Topic: Turkish Super League 2024/25 Season - page 73. (Read 13894 times)

Beşiktas' convincing win against Antalyaspor in the Turkish Super Lig over the weekend I think was the best way to send a strong message to the rest of the teams in the league of how prepared they are as a team to challenge for the league title and any other available competition in the country. That game was one of the games I did stake my bet on with the option of a home win but little did I know it'll be as convincing as what we saw yesterday. Ciro Immobile was at his best in that game and could've grabbed a hattrick. The Turkish Super Lig this season will be interesting because I expect serious competition between Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Beşiktas

Dude please stop saying Besikitas, it's Beşiktaş. There isn't one more "i" in the name.

Antalyaspor is a strong opponent but Beşiktaş knows how to beat them. Beşiktaş's offensive power this season is already very high. We are the best attacking team in the league. This season is very different from last year. We are the biggest candidate for the championship. When you are the favorite, you don't have the luxury of losing points in such matches. Get used to seeing different victories from now on.

I don't think Fenerbahçe's squad is inadequate. Think about how many players from Göztepe were in the first lower league. One player from Fenerbahçe is probably equal to 5-10 players from Göztepe. Mourinho's statement is also quite ridiculous, of course, when he can't win, he says he's a stranger here.

Fenerbahçe raised expectations this year, but the 11th year will be unsuccessful again at this rate, they only make you feel that way.

Well, I believe that your prediction about Antalyaspor coach being fired too early has a good chance of being right. Antalyaspor lost a game in which they could have at least managed a draw if they had focused on defense and not made some serious mistakes. It seemed that Antalyaspor's players had no strength in their legs. There were situations in which even a player with average defensive skills would have been able to defend better than Antalyaspor's defense. The case of Beşiktaş's second goal was due to Thalisson Kelven's mistake in not heading the ball and allowing the Beşikitas player to get the ball and then it was Veysel Sarı's fault that he fell and allowed the Beşikitas player to assist Immobile to score the second goal. I see that Antalyaspor has serious problems in defense.

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Konyaspor 1 - 2 Galatasaray (this is the second game that Galatasaray has conceded a goal, it seems to me that they are winning the games with some difficulty)

Goztepe 2 - 2 Fenerbahce (Mourinho needs to improve the squad, with this squad he will hardly be able to become champion, the elimination from the qualifying phase of the European Champions League showed that Fenerbahce has a very weak squad)


source: https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/40914450/jose-mourinho-turkish-football-foreign-one

Besikitas 4 - 2 Antalyaspor (Besikitas has a good squad this season, the Besikitas coach is to be congratulated, he has assembled a good team and I think it is a team with the potential to become champion)

Eyüpspor vs Bodrum FK will be an interesting match. These two teams entered the league this season. They are the new teams of the league. But Eyüpspor signed some good footballers in the transfer season. They signed former Galatasaray player Emre Akbaba, Fredrik Midtsjø, former Beşiktaş player Dorukhan Toköz, Tayfur Bingöl and Umut Meraş. Also, they signed players with Super League experience such as Halil Akbunar and Mame Thiam. Eyüpspor are better than Bodrum FK in terms of squad quality. I see Eyüpspor as the favorite in this match.

We watched a game with lots of goals tonight. Beşiktaş beat Antalyaspor 4-2.    Antalyaspor scored a very early goal in the 23rd second but couldn't keep the score.
Beşiktaş played well tonight and they made it 6 points in the league.
The red card is correct.
I don't understand how Emirhan's position was offside.

Fenerbahçe team could win this match but they could finish this match with win. The players of Fenerbahçe team looked in pressure in the last time and we saw  good performance by Göztepe team in the end because they attacked well and did back to back two goals. Both teams did all efforts to win this match but no team became successful in this case. I think captains of both teams should learn from their mistakes because that was pressure situation in last minutes and any team could win this match but both teams set defensive fielding and we saw no result of this match. I appreciate to Göztepe because after facing to goals of Fenerbahçe team ,they played with confidence and did not fall their weapons.

We played very well again and beat Antalyaspor. The game ended 4-2 but we could have scored 7-8 goals. There were too many wasted positions. The goal in the first seconds didn't spoil the plans too much. Beşiktaş made us feel that they would score goals and turn the match around. Immobile and Rafa Silva played close to perfection again. Ndour's assist was incredible. Rashica was good, he made assists. Beşiktaş could have scored more goals but this score is good. At the end of the second week, we continue the league as leaders.

Fenerbahçe lost 2 points away to Göztepe despite taking the lead. After leading 2-0 at half-time, Fenerbahçe's form suffered in the second half. Fenerbahce struggled to play a clear-cut game, conceding 2 goals and drawing 2-2. We can say that the lack of midfield was clearly felt in the team and Dzeko and Tadic were not in their old form. I wonder why 38-year-old Dzeko was not taken off until the end of the game, was it a message to the management?

Most of us would like to see him being permanent in the Super League undoubtedly. He is one of the legends in Turkish football.    However as for his management skills, I have big doubts for now as well.

It won't be easy for him to retain his job if these bad results remain to be seen. All the friendlies they played ended up with losses. The first match of the Super League also ended by getting only one point. This evening probably Beşiktaş will also beat them. Not every impressive player is able to do a good job in a manager career I'm afraid. For example I really like Okan Buruk. He has got nice achievements with Galatasaray so far.

