Topic: Turkish Super League 2020 Season (Read 939 times)

Due to the fact that unexpected pandemic hit the world, I think this season should not be counted at all. Closed the thread.

As the league with Turkey began to be played this week as spectators.  The fans showed great interest in the matches on the first and second days.  When we look at the results of the ratings, we can see that this interest is very high.  Speaking according to this data, if the matches were not played without spectators, there would probably be no seats left in the stands.  I follow the matches with excitement and I wonder how Galatasaray, the team I am holding, will perform in the remaining part of the league.

Hi everyone, while we get busy watching the German bundesliga, the Spanish la liga, The Turkish league commences tomorrow.
With the first match since covid to be played between Fenerbahce - Kayserispor and also, Goztepe  - Trabzonspor

The top 4 teams are separated by just 4 points in a season that has been full of surprises, catch a sub of the full table below


Source: https://www.livescore.com/soccer/turkey/super-lig/

Trabznospor were banned from UEFA competitions (Champions or Europa league) for one year for failling to reach financial targets:
https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/newsid=2642073.html
Interesting that they are now in 1st place in Super League, so they are in similar situation like Man City. Trabznospor already announced that they will appeal.

As a result, the teleconference held together with Turkey Football Federation and clubs, the decision was made about the status of Turkey 2019-2020 Super League competition.

* The remaining matches will start on June 12 and will be completed after the 8-week program. It was announced that this decision was also taken unanimously in 18 teams in the league. In addition, the president of the federation announced that 7 teams offered not to fall from the league this year and that the next year's super league competitions should be played with 21 teams.

I look forward to the start of the matches again. I really missed the watch sport activities.

I am not a fan of Turkish league but the decisions of Nigerian football player was straightforwards and clear. The health comes first and the football should'n be only for the profit. The Turkish league is famous with the dark fixed games like all other leagues but the decision of the Trabzonspor clearly shows the intention of the operating as independent soccer team.

I want to inform everyone that the turkish league has equally joined the rest of europe by suspending their league amidst the pandemic around the world.
The suspension though was after a farce between Nigerian international John Mikel Obi, who made a post on social media stating his refusal to play amidst the pandemic and reiterating the desire to move down to his family.

He had his contract terminated by Trabonzspor in a decision creating different opinions in the turkish league.
IS Mikel right to refuse to play ? is trabonzpor supposed to support player refusal or not ?

And the turkish league officials, did they handle the matter well ?

Lets join the discussion

News Link: https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/51939149

Now obviously Turkish league will get more attention, because it's one of few league which didn't stopped to play.
I'm not Turkish football expert, but from what I saw, Basaksehir looks strong, it's very solid team. It's strange to see Fenerbahche far away from Europa zone, but IIRC, they had some financial problems and their squad isn't as good as ut used to be.
But I think it's too early to talk potential Champions, because tomorrow UEFA most likely will stop all leagues in continent.

Source: http://www.livescores.com/soccer/turkey/super-lig/




It remains an interesting scene in the turkish league this year, with Trabzonspor regaining the top spot over the weekend  and also on same point with Basaksehir.

And also, do we not have turkish league spectators on the forum lol  ?

Now that the ban is effective on most europe aside turkey, can we discuss potential turkish league champions ?

Final score:

Gaziantep FK 1 - 1 Trabzonspor
FTGoztepe 0 - 3 Istanbul Basaksehir
FTFenerbahce 2 - 2 Denizlispor


Basaksehir remains top of the standings with 52 points, 3 points clear of second place trabzonspor.


Basaksehir is definitely right on track.

Source: http://www.livescores.com/soccer/turkey/super-lig/

Just as i have stated earlier, the turkish league remains the most exciting and most competitive league in europe this season.
The top teams there are inconsistent and it remains who will win the trophy.

06:00   Gaziantep FK? - ?Trabzonspor
06:00   Goztepe? - ?Istanbul Basaksehir
09:00   Fenerbahce? - ?Denizlispor

With previous match statistic, do you think there will be more goals this weekend ?
I think both teams will score, with 3 matches drawing.

