Turkish Super League 2022/23 Season

[Velvet78]

There is a really big derby game today between Besiktas and Galatasaray. Having an advantage of playing home for Besiktas is making thing a little more difficult for Galatasaray. This is one of the most critical games for Galatasaray thinking of the league title. If they somehow manage to win this game I think that will be it and they will become the champions of this season.

However their job is really difficult here. Because Besiktas are also in a great form these days and they haven't lost a single game for a long time. Even a draw here would be for the benefit of Fenerbahce. Therefore Galatasaray had better play their best attacking game in this one.

[Gencecikmen]

Trabzonspor lost 2-1 away to Konyaspor. I don't remember the last match Trabzonspor won. Despite being title last season, Trabzonspor is in really bad stituon this season. If Trabzonspor can improve its performance, it can close to the Europa League or  UEFA Europa Conference League zone. Next week, Trabzonspor will face Ankaragücü at their home.

[flipme]

There is a really big derby game today between Besiktas and Galatasaray.

We are in the 31st week of the league. We are now approaching the end of the season. At this point, every match is very important. However, Galatasaray have not lost in any derby match this season. You can understand from this statistics that we are the strongest team in the championship race. Last week, we met with a surprise result against Fatih Karagümrükspor, but I have no doubt that the players from Galatasaray will prepare for this match more seriously. Beşiktaş have also been performing well in the last few weeks, but I believe we will get a draw in the worst case, thanks to the experience of the star players we have in this match. My heart is in favor of a win, but in the worst case, even a draw would be enough for Galatasaray.

[xzone]

There is a really big derby game today between Besiktas and Galatasaray. Having an advantage of playing home for Besiktas is making thing a little more difficult for Galatasaray. This is one of the most critical games for Galatasaray thinking of the league title. If they somehow manage to win this game I think that will be it and they will become the champions of this season.

However their job is really difficult here. Because Besiktas are also in a great form these days and they haven't lost a single game for a long time. Even a draw here would be for the benefit of Fenerbahce. Therefore Galatasaray had better play their best attacking game in this one.

A very competitive match will be waiting for us, if Galatasaray manages to win this match, it will be very close to the league championship. But if Beşiktaş gets 3 points, they may have a chance to pass Fenerbahçe. We are very close to the end of the league, but all 3 teams still have a chance.
Beşiktaş is playing very well in these types of matches, we can see a surprising result

[LGD2Business]

The starting elevens have been announced. At first glance, both teams' starting elevens look good.
If we look at the depth of the squad, Beşiktaş is a little weak. Except for Muleka and Maxim, there isn't a major player on the substitutes that can change the game. Therefore, Beşiktaş need to score a goal at the beginning of the match and take the lead.
Only 2 Turkish players will start the match in Galatasaray. The fact that all players are foreigners can cause problems in derbies. Players cannot adequately understand the derby atmosphere and the importance of the match. Galatasaray have Zaniolo and Gomis as their substitutes, they will definitely enter the game later.
It will be a tough match for both teams. I hope the referee will not be talked about in the match, football will be talked about. But I don't take that as likely.

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

The first half of the Beşiktaş-Galatasaray match ended 1-1. Galatasaray were the team that played superior in the first half, in my opinion. Beşiktaş scored a goal with a corner position. I don't think they had an organized attack in the first half.

We need to open a parenthesis for Icardi. He is one of the best strikers to come to Turkey in recent years. He scored a great goal against Beşiktaş. He was very calm in the goal position and made a great one shot. When he meets the ball in the penalty area, it becomes impossible to stop him. Okan Buruk should try better tactics to get Icardi to hit the ball inside the penalty area.

[ajanwalker]

Things started to get mixed up in the Turkish Super League. Beşiktaş defeated Galatasaray 3-1 and the scores of Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray were the same. (Galatasaray wins 1 match, Fenerbahce loses 2 matches, so their points are equal)
Mathematically, Beşiktaş still has a chance to win. Although Galatasaray put a lot of pressure in the last 20 minutes of the match, they could not find the goal. I can say that Aboubakar's counter attack goal set the score. Excitement will peak in the last 6 weeks.

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

Things started to get mixed up in the Turkish Super League. Beşiktaş defeated Galatasaray 3-1 and the scores of Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray were the same. (Galatasaray wins 1 match, Fenerbahce loses 2 matches, so their points are equal)
Mathematically, Beşiktaş still has a chance to win. Although Galatasaray put a lot of pressure in the last 20 minutes of the match, they could not find the goal. I can say that Aboubakar's counter attack goal set the score. Excitement will peak in the last 6 weeks.

Okan Buruk could not make the tactical changes we needed in the second half of the match. I think that was the most important reason why we lost the game. He should have brought Zaniolo into the game sooner. Also, he made the mistake of removing Mertens from the game. Because even if Mertens plays poorly today, he is a football player who has the skills to change the game of the team and the score of the match. Zaniolo, who replaced him, played well. But both of them should have played at the same time in my opinion. On the other hand, Beşiktaş did not play well today in my opnion. Maybe they defended well against Galatasaray in the second half of the match. But they were not effective at all in the first half. They made good use of Olivera and Muslera's simple mistake today and won the match.

