Last weekend (24th week ) , it was bad for Fenerbahce and Galatasaray while It was good weekend for Besiktas !
While Galatasaray draw with Basaksehir at home Fenerbahce went down in Ankara ,against Genclerbirligi.....
On the other hand Besiktas, beat Erciyes with 5-1 score in Ankara .....
Well, since then things are not going well for Besiktas and Besiktas coach Bilic !
First, on Thursday in front of their fans, after going ahead against Brugge team in the Europa Cup match, they choked and elimenated from Europa Cup !
On Sunday, in the league match against Fenerbahce they went down in the very last minutes of injury time .....
Besiktas had many chances to score but they could not !
Fenerbahce forward Sow scored the only goal in the match.....
In the 19th minute, Nigerian forward Emmanuel Emenike missed a one-on-one chance, failing to take advantage of a defensive mistake by Besiktas player Necip Uysal.
Emenike was heavily protested by Fenerbahce fans after missing the chance. He wanted to be replaced but he stayed on the pitch until half time.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/video.php?v=10153177386818430&pnref=story
It was a scene that I never seen before !
While Fenerbahce players Raul Meireles and Dirk Kuy went out with injuries , Besiktas lost keeper Tolga Zengin and Tolgay Arslan too .....
Besiktas's third string keeper Gunay Guvenc had to coming in to the match since second string keeper Cenk Gonen was hurt too ....
Besiktas while attacking in the very last minutes of injury time, caught with their pants down on the defense and Sow cashed in !
It has not been a good week for Besiktas , this week ......
Only thing left for Bilic and Besiktas is the STSL league title !
The last nine weeks won't be easy for Besiktas ....
They need to refresh as a team and start playing as a team.....
On the other hand, Fenerbahce with this win ,put them selfs on the title chase again !
But, there are a lot of issues with Fenerbahce team !
Issues with players like Emre ......
And coach Ismail Kartal .....
After what I saw in this match, I don't think, Ismail Kartal has any control over this team !
He lost his
credibility from sideline as a coach .....
On Saturday, Galatasaray comeback from behind and beat Kasimpasa in their stadium.
Things, did not looked good at all for Galatasaray in the first half of the match ....
Kasimpasa closed theh first half with 2-0 score .....
However, in the second half, Galatasaray was diffrent team !
They score three unanswered goal and they won the match 3-2 .......
They were eather lucky or Kasimpasa did not know how to protect the 2-0 score !
So, this weekends results were good to Galatasaray and Fenerbahce ...
It was not good for Besiktas !
With this loss, Besiktas coach has not win anyy derby match in Istanbul ....
That might be trouble for Bilic !
At the end of the 25th week in the Turkish Super League, Galatasaray on top with 55 , Besiktas on second with 54 and Fenerbahce on third place with 53 points.
This race is three horse race, once again !
Because of the National Team matches there won't be any matches this coming weekend in the league ..
Turkish National team will play very important match against Holland on Saturday !
It is do or die match for Turkey and Fatih Terim's boys........
Results.......
Balikesirspor 4-1 Eskisehirspor
Kardemir Karabukspor 0-1 Torku Konyaspor
SAI Kayseri Erciyesspor 0-3 Caykur Rizespor
Mersin Idmanyurdu 0-1 Gaziantepspor
Medicana Sivasspor 4-1 Bursaspor
Kasimpasa 2-3 Galatasaray
Istanbul Basaksehir 3-1 Genclerbirligi
Trabzonspor 2-0 Akhisar Belediyespor
Fenerbahce 1-0 Besiktas
Standings......
