Monday, 10 August 2009

General Overview: The First Week of Turkish League


The first week of Turkish league finished. It's too early to make a comment yet about how the 2009-2010 season will be. In the first week, 20 goals were scored by 18 teams in 9 matches.

The new season beginned with İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor-Beşiktaş match. The last champions, Beşiktaş, couldn't win the match and the match ended as a draw: 1-1. Michael Fink, Beşiktaş's midfielder scored a goal in the 29th minute with a long-distance shot. But just after 2 minutes, İbrahim Akın who was a former Beşiktaş player scored a goal for İBB. He skipped past 3 players and shot the ball with his left foot. In the rest of the match, Beşiktaş played with the ball and attacked more than İBB but couldn't score one more goal and win the game.

One of the other important matches was played between Gaziantepspor and Galatasaray SK. Galatasaray SK won the match 3-2 with captain Arda Turan, Mustafa Sarp and Shabani Nonda's goals. Gaziantepspor's goals were scored by Julio Cesar and Rodrigo Tabat (penalty kick). Galatasaray won a very difficult match against a strong team, the temperature was too hot and it was too hard to play with those conditions.

In the last match of the week, Fenerbahçe played against Denizlispor in Denizli and won the match 2-0 thanks to Daniel Guiza's strikes in 1st and 87th minutes. The match was stopped about 40 minutes because of the electricity problem in the stadium. It beginned on Sunday but ended on Monday :) ! Fenerbahçe was more effective in attacks and that was how they won the match.

The results of the other matches:

Antalyaspor:0 Ankaraspor:1
Diyarbakırspor:2 Ankaragücü:2
Sivasspor:1 Trabzonspor:2
Gençlerbirliği:0 Kayserispor:0
Bursaspor:2 Kasımpaşa:1
Manisaspor:0 Eskişehirspor:0

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