What do you think ?

I am rooting for Basaksehir to win the league come the end of the season

Besiktas won last night.

And this week is so important for championship anymore.

Today

Trabzonspor - Rizespor
Antalya - Fenerbahce

Tomorrow

Galatasaray - Genclerbirligi
Ankaragucu - Sivasspor

Monday

Basaksehir - Gaziantep


This 5 games will be great.

What is your opinion?

Last week Galatasaray took a big advantage.
So, who will take the good results?

My favorite teams are Trabzon and Galatasaray.

Kasımpaşa has not been performing well for more than a year. Last year, they lost 2 important players in the mid transfer season. And I think they still can't replace it. And because of the deteriorated cadre structure, they still have a hard time performing well. Well, Basaksehir should have win this game already.

Basaksehir is winning Kasibasa with 1-0 and I think that they are going to get the win in this game.
Kasibasa is not the opponent who is going to turn the game upside down and in the end win it. Most probably Basak is going to score a second goal instead of conceding one.

As I said this morning. Galatasaray had a squad advantages. And Galatasaray made it!
Blood pressure was very high during the match. And the referee was under pressure for too long. We can say that Galatasaray deserved the victory which came years later.

Now Galatasaray has good advantages. However, Galatasaray has a very challenging fixture. In the next 3 weeks, they have matches with 2 different teams claiming championship. (Beşiktaş and Sivasspor)

 Oh wow what a game! After more than 2 decades of not winning a single game in Kadikoy, Galatasaray finally managed to get the 3 points today. It is both a historical result for the implications of not being able to win for so long, but at the same time this game turned Galatasaray as one of the leading candidates for championship once again after starting the year so bad. After they were eleminated from the Champions League there must be some sort of switch turned on in the locker room and ever since that moment Galatasaray has been playing amazingly. Fenerbahce on the other hand has played very well at the start of the season and looked like they moved beyond last years bad performence but for the past weeks they have been losing constantly, I think they are on a bad streak but have the talent to recover eventually.

I think so. It won't be easy match for both team. Actually Fenerbahce is the favorite for this game but Luiz Gustavo and Rodrigues can't play in this match. Also Lemina has announced that he can't play for Galatasaray tonight.

Lets take a look for both team squads;
Muslera is undoubtedly the best goalkeeper of TSL. Altay is a good goalkeeper also but he is still very young and need some experience.
Galatasaray has no defence double and they are playing with Donk which is midfielder originally. I think Linnes will play left side and he couldn't play any match in this seasons first half. Still Galatasaray's defence line still seem a bit safer than Fenerbahce. Because Fenerbahce has only Serdar Aziz and Jailson is the midfield origin like Donk. Fenerbahce has bought Falette but we can't see him performance fully yet. I don't think he'll play this match. (at least 1st 11.)
As we know, Gustavo had a great performance with Kruse and Muriqi for Fenerbahce. But Galatasaray always changed their midfielder and keep searching best solution still.
And last Muriqi had a great preformance. He is playing well. And Galatasaray fans still don't know that who will play this night for forward. Adem? He is offensive midfielder. Falcao? He just came back from injury...

Will be interesting tonight.

It seems difficult for Galatasaray to win the match against Fenerbahce because even head to head does not take sides for Galatasaray to win when playing away, and also their last 5 matches always end in a draw, so I'm not sure Galatasaray will get 3pts.

Well, first big match in TSL is over.
Besiktas 2-2 Trabzonspor

Both teams could won this game tonight but it has end 2-2.

So tomorrow game between Fenerbahce and Galatasaray matches more important anymore. Because Trabzonspor has left 2 points today.

In Turkish Super League, we're watching the same thing for years. A few teams play well by the end of the year, but eventually one of the big teams wins the championship. For example last year! Basaksehir remained the leader for a long time, but Galatasaray became the champion!

I think we will see same results. Galatasaray or Fenerbahce will get that trophy. I don't think Sivas and Trabzonspor can keep going like this.