Topic: Turkish Cup 2024 - page 6. (Read 889 times)

Fenerbahce have won important matches in the race for the league title and they continue on their way without any problems. A new adventure begins for Fenerbahce in the Super League. Fenerbahce is strong in terms of squad depth and will rotate well in the Turkish Cup matches. I think they have enough squad for this.
Adanaspor have been inefficient this season and are up against a team in great form. Fenerbahce will have a comfortable win against Adana.

There are literally no favourites for Turkish cup because when bigger Turkish clubs are not on their good day/form, they can all be very easily eliminated. There are so many disaster moments in Turkish cup rounds. Especially in first rounds sometimes, players are not well motivated. Also coach rotates team so that mean below average players playing. Those players very likely don't have any past match together so they will experience chemistry issues too.

Galatasaray might not actually be the current leaders in the Turkish Super Lig but I still consider them as the strongest Turkish team at the moment and that's because I think they have greater number of top quality players than any other club in the country. Fenerbahce who currently occupies the first position of the Turkish league standings is the other strong team that's capable of stopping Galatasaray. So I think the two teams are my favorites to win the Turkish Cup this season.

This will be risky match I assume because Fenerbahçe focuses on Süper Lig for sure. Actually Fenerbahçe has very deep squad to rotate especially against weak teams like Adanaspor. I am expecting Fenerbahçe win as all others expect but I don't think score difference will be that much. 2-0 clean win may actually be good bet here. Or just 3-1. If Fenerbahçe has bad experience in match pretty sure they will let bigger names on pitch to secure themselves.

I think there was another referee scandal in the Turkish Cup yesterday, but since Rizespor was not a big team, it was not talked about much.
Sarper Barış Saka 90+4. He gave a penalty in favor of Ankaragücü in the minute. I think it has nothing to do with the penalty, but the referee gave it to him. While many people thought that VAR would come back, there was no VAR in this tour. I'm sure if the referee watched the position again, he would never give a penalty but (I guess he thought I would get beaten too 😂🤔)
Tolga Ciğerci scored the penalty goal for Ankaragücü and made the score 2-1. Then, while Rizespor was attacking to find a draw, they made another penalty from the counter attack. (What penalty this time) Morutan scored this penalty and the match ended 3-1.
If the penalty decision given against Rizespor had been against Fenerbahçe or Galatasaray (unlikely), it would have been talked about a lot. Rizespor was eliminated and who cares?

Fenerbahçe will face Adanaspor tomorrow.Fenerbahçe is of course the heavy favorite and I expect a decisive victory in this match.Fenerbahçe will start some players on the bench for rotation purposes and it is likely that there will be a predominance of new transfers and young players among the players who will get time.Thus, Fenerbahçe team will be able to determine the exact players who will go and who will stay.
I expect perhaps one of the most enjoyable matches of the day to be played between Antalyaspor and Pendikspor, both teams have the potential to score plenty of goals.

The match went exactly as I expected and Beşiktaş played a strong game. There was a team on the pitch who wanted to win, who were ambitious and eager. I expected a lot of goals, 4 goals were scored. There could have been more. Some of the players I expected didn't play, a different team took the field from the possible line-up. But everyone tried to do their best.
Beşiktaş is through to the last 16. These rounds are easy for the big teams, no surprises. The real tournament will start after the quarter finals.

almost all teams in the first league managed to obtain good results, with the exception of kasimpasa who lost against an opponent that on paper they were supposed to be able to beat without having too many difficulties, but kasimpasa, despite being in the first league and in a position well above the zone of relegation they still lost against a team that is not in the first league. I confess I was surprised by Kasimpasa's defeat, they could have managed to win, but it's unbelievable that they couldn't at least score 1 goal, conceded 1 goal and couldn't score at least 1 goal. I don't know what is happening with kasimpasa, in the first league they had 2 consecutive defeats, and something that can be acceptable because we are talking about the first league

but when they play against a team that is not in the first league and they cannot score at least 1 goal and lose the game, then their situation is dire. The other teams like Besikitas took advantage of the situation they found themselves in very well, as they were playing against a weak opponent, Besikitas scored 4 goals and didn't concede any goals, it was definitely a victory that leaves Besikitas players more motivated, especially in attack. , because even playing against a weak opponent, it still takes skills to win and score 4 goals and not concede a single goal. Congratulations to the besikitas. Congratulations also go to the other teams that won the games

Eyüpspor, managed by Arda Turan, had no chance anyway. It was obvious that they couldn't even score a goal. Beşiktaş scored 4 goals and passed. Eyüpspor had a total of 1 shot in the match, and it didn't hit the target. Arda Turan probably didn't have time to train the team while he was thinking about the money he lost to fraudsters.
Beşiktaş won by playing very easily and boosted morale. Salih Uçan, Cenk Tosun and Ante Rebic scored goals and improved their statistics. It was also nice that the young players got time.

Beşiktaş beat its weak opponent with different scores and advanced to the next round.
Beşiktaş always wins with different scores in the last games.

Fenerbahçe-Adanaspor game tomorrow, I don't think Fenerbahçe will have difficulty, they will get a comfortable victory.