| Rank | Team |
P
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
GF
|
GA
|
+/-
|
Pts
|
| 1. | GALATASARAY | 25 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 46 | 30 | 16 | 55 |
| 2. | BESİKTAS | 25 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 42 | 24 | 18 | 54 |
| 3. | FENERBAHCE | 25 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 40 | 19 | 21 | 53 |
| 4. | ISTANBUL BASAKSEHIR | 25 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 35 | 18 | 17 | 43 |
| 5. | TRABZONSPOR | 25 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 48 | 38 | 10 | 43 |
| 6. | BURSASPOR | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 49 | 35 | 14 | 41 |
| 7. | GAZIANTEPSPOR | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 32 | -8 | 34 |
| 8. | MERSIN IDMANYURDU | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 39 | 37 | 2 | 32 |
| 9. | GENCLERBIRLIGI | 25 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 34 | 33 | 1 | 32 |
| 10. | TORKU KONYASPOR | 25 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 32 | -10 | 31 |
| 11. | KASIMPASA | 25 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 38 | 46 | -8 | 29 |
| 12. | AKHISAR BELEDIYESPOR | 25 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 31 | 40 | -9 | 29 |
| 13. | CAYKUR RIZESPOR | 25 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 31 | 36 | -5 | 28 |
| 14. | MEDICANA SIVASSPOR | 25 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 29 | 35 | -6 | 27 |
| 15. | ESKISEHIRSPOR | 25 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 30 | 38 | -8 | 27 |
| 16. | SAI KAYSERI ERCIYESSPOR | 25 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 44 | -14 | 20 |
| 17. | KARDEMIR KARABUKSPOR | 25 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 27 | 39 | -12 | 18 |
| 18. | BALIKESIRSPOR | 25 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 31 | 50 | -19 | 18 |
A bus carrying Fenerbahce football team was attacked on a highway near Trabzon as the players were returning from an away game which they won against Rize 5-1 .
The driver was injured in the shooting.
The driver was injured in the face and taken to hospital, said Fenerbahce's vice president Mahmut Uslu, who was himself on the bus at the time. He accused the attackers of trying to "crash the bus and kill the players".
"It's unbelievable," he told Turkish television.
Trabzon governor Abdil Celil Oz confirmed the gun attack on the bus and said the driver's life was not in danger.
The governor said he had received a phone call from president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a supporter of the Istanbul club, asking him about the investigation into the attack.
The Turkish Football Federation and most of the football clubs in Turkey issued a statement condemning the incident "in the strongest possible terms" and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice "immediately".
Turkish media reacted with shock to the shooting, an unprecedented attack on a club in the football-mad country.
Earlier, Fenerbahce took top spot in the standings courtesy of its easy victory.
The game was as good as over inside an hour as the reigning champion struck five times without response through Mehmet Topuz (five), Moussa Sow (eight and 34), Pierre Webo (49) and Caner Erkin (55).
Rizespor did manage to pull a goal back in the 62nd minute through Deniz Kadah but they could not get any closer as Fener moved a point ahead of arch-rival Galatasaray, which will expect to reclaim top spot when it hosts second-bottom Karabukspor.
Genclerbirligi also ran in five goals as it despatched Kasimpasa 5-2, with Mostapha El Kabir grabbing a hat-trick.
Kasimpasa actually took a fourth-minute lead, former Liverpool and Ajax striker Ryan Babel the man on the mark, but Genclerbirligi then struck four times in a 26-minute spell either side of half-time to take complete control.
Mervan Celik and El Kabir (penalty) scored before the break and then Irfan Can Kahveci and El Kabir again made it 4-1 at the start of the second half.
Ezequiel Scarione reduced the deficit 15 minutes from time but El Kabir wrapped up the home side's win - and his hat-trick - with another penalty late on.
That victory kept Genclerbirligi level on points with mid-table rivals Mersin Idmanyurdu, which brought a five-match losing streak in all competitions to an end with a 3-1 win at Balikesirspor.
Goals from Abdul Khalili (30), Welliton (58) and Prejuce Nakoulma (76) saw visiting Mersin to victory, with Balikesirspor netting a 90th-minute consolation through Ante Kulusic.
On a day when there was an average of more than five goals per game in the Super Lig, Sivasspor also claimed a 3-1 away win, beating Eskisehirspor.
Relegation-battling Eskisehirspor led through Sezer Ozturk's 41st-minute penalty at the break but Sivasspor turned things round in the second half with a brace from Aatif Chahechouhe coming either side of a John Utaka goal.
On Sunday, in early match Galatasaray will face Karabuk and Trabzon travels to Konya...
Week 26 will close on Monday with Besiktas vs Basaksehir match,,,
Lastly,
There are dark clouds over Turkish football...
TFF needs to take urgent actions as soon as possible !
