kayserispor with scoring six goal against Sivasspor showed they are coming back to normal form in the league....

Manisaspor beating Eskisehirspor in Eskisehir with two goals was the biggest surprise in the seventh week!

At the end of the week 7, Fenerbahce still on top with 17 points,Galatasaray on second with 14 points, Orduspor who is on third with same points(14), Buyuksehir is on fourth 134 and Besiktas on fifth with same points(13)...


Trabzonspor on sixth place with 12 points and Manisaspor on seventh place with 11 points...

Trabzonspor earning point in Bursa was also huge ...

Burak Yilmaz's PK goal gave them one points on the other hand Bursaspor lost the three points with a very bad back pass by their young captain Serdar Aziz to keeper Scott Carson, cost the PK , after Carson tripped Burak Yilmaz in the box!

It was the ninth league goal for Burak Yılmaz with TRabzonspor uniform this young season....

At the end of the seventh week, Ankaragucu is the only team who has not won a match in the league yet! they have only one point....

VERY BUSY SCHEDULE.................

Like I said before, week 8 and week 9 will be played in next 7 days.......

Week 8, matches will start on Wendsday and end on Thursday...

There will be 5 matches on Wendsday and four matches on Thursday .....

Perhaps, "the match of the week 8" will be the derby match between Besiktas and Fenerbahce..

On Thursday night in Istanbul Besiktas will host Fenerbahce ...

On Wendsday Galatasaray will play against Gaziantep at home . a win could put them in first place over Fenerbahce if they score two or more goals against Gazinatep, before Fenerbahce plays Besiktas on Thursday!

Also on Wendsday third place Orduspor could even the points with Fenerbahce if they beat Bursaspor in Ordu, Turkey...

So, before the week 9th starts on Saturday we could see a new league leader at the end of Thursday night!

Like I said, the biggest match of the week 8 , will be Besiktas vs Fnerbhace match...

I win for Besiktas will put them in top three , a win for Fenerbahce will stillthem on top of the league...

Looking at last two matches for Fenerbahce, they are in scoring drought!

And they are not playing well......

On the other hand, Besiktas is just like Fenerbahce too!

The only difference is they won their last match....

A strong Besiktas should have no problem beating Fenerbahce but, Fenerbahce will be more aggressive in this match after losing points at home against Sansunspor,,,,,


WEEK 8.....


26 Oct 2011... Wendsday
17:00 CET Buyuksehir ? : ? Eskisehirspor
17:00 CET Samsunspor ? : ? Karabukspor
17:30 CET Orduspor ? : ? Bursaspor
19:30 CET Galatasaray ? : ? Gaziantepspor
19:30 CET Trabzonspor ? : ? Antalyaspor

27 Oct 2011... Thursday
17:00 CET Genclerbirligi ? : ? Kayserispor
17:30 CET Sivasspor ? : ? Mersin
19:30 CET Besiktas ? : ? Fenerbahce
19:30 CET Manisaspor ? : ? Ankaragucu


STANDINGS....

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

Turkish Super League : Week 7, Preview

Turkish Super League week 7, will take a start on Friday and end on Monday night...

In the week 6, Fenerbahce with winning in away match kept their form and won in Mersin.

Buyuksehir, Galatasaray, Orduspor, with winning, kept the pressure on top...

Besiktas losing against Kayserispor at home was the upset of the week 6!

As we start the 7th weekend ,Fenerbahce is the only team who did not lose a match in Turkish Super League!

7th week, will start with Antalya vs Galatasaray match on Friday and there will be three matches on Saturday, four on Sunday and one on Monday night....

On Friday, Antalya vs Galatasaray match will be action packed...

Antalya coming off a loss will give Galatasaray their moneys worth in this match....

One other thing, Fatih Terim, will face his former assistant coach at Turkish National team Mehmet Ozdilek for the first time in the league...

This match will be good to watch....

With a win Galatasaray could even the points with Fenerbahce on top!

But, it will not be easy ....

On Saturday, Trabzonspor and Istanbulspor will have a very rough away matches....

Trabzon will travel to Bursa nad Buyuksehir will be in Karabuk. Karabuk is hurting and desprete for points, Since Emenike left the team, they are not the Karabuk that we knew one time...

But, this match could be turning point for the at home...

On the other hand Trabzonspor in Bursa will face a strong Bursaspor....

Bursa after losing to Galatasaray last weekend, they need to win this match....

This match will be war of points...because with a win Bursaspor will go on top of Trabzonspor in the standing..

This is huge match for Bursaspor......

A draw or win for Trabzonspor will keep them in top four or five...

Another match between Eskisehir and Manisa will be a match for points too...

Manisa who is with 8 points and Eskisehir who is with 7 points will clash in Eskisehir, who ever wins the match will gain advantage....

On Sunday, League Leader Fenerbahce will host Samsunspor...

Samsunspor, has been really bad......

They have only one match so far.....

They have very bad defense and they let in 11 goals in just 6 weeks!

Fenerbahce should have no problem in Samsun...

But, they can't play the way they played against Mersin!

A draw for Samsun will be huge and will be really bad for Fenerbahce...

The team who surprise a lot of people this season, Orduspor, will be in Ankara to play Ankaragu on Sunday.

Ankaragucu the team who is in turmoil, will have no chance against Orduspor....

Ankaragucu along with Gaziantep is the only two teams who has not won matches in the league this season, so far!

Could they do it this weekend?

We shell see.....

Gazinatep and Ankaragucu both playing at home, in the normal circumstances, they should...

I think , Gaziantep could do it against Gencelerbirligi....

Turkish Super League week 7, will close with Mersin vs Besiktas match on Monday..

Besiktas and Mersin are dead luck with 10 points in the standings.....

This is a must win match for Besiktas...

A loss for Besiktas who is on 7th place before this match, could see them selfs in the lower standings!

Lastly, most of the matches in the 7th weekend will be point wars ,between the teams!

See you next time.

WEEEK 7:

21 Oct 2011
19:00 CET Antalyaspor ? : ? Galatasaray
22 Oct 2011
14:00 CET Eskisehirspor ? : ? Manisaspor
18:00 CET Bursaspor ? : ? Trabzonspor
18:00 CET Karabukspor ? : ? Buyuksehir
23 Oct 2011
14:00 CET Ankaragucu ? : ? Orduspor
14:00 CET Kayserispor ? : ? Sivasspor
18:00 CET Fenerbahce ? : ? Samsunspor
18:00 CET Gaziantepspor ? : ? Genclerbirligi
24 Oct 2011
19:00 CET Mersin ? : ? Besiktas

Dynamo Kiev 1- Besiktas 0

Besiktas had the one point in their hand, but they lost it with stupid plays in the stoppage- time!

Keeper Cenk Gonen's trying to delay the match and getting yellow card and Besiktas caretaker coach Carlos Carvalhal's substitution in the stoppage-time was biggest mistake in this match...

So, with this last-gasp goal Besiktas ,not only lost the match, they also lost the second place in the group to Dynamo Kiev.


Besiktas after losing a chance to capture the second place in the Turkish Super League this past weekend lost the second place with this last second minute lost in the Europa League in Group E.

Besiktas who spend million dollars in the transfer season,really surprising their fans with on and off the pitch.

Lastly, I have said this many times, Big teams should have smart and experience keepers in goal!

Yesterday , we saw this one more time again.....

Cenk could be young upcoming keeper but last night,he did not show that in the stoppage-time of the match!

Garmash scored in the third minute of stoppage time as Dynamo Kiev earned 1-0 win over Besiktas....