Turkish Super League 2020/21 Season

[Expecto]

Beşiktaş beat Konyaspor 1-0, although there were only 10 people left. This year, in the first half of the league, Konyaspor beat the big 3 but today it played very badly even when its opponent was 10. In my opinion, Konyaspor's coach İsmail Kartal will most likely come this week.

Besiktas had an incredible performance despite playing with 10 players for a very long time. Konyaspor didn't have any shots in the first half. It didn't change much in the second half too and they only got 3 shots none of which was on target. They beat Galatasaray and Fenerbahce this season but they couldn't manage to do the same thing to Besiktas even they had one man advantage.

[beerlover]

Honestly Besiktas did play a good game compared to other team but the whole game was a bit more rough than expected, by both teams. When one team plays a bit hard and tackles hard and the ref doesn't blow the whistle each time, that allows both teams to end up fighting a bit harder and that is why I think it is not that easy for both teams to just ease off, and that resulted with everyone constantly attacking each others' feet like crazy.

Besiktas had the chance to attack with speed, which normally doesn't happen against smaller level teams who just put 7-8 people on defense each possession and just try to not get scored on all game, but this wasn't like that, Konya actually played well and tried to attack and had few situations where they almost scored as well, but this opened up the game for BJK and they just attacked with speed and got into good possessions.

[GalaWan]

Now they have the same score in 3 teams, especially for Beşiktaş, I can say that although there were only 10 people left, they managed to make a good pressure and beat the opponent in the last 20 minutes.

I can say that Galatasaray and Fenerbahce match became a little more enjoyable in the second half. It might have been a chance for Fenerbahçe to open the point gap, but they couldn't and they lost.

[ingiltere]

Today Trabzonspor won again and made their series to 5 games. It's not an easy achievement to do, 5 wins in a row.
Nobody give them a chance at the start of the season but now they are only 6 points away from first 3 teams. I wonder if they can continue this run or get slipped by coming weeks. They have a very hard fixture, especially next 3 games (Gaziantep FK, Başakşehir and Fenerbahçe) could be a good test for them.

[Spack17]

Tomorrow, we are going to have a game between Fenerbahce and Basaksehir in Ulker Stadium in the Turkish Cup Quarter-finals. Fenerbahce lost the derby match against Galatasaray and they might have some difficulty in focusing on this game but still I see them as too dominant for this match. Because Basaksehir didn't win a game for 6 weeks in the Turkish Super League and they also lost the Super Cup game to Trabzonspor. They are so down now and I don't know what kind of a psychological condition they will be in there. In conclusion, I think Fenerbahce will definitely want to win this and pull themselves together.

[RaltcoinsB]

Tomorrow, we are going to have a game between Fenerbahce and Basaksehir in Ulker Stadium in the Turkish Cup Quarter-finals. Fenerbahce lost the derby match against Galatasaray and they might have some difficulty in focusing on this game but still I see them as too dominant for this match. Because Basaksehir didn't win a game for 6 weeks in the Turkish Super League and they also lost the Super Cup game to Trabzonspor. They are so down now and I don't know what kind of a psychological condition they will be in there. In conclusion, I think Fenerbahce will definitely want to win this and pull themselves together.

With the match to be played today, Fenerbahçe wants to forget its derby defeat.  Watchers know that Fenerbahçe did not score a goal.Spoken throughout the week.  Başakşehir is drawing a bad graphic right now.  Mesut Özil can start in the first squad.  We will see the result of the match tonight.

[judas]

Tomorrow, we are going to have a game between Fenerbahce and Basaksehir in Ulker Stadium in the Turkish Cup Quarter-finals. Fenerbahce lost the derby match against Galatasaray and they might have some difficulty in focusing on this game but still I see them as too dominant for this match. Because Basaksehir didn't win a game for 6 weeks in the Turkish Super League and they also lost the Super Cup game to Trabzonspor. They are so down now and I don't know what kind of a psychological condition they will be in there. In conclusion, I think Fenerbahce will definitely want to win this and pull themselves together.

With the match to be played today, Fenerbahçe wants to forget its derby defeat.  Watchers know that Fenerbahçe did not score a goal.Spoken throughout the week.  Başakşehir is drawing a bad graphic right now.  Mesut Özil can start in the first squad.  We will see the result of the match tonight.

Mesut Ozil showed his quality in the derby match even though he didn't play in official matches for more than a year. After he came on, he was very good on his passes and Fenerbahce started playing better. He even was very close to make his first assist at the club but the goal was cancelled by a disputable VAR decision. Anyway, I also think we can see him starting to play from the beginning of the match. I expect Fenerbahce to get a win.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Tomorrow, we are going to have a game between Fenerbahce and Basaksehir in Ulker Stadium in the Turkish Cup Quarter-finals. Fenerbahce lost the derby match against Galatasaray and they might have some difficulty in focusing on this game but still I see them as too dominant for this match. Because Basaksehir didn't win a game for 6 weeks in the Turkish Super League and they also lost the Super Cup game to Trabzonspor. They are so down now and I don't know what kind of a psychological condition they will be in there. In conclusion, I think Fenerbahce will definitely want to win this and pull themselves together.

