Before the Super Cup Final Match... (Match Preview)

Tonight the Turkish Super Cup final will be played between Beşiktaş JK and Fenerbahçe SK. Last season Beşiktaş won the championship both in Turkish League and in Turkish Cup. But as you know they cannot win the Super Cup automatically, so they have to play against Fenerbahçe SK because Fenerbahçe played final in Turkish Cup but lost against the other Istanbul side.

Analysis:

Fenerbahçe: Before the season had started, Fenerbahçe added some important and key players such as Brazilian players; Andre Dos Santos, Cristian and Fabio Alves Da Silva Bilica and Turkish players; Mehmet Topuz, Özer Hurmacı and Bekir Irtegun. Now they have better players than last year both in the field and on the bench. As we could see in FB-Honved match, Fenerbahçe seem almost completely ready for the new season and players don't have adaptation problem. Actually most of the foreign players in the squad are Brazilian players except the Spanish striker Daniel Guiza. Team's passing is very good and they have many options; different players who can easily score, effective wingers and different tactical variations to score goals just like we saw in FB-Honved Match.

Beşiktaş: Beşiktaş empowered their squad with Matteo Ferrari, Michael Fink, Nihat Kahveci, Ismail Köybaşı and Erhan Güven. But lost two center-back players; Gökhan Zan (signed for Galatasaray) and Tomas Zapotocny (was loaned to Bursaspor) and their right back Serdar Kurtuluş (was transferred to Gaziantepspor). They seem to have some problems with defence. But actually in last two matches against Lyon and Porto in Peace Cup, their defence played really well. They just conceded one goal against strong teams (The results were 1-1 and 0-0). Their captain Mathias Delgado was injured and probably it will affect their attack. But they still have good attacking midfielders and strikers: Yusuf Şimşek, Bobo, Mert Nobre, Filip Holosko and Nihat Kahveci. And also their central midfielders are two hard-working German players: Fabian Ernst and Michael Fink. They help the whole team to play comfortable by helping both to defence and to attack. Their players are used to playing with each other and they don't have a problem with team chemistry.

Prediction:

Fenerbahçe:3 Beşiktaş:1

Even though Beşiktaş's defence is strong and compact, Fenerbahçe seems more advantageous. They have very effective attacking players such as team's leader Alex De Souza, Daniel Guiza, Dos Santos, Colin Kazım Richards and their left and right backs (especially right-back Gökhan Gönül) contribute to the attacks very well. Beşiktaş cannot score goals as easily as Fenerbahçe do. So, I think that Fenerbahçe can win the match 3-1 or maybe 2-1 just like they did 2 seasons ago against (again) Beşiktaş (at the beginning of 2007-2008 season, match ended 2-1).