Beşiktaş vs Antalyaspor is one of the most interesting matches of the day. Beşiktaş started the season with very good transfers. Rafa Silva and Ciro Immobile took Beşiktaş's offensive line to a very advanced level. They adapted to the team immediately and contributed to the score. That's how they won the Super Cup and the season's first game. They started the season really well. On the other hand, Antalyaspor will be under Alex De Souza this season. Last season they were under Nuri Sahin. Then Borussia Dortmund transferred Nuri Sahin. This season they gave a chance to another young manager. They are starting the season with a new team and a new mentality. I see Beşiktaş as the favorite in this match.

Situation from the start is not good as things are going most chances we will be having some mess-up in coming days because if President will be on field in every game and José Mourinho losing points this is surely troubling start of the season with already lost place in Champions League now most chances in early rounds we will have difference of points Fenerbahçe is going to be had double pressure they need to fix things off the field if they fail then surely we will be having no good end of this.

In last few minutes we have troubles for them with after having two goals lead they concede both in second half mean they were feeling relax, but we have good punishment for them from Goztepe now next game is going to be better because fans will never accept results like these from them.

This is about football, on paper Fenerbahce won but on the field of course it is different, which supporter does not want the club they support to win every match? Of course everyone wants it, but again football is a game full of surprises, whoever is ready to work hard to play, he will win, of course in last night's match both teams played well, Goztepe benefited as the host and Fenerbahce benefited from their line-up. Sharing points for both teams at the end of the session was the end for both parties, another thing I question is the referee's decision to give a penalty, in my opinion it was the wrong decision, the referee should have taken steps by looking at VAR first.

this is still the beginning of the journey for Fenerbahce, other matches are still waiting and the chances are still high, there is no need to doubt just because you have bad luck with 1 point, and for Ali Koc who received unpleasant behavior, the authorities have arrested the perpetrator,
source: https://www.ntvspor.net/futbol/ali-koc-a-saldiran-zanli-icin-karar-verildi-66c1ca05ec7add04396d58ea

There is a match between Beşiktaş and Antalyaspor today and I believe that Beşiktaş will win very easily.
Alex is the head coach of Antalyaspor, but I do not think he will be a good coach. At least not recently. If he had held on in his own country, he would not have come to Turkey immediately. I give him 5-6 weeks at most as the head of Antalyaspor. After that period, he is dismissed.
I hope I'm wrong...

I think there will be serious problems between Ali Koç and Mourinho in 1-2 months. Both are dominant characters and Mourinho is just getting used to this country right now, he may adopt a very different attitude after a little more time.
The fans are also very angry, it is not normal to still lose points when you have such a good team and a good squad. The fans expect them to score 3-4 goals in every match and beat their opponents

Beşiktaş, who started the season as the leader by being the only team to beat their rival by 2 goals in the first week, gave hope to their fans. After the glorious Super Cup victory, such a start to the league has boosted everyone's morale. The new transfers have been very harmonious, which has improved the mood in the team.

Beşiktaş will play Antalyaspor at home in the second week of the season and say hello to their fans with this match. Beşiktaş will apply the same tariff to Antalyaspor as they did to Samsunspor in the first week. I expect goals from Rafa and Immobile. It's also important to finish this match with a clean sheet. Sam Larsson and Braian Samudio failed to score against Göztepe in the first week. They will be blocked again by Mert Günok this time. Antalyaspor had great strikers like Adam Buksa and Sagiv Jehezkel last season. This year they don't have that power. I expect a comfortable Beşiktaş win.

The criticisms from commentators I don't think was surprising considering the fact that Fenerbahce is now being managed by Jose Mourinho. As one of the most successful and popular managers in Europe and the most successful in Turkish Super Lig at the moment, football pundits expects nothing but near perfection from Jose Mourinho and his players. Losing two points at Izmir was a poor result for Fenerbahce but I don't think it's going to define their league. I think Mourinho will improve the team to do better in games to come.

How right is it that Ali Koç is on the field in every match? Which team's president do you see on the field this much?
Ali Koç is doing himself and Fenerbahçe a disgrace.

I think Fenerbahçe did not play well tonight and lost 2 points.
Mourinho had many mistakes tonight and this cost him 2 points.

F.Bahçe lost points in Izmir and many commentators immediately started criticizing it. The situation will be different as Mourinho gets to know the league and the players better.
Points lost tonight will remain as work accidents.
The league is a long marathon and it is always possible to compensate for these points losses.
However, the behavior towards Ali Koç in the match was not pleasant at all. If the league is like this already, it seems like the end of the season will be difficult.

Fenerbahçe played an up and down game against Göztepe today. After failing to make effective attacks in the first half, Fenerbahçe started the second half comfortably with two goals in the last minutes of the first half. Fenerbahçe played a more effective game in the second half and kept trying to find the third goal, but they couldn't find it. When Fenerbahçe couldn't find the third goal, they started to feel the pressure and then the tension in the stands broke the atmosphere of the team.

We can't ignore Mourinho's bad decisions in this match. Mourinho made mistakes from the beginning of the game and he didn't have the same lineup as he had at Fenerbahçe. İrfan Can not playing against Göztepe was a huge fiasco. It was shocking that Dzeko, who ran out of batteries, played 90 minutes. The fact that he didn't take Tadic out of the game shows us Mourinho's tactical mistakes.