With the match to be played today, Fenerbahçe wants to forget its derby defeat.  Watchers know that Fenerbahçe did not score a goal.Spoken throughout the week.  Başakşehir is drawing a bad graphic right now.  Mesut Özil can start in the first squad.  We will see the result of the match tonight.

Mesut Ozil showed his quality in the derby match even though he didn't play in official matches for more than a year. After he came on, he was very good on his passes and Fenerbahce started playing better. He even was very close to make his first assist at the club but the goal was cancelled by a disputable VAR decision. Anyway, I also think we can see him starting to play from the beginning of the match. I expect Fenerbahce to get a win.

Fenerbahce has been playing great this season. A few days ago they were at the top of the points table. Although their position is now third in the table, but the points of the first 3 teams are the same. The Fenerbahce team is stable enough. If experienced players like Mesut Ozil join the team, they will become more powerful. Each team will play 17 more matches. Each team has many opportunities to change their position.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Trabzonspor are going to play a home game against Gaziantep this weekend. Trabzonspor are the 4th with 42 points and Gaziantep are the 7th with 38 points. Trabzonspor won all of their last 5 games. Gaziantep won only once in their last 5 games (1W 1D 3L). Trabzonspor won their last 3 home games. Gaziantep haven't got an away win for 4 matches (1D 3L). In the last 5 head-to-head games, Trabzonspor won twice and the rest of them ended in a draw.

Missing player(s) at Trabzonspor: Abdulkadir Parmak, Abdulkadir Omur (1 goals)
Missing player(s) at Gaziantep: Jefferson Nogueira Junior (2 goals)

My sources: https://www.flashscore.com/match/rs1Y7aOf/#match-summary
                  https://www.sportsgambler.com/football/injuries-suspensions/turkey-super-lig/#trabzonspor
                  https://www.sportsgambler.com/football/injuries-suspensions/turkey-super-lig/#gazi-ehir-gaziantep-fk

Trabzonspor are 6 points away from Galatasaray-Besiktas-Fenerbahce trio. They have the same performance as Galatasaray in the last 5 games. This time, they will have another tough game against Gaziantep. But they might benefit from Gaziantep's bad form. I think Trabzonspor will be the winner here.

[Iranus]

The match of Rizespor vs Erzurum BB will be held tomorrow. I want to place my bet on Rizespor. Erzurum BB would like to draw the match. They have not lost in any of their last 5 matches. Has drawn 3 and win 2 matches. Even if Erzurum BB plays for the draw, I think Rizespor will be able to win this match.

[barbara44]

It is a big shame that two of the biggest teams in the league ended up losing their games in the cup, Galatasaray was definitely a lot worse, the score was 3-0 at one point and that is really humiliating in this kind of situation, and no matter how much the manager and all fans gets mad at the reffere for being bad, you do not get scored three times in one half if you are a good team, even if the ref literally cheats his way into the win, it is not 3 goals in one half, that is shameful.

Fenerbahce wasn't that great neither, they at least put up a fight, but it was obvious that nobody focused on the game that much, Ozil looked ready and played very well, after not playing for that many months (over a year) he looks like he got his conditioning back and was running and chasing even on the last minutes but FB managed to lose. Cup makes no sense now, it is all going to be crazy.

[ingiltere]

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We have a cup thread already here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5286315

It's still early phase of the league as teams played only 23 matches and 17 more to come. Anything is possible, even Trabzonspor is now in the discussion. They will play with Gaziantep, Fenerbahçe will play with Karagümrük, Galatasaray will play with Kasımpaşa. All opponents are too hard to beat for these teams. Beşiktaş has a better chance against Gençlerbirliği. You will see the balance change so quickly in this league every week.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Fenerbahce are going to play an away game against Karagumruk this weekend. Fenerbahce are the 3rd with 48 points and Karagumruk are the 8th with 37 points. Karagumruk (3W 1D 1L) and Fenerbahce (3W 1D 1L) lost only once in the last 5 games in the league. Karagumruk have lost only 2 of their 11 home games (7W 2D 2L). Fenerbahce are the best team in away games (8W 2D 1L). Fenerbahce beat Karagumruk 2-1 on Oct 3, 2020.

Missing player(s) at Karagumruk: Emiliano Viviano, Vegar Eggen Hedenstad, Ervin Zukanovic (2 goals)
Missing player(s) at Fenerbahce: Dimitrios Pelkas   (4 goals), Luiz Gustavo (1 goal), Diego Perotti (3 goals)

My sources: https://www.flashscore.com/match/UZKcE1oR/#match-summary
                  https://www.sportsgambler.com/football/injuries-suspensions/turkey-super-lig/#karagumruk
                  https://www.sportsgambler.com/football/injuries-suspensions/turkey-super-lig/#fenerbahce

Fenerbahce lost the derby game against Galatasaray. After that, they also were eliminated by Basaksehir in the Turkish Cup. And this is a difficult game for them. Karagumruk are too strong in their home games. So, Fenerbahce could lose points and we could see a draw here.