[Captain Corporate]

Definitely a game Galatasaray should have won. Right now we have just 3 point difference left with Fenerbahce and we are going to play against them as well, there is absolutely no points we could ever lose from here to the end of the season. We need to finish the season with full points no matter what, there is no leeway or anything, best we can do is Fenerbahce game being a draw, aside from that we have to win every game. All in all I believe that we should be focusing a bit more towards next season already, and yet we are doing a lot worse right now, we are already putting this season at risk. Lets be honest with each other, we built a team that should be easily winning and beating these teams, the fact that we lost to Besiktas is disappointing beyond measure, its terrible.

[Pierre 2]

Watched a terrible Galatasaraty tonight. It was one of the worst Galatasaray matches I have ever seen for decades. Beşiktaş literally locked the most important player of Galatasaray who is Mertens. Kerem was also very ineffective. Galatasaray relied on random crossing from wings. Most of them were terrible. Beşiktaş used pressure to kill Galatasaray's passing ability. In general it worked. This should be the last match Galatasaray can afford to lose. After this match Galatasaray should start getting 3 points otherwise Fenerbahçe may really win title. Okan Buruk is failure tonight...

[CLS63]

Today in the derby match I think Gedson Fernandes was really impressive with a good level of effort. When Icardi scored the first goal I thought for once like Galatasaray would have a good game here. But especially their defensive performance was pretty bad. Sergio Oliveira's big mistake caused them to concede a goal and he apologised for that after the match as well.

Galatasaray wasted very important goal opportunities as well. This wasn't a performance fitting a team in a championship race. The gap with Fenerbahçe is only three points now. I can't imagine how exciting it would be if this gap is maintained until the Galatasaray - Fenerbahçe derby on the last week of the season for these teams. 

[püsür]

Watched a terrible Galatasaraty tonight. It was one of the worst Galatasaray matches I have ever seen for decades. Beşiktaş literally locked the most important player of Galatasaray who is Mertens. Kerem was also very ineffective. Galatasaray relied on random crossing from wings. Most of them were terrible. Beşiktaş used pressure to kill Galatasaray's passing ability. In general it worked. This should be the last match Galatasaray can afford to lose. After this match Galatasaray should start getting 3 points otherwise Fenerbahçe may really win title. Okan Buruk is failure tonight...

Yes, Beşiktaş locked the Galatasaray as you said. Surprisingly, Beşiktaş midfield was quite good and effective. They played well above their average yesterday. In the first half, the Torreira-Olivera duo squeezed Beşiktaş a lot. That's why Galatasaray got the goal. But Beşiktaş midfielders reacted very well in the 2nd half. While Galatasaray substituted 4 players, Beşiktaş still had not intervene in the game at some point. Then Tayfur and Necip entered. It is questionable how much they could be effective but at the end it turned out to be ok. In Galatasaray's side, it can be argued about the mistakes but there is more clear truth: Beşiktaş literally just played better and deserved a clear win. Next weeks surely be fun to watch for everyone when the race for championship is going strongly for three teams. But Beşiktaş's chances look slim with the current points.

[xzone]

No team can play very well all the time. Galatasaray was also not good last night, its rival was very good. Congratulations to Beşiktaş, they played like a champion team. More excitement has come to the league and maybe we won't know who will be the champion until the last week
It is always very difficult to beat Beşiktaş in matches played on the field of Beşiktaş, there was again a magnificent tribune support

[ILuckyGuyI]

I'm really annoyed with Galatasaray's performance yesterday. Icardi's goal was a big hope for me that I thought we would even be able to win against Besiktas. But things started to went wrong for us after that. There were serious defensive problems which was the main reason of our losing this important game. We just handed over three points to them due to individual mistakes.

We are still 3 points ahead of Fenerbahce in the standings though. Besides as far as I can see we have 5 games left while Fenerbahce have 4 now. We have a 3-0 head-to-head advantage over Fenerbahce at the same time. Taking all of these into account, I believe that we can still become the champions. I just hope that we don't make many simple mistakes in defense in the remaining games.

[Gencecikmen]

Fenerbahce defeated Sivasspor 1-3 away. In my opinion, Sivasspor-Fenerbahçe match was one of the most important matches of Fenerbahçe this season. I can hear Fenerbahce fans starting to sing championship songs again. Everything is fine for Fenerbahçe right now. It's going to be a really interesting season.

[sana54210]

No team can play very well all the time. Galatasaray was also not good last night, its rival was very good. Congratulations to Beşiktaş, they played like a champion team. More excitement has come to the league and maybe we won't know who will be the champion until the last week
It is always very difficult to beat Beşiktaş in matches played on the field of Beşiktaş, there was again a magnificent tribune support

If they didn't lose any points last week, then losing here would have made sense, but because they have been losing points left and right for a while, that 14-15 game streak ended up being worth not much, because they end up losing back to back.

