Good News and Bad News: Trabzonspor 3-2 Fenerbahçe

Title challenger Fenerbahçe’s inconsistency continued with a defeat by a valiant Trabzonspor at Avni Aker Stadium. First half goals from Mehmet Topuz (o.g.), Ibrahim Yattara and Arkadiusz Glowacki were enough to secure the win for Trabzonspor side who managed by Coach Şenol Güneş.  

Fenerbahçe’s Captain Alex de Souza and youngster Miroslav Stoch has been rested for Thursday night’s Europa League play-off and they both surprisingly started from the bench yesterday aganist Maroon-Blues. 

Good News: Homegrown goalkeeper Mert Günok gave a solid performance and saved a penalty. New signing Mamdou Niang has shown that he has a great strength and the ability to hold up the ball well and could play very well alongside Semih Şentürk and Alex de Souza. The Yellow Canaries applied some late pressure on second half but a resolute Trabzonspor deservedly held on for three points.

Bad News: the problems for Fenerbahçe were lack of quality on defense and a balanced midfield line. Trabzonspor wingers Alanzinho-Yattara attacked very well by reason of wing backs Gökhan Gönül-André Santos couldn’t protect their positional awarness in the whole match. Box-to-box player Selçuk İnan and strong midfielder Ceyhun Gülselam caused lots of threat for Trabzonspor especially first balls and through balls were real danger against Fenerbahçe to overcome the limited midfield players. Last night Cristian Baroni has shown that he’s completely incompetent player to play in Fenerbahçe.

Fenerbahçe will play with Paok on Thursday 26 August for Europa League play-off second leg (0-1 agg.) at Şükrü Saraçoğlu.

Match Details:

Reff:Bünyamin Gezer, Erdinç Sezertam, Asım Yusuf Öz.

Trabzonspor: Onur, Serkan, Glowacki (Giray 64), Egemen, Cale, Ceyhun, Selçuk Inan, Gustavo Colman, Alanzinho(Umut 46 ), Ibrahim Yattara(Barış Ataş 85), Teofilo.
Subs: Tolga, Mert Ege, Burak, Jaja
Coach: Şenol Güneş

Fenerbahçe: Mert Günok, Gökhan Gönül, Lugona, Bilica, Andre Santos, Özer Hurmacı, Christian Baroni(Alex 75), Emre, Mehmet Topuz(Selçuk Şahin  68), Semih Şentürk(Miroslav Stoch 39), Mamadou Niang.
Subs: Ertuğrul, Bekir, İlhan, Caner
Coach: Aykut Kocaman

Goals: Mehmet Topuz (14 o.g.) Yattara (16), Glowacki (29) (Trabzonspor), Lugano (28), Mehmet Topuz (42) (Fenerbahçe)
Booked: Egemen, Ceyhun, Onur, Barış Ataş (Trabzonspor), Christian (Fenerbahçe)

Category: Fenerbahce Team News