Topic: Turkish Cup 2024 - page 3. (Read 1230 times)

Beşiktaş is having a very bad season in the league this season, but it can make its fans a little happy by winning this cup. That's why this cup is so important for Beşiktaş. The semi-final will be a two-legged battle. If Beşiktaş gets a draw in the first leg, I think it will be a good result. Ankaragücü is a team close to the relegation zone but Emre Belözoğlu is a very good coach. He is a good enough coach to win this tournament. We saw in the league match that he decoded Beşiktaş's codes well. He eliminated Fenerbahçe in the previous round. He prepares his team well for the tournament matches.

Tonight and tomorrow, there are Turkish Cup round of semi-final matches first leg. Beşiktaş is playing against MKE Ankaragücü at Eryaman Stadium in tonight. Beşiktaş played against Ankaragücü at home in the Super League match at the weekend and won 2-0. Beşiktaş has only solitary goal for this season, and that is to win this cup. That's why I think Beşiktaş will do his best.

MKE Ankaragücü-Beşiktaş match will start soon.

MKE Ankaragücü's starting XI against Beşiktaş: Bahadır, Kitsiou, Uros, Mujakic, Atakan, Flips, Tolga, Efkan, Morutan, Bassogog, Ali Sowe.

Beşiktaş's starting XI against MKE Ankaragücü: Mert, Svensson, Necip, Worrall, Umut, Al Musrati, Muçi, Gedson, Rashica, Ghezzal, Muleka.

Semi final matches will be played over two matches. It's a ridiculous practice but that's the rule. The first match is played in Ankara. Beşiktaş will come back with an advantageous score. Beşiktaş, whose biggest goal this season is to win the cup, will not make a mistake in the double-elimination system.
The winner of the cup will play in the UEFA Europa League next season. If Beşiktaş wins this cup, they won't have to finish 3rd in the league. Of course, it's important to finish 3rd in the league, but the elimination of this obligation will relieve the team. The goal now is to pass the semi final and reach the final. Semih Kılıçsoy and Bakhtiyor Zaynutdinov are only important missing players. Muleka, whose performance has improved, is likely to start as a striker. The other offensive trio is Rashica, Muçi and Ghezzal. This team should score a lot of goals under normal conditions.

We can say that Beşiktaş or Trabzonspor will win the cup.The final match will be played between these 2 teams, but I think Beşiktaş is one step ahead.After the elimination of Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, these 2 teams seem to be the favorites, but I think Beşiktaş is closer because the young striker Semih is really scoring beautiful goals every game.We can say that he is one of the names that marked this season for Beşiktaş.A good player has been brought to both Turkish football and Beşiktaş.Fenerbahçe's elimination is not a very sad situation because the league or conference league championship is more important for them.

I don't know maybe this format is better than that. The Turkish Cup format has changed quite a lot so far I presume. First there was even a group stage system before the elimination stage. This was making the schedule very tight for teams considering the other tournaments they were part of as well. It was a big issue for especially big Super League teams competing in tournaments such as the Champions League and so on.

Now we have much less number of matches being played. It is a simple format. Yes, maybe now Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray don't have a second chance but there is nothing to do. I also think Beşiktaş will win the cup. 

Beşiktaş are having a very good period with their new coach Santos. They had a good series in their last matches. I think they are a better team than Trabzonspor. Also, it is not hard to guess that they will give importance to the cup as they have been very bad in the league this season. Trabzonspor and Beşiktaş are shown as favorites by everyone. But we should not forget that Ankaragücü and Karagümrük are also good teams and they eliminated Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe. A surprise team can also win the cup. We may continue to see surprise results in the cup this year. We must be open to everything.

It's a very strange system and such things usually happen in Turkey.
Why is there a double elimination system in the semi-finals? If there is to be a double elimination system in the quarter finals, there should also be a double elimination system.

I think Beşiktaş will win the cup this year, but I'm not sure.

The cup has a very interesting structure. Although it has changed for the following seasons, this season the semi-final is a double-elimination. It's strange that only the semi-final is double-elimination while all the rounds are single matches. But this is to the advantage of the big teams. Because if they make a mistake in one match, they have a chance to make up for it in the next one. From this point of view, I see Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor far ahead. This will probably be the final we will watch. Since both teams had a bad season in the league, this trophy is the only hope they have left, the only present they can give to their fans.

After Fenerbahçe was eliminated from the cup, now Galatasaray said goodbye to the cup. When the 2 favorites of the cup were eliminated from the cup, the chances of other teams increased. I think Beşiktaş has a better chance among these teams. They will at least get the cup, they will not want to lose the only cup they have in terms of success this season. The elimination of 2 teams will mean more focus on the league, but there is a very important derby match coming up that could decide the fate of the league.

Both Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe were eliminated in the quarter-finals and said goodbye to the cup early without even reaching the semi-finals. The fans, who always talked about winning the championship and winning all the trophies, became demoralized when they only had the league left. Only one team will win that league cup, meaning one team will end the season without a cup. Both teams were very disappointing to their fans in the Turkish Cup.
Now, Beşiktaş is the biggest favorite of this cup, as it was from the very beginning, and now they can reach the cup in a much easier way. But they must win the cup by preparing and playing very seriously, without underestimating the opponent while playing the matches. Everyone expects this from them.