[ingiltere]

Yesterday Fenerbahçe beat Karagümrük and today Galatasaray beat Kasımpaşa with a late goal. Big dawgs didn't make a mistake. Tomorrow Beşiktaş need to get that 3 points but there are a lot of unavailable players. Today Oğuzhan Özyakup is injured and he's missing for at least 2 weeks. It's hard to make a decent eleven when there are a lot of injured players in defense and midfield. There is no excuse though, they should win the game no matter what it takes. Opponents have already 51 points, even a draw would be a big point loss.

[ziyaaa]

Yesterday Fenerbahçe beat Karagümrük and today Galatasaray beat Kasımpaşa with a late goal. Big dawgs didn't make a mistake. Tomorrow Beşiktaş need to get that 3 points but there are a lot of unavailable players. Today Oğuzhan Özyakup is injured and he's missing for at least 2 weeks. It's hard to make a decent eleven when there are a lot of injured players in defense and midfield. There is no excuse though, they should win the game no matter what it takes. Opponents have already 51 points, even a draw would be a big point loss.

Karagumruk-Fenerbahce game was a challenging one but Fenerbahce were better on scoring than their opponent. Galatasaray were nearly losing points but they got a penalty in the last minutes and Mostafa Mohamed didn't miss it. Both teams have still the same points and Galatasaray are maintaining their lead. Tomorrow, I think Besiktas will also win their match against Genclerbirligi but Galatasaray will still be having the lead.

[GalaWan]

Galatasaray does not break from the championship race, but there was a position in the penalty area, it is indeed an unquestionable penalty, but it does not exist, it only has a name, but it is empty, nothing is right, I can't make sense in this league. There is no right to justice. Still, 3 points was an important move, but I do not know how far this league will go with these referees.

[ingiltere]

Beşiktaş started the game so fast and found the goal with Ghezzal. After the goal Gençlerbirliği didn't change their game plan, they are still defending and trying to find some counter attack positions. So far they couldn't success. Ghezzal is not playing well except that goal, he's doing many easy errors. Beşiktaş still have the ball but wasting positions generously. They need to find second goal and don't let any surprise to happen in second half. Weather is cold and snowy, players put too much effort in the pitch.

[ziyaaa]

Beşiktaş started the game so fast and found the goal with Ghezzal. After the goal Gençlerbirliği didn't change their game plan, they are still defending and trying to find some counter attack positions. So far they couldn't success. Ghezzal is not playing well except that goal, he's doing many easy errors. Beşiktaş still have the ball but wasting positions generously. They need to find second goal and don't let any surprise to happen in second half. Weather is cold and snowy, players put too much effort in the pitch.

Besiktas destroyed Genclerbirligi 3-0 in this match and has gone up to the 2nd place. Besiktas showed an incredible performance and there is no doubt that they deserved to win the match. But the score was 1-0 until the 89th minute and it was really risky for Besiktas. However, they scored 2 more goals (89' and 90+3') and secured 3 points. I really liked Cenk Tosun's performance. He scored both goals in the last minutes.

[ingiltere]

Beşiktaş played whole game dominant, like previous games. They couldn't find second goal until last minutes but they had too many positions wasted. Gençlerbirliği had only 1 shot on goal, almost all game was played in Gençlerbirliği's side of the pitch.

Cenk Tosun's performance was quite good, he played in last 30 minutes only but didn't waste positions he found. Meanwhile Larin and Aboubakar was so generous about easy one on ones, Cenk gave good signs to fans and manager Sergen Yalçın. It was an important win for Beşiktaş. All three teams have 51 points now.

[TheGreatPython]

Beşiktaş played whole game dominant, like previous games. They couldn't find second goal until last minutes but they had too many positions wasted. Gençlerbirliği had only 1 shot on goal, almost all game was played in Gençlerbirliği's side of the pitch.

Cenk Tosun's performance was quite good, he played in last 30 minutes only but didn't waste positions he found. Meanwhile Larin and Aboubakar was so generous about easy one on ones, Cenk gave good signs to fans and manager Sergen Yalçın. It was an important win for Beşiktaş. All three teams have 51 points now.

There was this feeling of "we are not giving up" situation going on. I mean the three big clubs are doing amazing and they are all equal points right now, Besiktas was ahead of everyone at one point and everyone assumed that it would continue like that but when they had a loss and a tie back to back and FB and GS caught up with BJK, people started to question what will happen and maybe BJK will fail and s forth, which honestly didn't happen at all.

This game was more of a "we are not done yet and we are still at the top" game and a show off force, even as a person who is not fan of BJK, I have to say they played an amazing football. Sergen was always a great football player and he was always amazing thanks to his skills and talent and not because of his physique, so it was obvious that he would become a very good manager in the end as well.