Fenerbahçe: 5 - Honved: 1

(http://www.cnnturk.com/2009/spor/futbol/07/30/fenerbahce.honvede.gol.yagdirdi/537245.0/)

Last year Fenerbahçe finished the league in 4th place with Spanish coach Luis Aragones who was the coach of Spanish National Team when they won EURO 2008. When he first became the new coach of Fenerbahçe (after they cancelled Arthur Zico's deal) he was thought to be succesful there. Everyone thought that he could bring discipline and controlled playing style to Fenerbahçe. At the beginning of the season Fenerbahçe seemed to be very succesful. But after several matches, the problems started; the players in bench were not so effective players, Luis Aragones always made the team play with the same tactic, the midfielders couldn't contribute the team very well and the Spanish striker Daniel Guiza (who was transferred for €14m from R.C.D Mallorca) was lack of condition and couldn't score so many goals during the season. So, after the season finished, they sacked Luis Aragones and came an agreement with the German coach, Christoph Daum.

Despite these problems, Fenerbahçe was a little bit better than Galatasaray. They played final in Turkish Cup (Fortis Türkiye Kupası) but lost against Beşiktaş JK. And finished the season in 4th place thanks to Daniel Guiza's last minute strike against Trabzonspor in the last match of the season (2-1). So, they got the chance to play one less qualifying round in UEFA Europa League.

The first-leg against Honved FC was the first important match for Fenerbahçe in 2009-2010 season. Before the match had started, the coach of Honved F.C said that he knew how difficult the match would be. Actually he was right! Fenerbahçe scored the first goal with Roberto Carlos' free kick. But then he was injured and substituted with Deivid De Souza. Fenerbahçe scored two more goals at the first half with Daniel Guiza at the 30th and 40th minutes. The score was 3-0 at the first half. At the second half Guiza scored one more goal at the 61th minute. Then the captain Alex De Souza scored the fifth goal for Fenerbahçe at 69th minute. 9 minutes later Zsolnai scored the only goal for Honved FC with a header. So, the match ended 5-1.

I think that Fenerbahçe created a good team with new transfers. They empowered their squad with Fabio Alves Da Silva Bilica, André Santos, Cristian, Mehmet Topuz, Özer Hurmacı and Bekir Irtegün. Especially Bilica, Santos and Cristian contributed to the team very well. Fenerbahçe won the match with their quality players and experience. Honved were too weak to defend their goal and they were so inexperienced. After the M.Netanya-Galatasaray match ended, before the Fenerbahçe-Honved match started, I said to my friend (who is a Fenerbahçe fan) that Fenerbahçe was going to win the match by scoring 5 goals. It was true, they won the match with a good play and they deserved such a victory. Good start to the new season!