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