Ankaragücü managed to defeat Rize with the goals scored in the second half and made their name in the next round.The first half of the match was scoreless, but the second half was more exciting.Ankaragücü, who took the lead in the 57th minute, equalized the situation with a goal in the 83rd minute.Ankaragücü, who surprisingly won a penalty in the extra time minutes, went 2-1 ahead and 3 minutes after the penalty, they won a penalty again and this was a goal.They eliminated their opponent with a score of 3-1 in total.
In the last match of the day Beşiktaş managed to defeat Arda Turan's team Eyüpspor.It was not a very difficult match for Beşiktaş.They defeated their opponent 4-0 with the goals of Salih Uçan, Cenk Tosun and Rebic.

Basiktas is delivering as expected with 4:0 defeat, but it is actually disappointing to see that Eyupspor could not even score a single goal. I never expected that the team that is at the top of the second division could not score against inconsistent Basiktas, who are 18 points behind Fenerbahce the leading team in Turkish Super League.

Fenerbahce will face Adanaspor tomorrow in their round 5 encounter,  a match I will give to the home side who are my favourite to lift the trophy. 

There were many matches in the 5th round of the Ziraat Turkish Cup and most of them were concluded. The most surprising result was that Bandırmaspor beat Kasımpaşa. It is not acceptable for them to lose to a team from the lower league, anyway, they are not a favorite team anyway.

It will most likely be a cup that one of the big four will win. I don't actually keep Beşiktaş in this group. I assume that Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe will be a cup that one of the two teams will win.

My favorite in this cup is Fenerbahçe because Fenerbahçe's squad has been expanded in the transfer window to be able to handle both league matches, European Cup matches and this tournament. Fenerbahçe will play Adanaspor tomorrow. They will probably start with a squad consisting of substitutes. However, we can say that they are the favorites for tomorrow's match and for the next matches in the tournament. Players like Bonucci and Krunic will strengthen the squad rotation. We had some difficulties with this in the first half of the season, but we won't have such a problem in the second half of the season.

There are Turkish Cup 5th round matches at tonight. Beşiktaş will face Eyüpspor a few later.

Beşiktaş's starting XI against Eyüpspor: Mert, Onur, Necip, Zaynutdinov, Umut, Demir Ege, Salih, Gedson, Ghezzal, Rebic, Cenk.

Eyüpspor's starting XI against Beşiktaş: Berke, Metehan, Uğur, Clairo, Ömer, Bekir, Seslar, Melih, Mete Kaan, Ahmed, Mustafa.

I can say that the teams managed by Hüseyin Eroğlu are really surprising.Eroğlu, who finished 1st in the league with samsunspor last season and led them to the super league, took over bandırmaspor this season.We have to say that they are not doing badly in the league again.They managed to go to the next round by defeating Kasımpaşa away from home.
Fatih Karagümrük and Hatayspor, on the other hand, managed to defeat their opponents as favorites.There were no surprises in the matches.Volkan Demirel and Tuncay Şanlı, as former teammates, faced the teams they managed this time.Hatayspor is superior in terms of squad, so it is very normal for them to win.

The 5th round of the Turkish Cup is being played starting from today.

Bandırmaspor made today's surprise. 1st League team Bandırmaspor eliminated Super League team Kasımpaşa by beating them 1-0. Kasımpaşa took 16 shots in the match but couldn't score a goal. Bandırmaspor's only shot on target was a goal.

Beşiktaş and Eyüpspor will play in the important match of the day. Beşiktaş, who wants to win this cup this year, will not let it be a surprise. I expect them to win the match easily by scoring an early goal with an effective game. It looks like Svensson will be in the starting 11 for the first time. Emrecan Terzi, Demir Ege and Semih are expected to be in the first 11 again. Gedson, Ghezzal and Muleka will also play alongside the youngsters. I think this squad is enough to win the match.

I think the big teams will have an easy this step. But it is difficult to predict the next steps for now. For example, will Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe be eliminated from European cups or not? If they are not eliminated, they will have a very busy fixture. And they may not be able to focus on the Turkish Cup.

I also think there will be no big surprises except one. There is a slight possibility about Beşiktaş - Eyüpspor game that can be surprise. Caner Erkin and Arda Turan will do everything they can to beat Beşiktaş. I'm sure they will be extra motivated. If Beşiktaş continues to be out of form during the time of this match, we may see a surprise in the favor of Eyüpspor. Except this, this round will probably without any interesting results.

The 5th round draw of the Turkish Cup have been announced. In this round, 32 teams will play in a single-elimination format and try to qualify for the last 16 rounds. Matches will be played on January 9-10-11. Here is the draw results:

Beşiktaş - Eyüpspor
VavaCars Fatih Karagümrük - Tuna Tarım Kırklarelispor
RAMS Başakşehir - Boluspor
Corendon Alanyaspor - Yılport Samsunspor
EMS Yapı Sivasspor - Ankara Keçiörengücü
Fenerbahçe - Adanaspor
Galatasaray - Ümraniyespor
Gaziantep FK - Bodrumspor
MKE Ankaragücü - Çaykur Rizespor
Atakaş Hatayspor - Sakaryaspor
Bitexen Antalyaspor - Siltaş Yapı Pendikspor
Kasımpaşa - Teksüt Bandırmaspor
Mondihome Kayserispor - Gençlerbirliği
TÜMOSAN Konyaspor - Göztepe
Yukatel Adana Demirspor - Anagold 24Erzincanspor
Trabzonspor - Manisa FK

I don't think there will be any surprises for the big teams in this round, but we need to watch the matches. As a result, we may see serious rotations that will challenge the teams to compete in every tournament.