Another surprise result in the Turkish Cup. Galatasaray lost 2-0 to Fatih Karagümrük at home and was eliminated from the cup. Galatasaray players had very poor performances, especially Tete and Zaha. Fatih Karagümrük will face Trabzonspor in the semi-final match. In the quarter-final round, the two most favorites of the cup, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, were eliminated.

Galatasaray was also eliminated from the cup tonight. Fatih Karagümrük played well and won the game.
Trabzonspor's opponent was Fatih Karagümrük, this is good news for Trabzonspor because they were matched with an easy opponent.

The final will most probably be Beşiktaş - Trabzonspor.

It was a terrifying first half for Galatasaray. Karagümrük's goal was scored by Marcao in the early minutes of the first half. Even though Galatasaray had enough time to change the score in the first half, there was no good play. Tete was very bad. Okan Buruk took him aside on time.

If he had stayed on the field a little longer, he would have made the fans more angry. Okan Buruk made changes to Mertens and Kerem, strengthened the center well, and they will manage to establish the necessary pressure and play in the second half. It is difficult to predict how it will turn out.

Galatasaray is currently losing to Fatih Karagümrük.
Galatasaray is not playing well, either it is underestimating its opponent or it does not care much about the cup. If the game ends like this, Trabzonspor and Fatih Karagümrük will play in the semi-finals.

Quarter-final matches have taken place and really showed very great match but there was one match that surprised me, namely Fenerbahce defeat against Ankaragucu with humiliating score of 3 - 0.
Fenerbahce is very strong team in the Turkish Super League because they are in 2nd place with 70 points and only suffered 1 defeat while Ankaragucu is in 15th position with 29 points and 10 defeats.
I saw how everyone who was Fenerbahce fan was really disappointed by this defeat and it was very clear that their coach did not believe that his players could be beaten by lower team in the Turkish Super League competition.
Fenerbahce lost in the 2024 Turkish Cup and it is clear who will advance to the semifinals so we will see much fiercer match.

Ankaragucu, Trabzonspor and Besiktas have finished the quarter-final matches by emerging as winners and they will compete in the next schedule in the semifinals.
There is still one match left between Galatasaray and Karagumruk and now the first half has finished with Karagumruk leading with one goal thanks to Amaral Alves in the first 6 minutes of the first half.
If Galatasaray loses then this will be very interesting competition for the title because the top two team from the Turkish Super League failed in the 2024 Turkish Cup competition and of course the semifinals could be really more difficult to predict.
And if Galatasaray really loses and falls then it is clear that Besiktas and Trabzonspor are the team that have chance to win the title, I want to see them in the final and hopefully in the semifinals these two team will not meet if Galatasaray falls.

Galatasaray are in trouble after conceding an early goal. Karagümrük scored in the first half with Marcao and Galatasaray failed to respond. The second half will be more difficult for them. Will Galatasaray also be eliminated from the cup and focus only on the league like Fenerbahçe? They opened the season with a target of 4 cups and there's a possibility that they only have the league left. They will play with more pressure in the second half. However, they can also make a mistake in defense and concede the 2nd goal as a result of this pressure. A difficult 45 minutes left for Galatasaray. Tete didn't look good, a substitution is needed.

Last season, Fenerbahçe had a weak squad but a quality coach, this season it has a quality squad but a weak coach. A quality coach and a strong squad do not coexist at the same time in Fenerbahçe.

Beşiktaş finished another match without conceding a goal. Beşiktaş's goals were scored by Salih Uçan and Cenk Tosun. Like Trabzonspor, Beşiktaş's performance has been increasing in recent weeks.

Beşiktaş won comfortably and advanced to the semi-finals.
Ankaragücü and Beşiktaş will play in the semi-final, I think it will not be an easy game, Ankaragücü played really well against Fenerbahçe yesterday.

Trabzonspor's opponent will be determined tomorrow, they will most likely match Galatasaray.

I confess that I am surprised by the results of that cup, Fenerbahce lost in a very humiliating way, they didn't even manage to score at least 1 goal, they conceded 3 goals in a game that I expected them to be able to win, but unfortunately Fenerbahce lost, they didn't. I know if they lost because they want to stay focused on the league because they have very tight points compared to Galatasaray, it's difficult to know. But winning a cup is also a good thing because it's a trophy. Another game that had a result that surprised me was the Besikitas game, they won very easily, they managed to score 2 goals and didn't concede a single goal, that's something very important for the team.

trabzospor also managed to win, but it was a game in which there was only one goal, it seemed to me to be the type of game without much emotion and few opportunities to score, as I didn't watch the full game I could be wrong in my analysis. Today we have the Galatasaray game, I thought about betting on them but then I changed my mind and preferred to bet on other teams, because these cup games are the type of games with very unpredictable results, even big teams can lose against teams considered very weak, that's because Coaches define their priorities and when there are many other important games to save players they can shoot in cup games so I don't risk placing a bet on that game

Beşiktaş played a strong game and again finished the match with a clean sheet. It's a very promising development that the problems in defense are over. Beşiktaş hasn't conceded a goal for many games. Besides, they are starting to be effective on offense but they need to be much better. They don't have the attacking variety and the number of positions to dominate the match. The utilization of the chances created is also low. If they solve this issue, Santos can give hope for the championship. For now, there is a team that is playing the game necessary for the cup. The semi-final will not be too difficult. Since Fenerbahçe is eliminated, Beşiktaş will comfortably beat Ankaragücü and reach the final.