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

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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

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