All in all I feel like there is a situation where a draw and a loss means 1 points instead of 6, that's 5 points gone, if they got that they would have been already celebrating the title, instead they are just not doing well at all right now, the 8 possible point difference became 3, that becomes 0 with automatic win of Fenerbahce that they will get. When you combine all of these, no, not every team could have a loss here and there, it will finish more like Arsenal-City if they keep losing games every week or getting ties.

[flipme]

I'm really annoyed with Galatasaray's performance yesterday. Icardi's goal was a big hope for me that I thought we would even be able to win against Besiktas. But things started to went wrong for us after that. There were serious defensive problems which was the main reason of our losing this important game. We just handed over three points to them due to individual mistakes.

We are still 3 points ahead of Fenerbahce in the standings though. Besides as far as I can see we have 5 games left while Fenerbahce have 4 now. We have a 3-0 head-to-head advantage over Fenerbahce at the same time. Taking all of these into account, I believe that we can still become the champions. I just hope that we don't make many simple mistakes in defense in the remaining games.

Beşiktaş have the best squad in the league after Galatasaray. Their fans are just as good as Galatasaray fans. I think it's normal for us to lose points in this game. Also, Galatasaray football players have been in a bit of a panic on the field in recent weeks. In fact, we have very experienced football players. We shouldn't have experienced this psychology at all, but there has been a state of panic over the players in recent weeks. Now, we have to leave this match behind and forget it. We must be able to maintain our concentration until the Fenerbahçe match we will play in our own field. I believe we will be champions this year.

[LGD2Business]

The importance of strikers is once again understood. It doesn't make any sense if the striker can't score even if he plays well, if he plays badly throughout the match, he can change everything when he scores a goal. Aboubakar scored 8 goals in the last 8 matches for Beşiktaş. He scored in every match except the Trabzonspor match. That match ended 0-0. If Beşiktaş won that match, their chances of winning the championship would have increased.
Aboubakar has already caught Weghorst. Although he doesn't look as good as before in terms of physique and strength, Abou's finishing is still in excellent condition. Who knows what would have happened if he had been in this team since the beginning of the season.

[Pierre 2]

Watched a terrible Galatasaraty tonight. It was one of the worst Galatasaray matches I have ever seen for decades. Beşiktaş literally locked the most important player of Galatasaray who is Mertens. Kerem was also very ineffective. Galatasaray relied on random crossing from wings. Most of them were terrible. Beşiktaş used pressure to kill Galatasaray's passing ability. In general it worked. This should be the last match Galatasaray can afford to lose. After this match Galatasaray should start getting 3 points otherwise Fenerbahçe may really win title. Okan Buruk is failure tonight...

Yes, Beşiktaş locked the Galatasaray as you said. Surprisingly, Beşiktaş midfield was quite good and effective. They played well above their average yesterday. In the first half, the Torreira-Olivera duo squeezed Beşiktaş a lot. That's why Galatasaray got the goal. But Beşiktaş midfielders reacted very well in the 2nd half. While Galatasaray substituted 4 players, Beşiktaş still had not intervene in the game at some point. Then Tayfur and Necip entered. It is questionable how much they could be effective but at the end it turned out to be ok. In Galatasaray's side, it can be argued about the mistakes but there is more clear truth: Beşiktaş literally just played better and deserved a clear win. Next weeks surely be fun to watch for everyone when the race for championship is going strongly for three teams. But Beşiktaş's chances look slim with the current points.

Beşiktaş definitely deserved it. Okan Buruk tried different midfielders counter Beşiktaş solid midfield. Nothing he did worked. Mertens and Icardi were left alone in too far away in building up phases. Galatasaray was having hard time doing runs around. So their game looked very "zombie-like". Normaly Galatasaray could be able to unlock that strategy by players doing sprints to different wings. That could make Beşiktaş center dizzy. But it would take too much energy. Şenol Güneş did good by ordering his players to do harsh fouls. Those made game colder so Galatasaray could never heat the game.

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

No team can play very well all the time. Galatasaray was also not good last night, its rival was very good. Congratulations to Beşiktaş, they played like a champion team. More excitement has come to the league and maybe we won't know who will be the champion until the last week
It is always very difficult to beat Beşiktaş in matches played on the field of Beşiktaş, there was again a magnificent tribune support

In fact, Galatasaray played better in the first half of the match. And it's very strange that we had a hard time finding positions even in the parts we played well. But in my opinion, there were parts in the match where we played better than Beşiktaş.


Istanbulspor won a surprise draw last week in the match they played with Fenerbahce. This week, they defeated Giresunspor, one of their closest rivals in the league ranking. Both these teams have a high probability of relegation. But only one of these two teams is more likely to be relegated. And according to the result of this match, this team will most likely be Giresunspor. Istanbulspor defeated Giresunspor in this match and we can say that they breathed a little easier.