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Team Focus: Will Bilic's Besiktas Quartet Fire Them Past Liverpool & to the Title?

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Feb 20 2015 16:48
Team Focus: Will Bilic's Besiktas Quartet Fire Them Past Liverpool & to the Title? Besiktas have good players, a good front four with Demba Ba at the top of it, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers was quoted as saying ahead of the Europa League Round of 32 clash against the Black Eagles.Slaven Bilic’s side are involved in a tight three-horse race at the top of the table, with ...
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Team Focus: Şenol Güneş Whipping up a Storm in Bursa

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Feb 6 2015 16:15
Team Focus: Şenol Güneş Whipping up a Storm in Bursa If Fatih Terim is the Emperor of Turkish football Şenol Güneş is the Sultan. Güneş guided the Crescent-Stars to an unprecedented third-place finish at the 2002 World Cup. The achievement did not however, result in a golden age. The Turkish national side did reach the semi-finals of Euro 20...
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League Focus: The Süper Lig Title Challengers – A Three Horse Race

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Jan 23 2015 15:05
League Focus: The Süper Lig Title Challengers – A Three Horse Race It really is neck and neck at the top of the table this season as 19-time champions Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe are entrenched in battle over who will win a historic 20th league title and earn the right to wear a fourth star on their shirt. All the while, second-placed Beşiktaş are intent on r...
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Player Focus: The Top 5 Süper Lig Youngsters

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Jan 9 2015 16:21
Player Focus: The Top 5 Süper Lig Youngsters Using WhoScored’s unique rating system we look at the top 5 rated young Süper Lig players. The players in the list are all 21 or under and have played in at least half of the 16 games at the midway point in the season. Ahmet Yılmaz Çalık – 7.26Gençlerbirliği means Unio...
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Match Focus: Can Galatasaray Halt the Title Charge of In-Form Besiktas?

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Jan 2 2015 14:47
Match Focus: Can Galatasaray Halt the Title Charge of In-Form Besiktas? The last time Beşiktaş and Galatasaray met at the Atatürk Olympic stadium there were three goals, one red card and a mass pitch invasion that resulted in Gala being awarded an automatic 3-0 win – just another Istanbul derby.The Black Eagles were accused of naivety in last season’s e...
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Team Focus: Avcı's Anti-Football Gives Başakşehir Best Süper Lig Defence

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Dec 12 2014 15:31
Team Focus: Avcı's Anti-Football Gives Başakşehir Best Süper Lig Defence “Attack wins games, defence wins titles,” is a popular saying in the world of football. Başakşehir are not quite of championship-winning calibre yet but they do boast a defensive record only surpassed by Bayern Munich in Europe, with just 5 goals conceded all season. Başakşehir may have ...
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Team Focus: Laptop Man Yanal Off to a Flying Start Back at Trabzonspor

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Nov 28 2014 16:12
Team Focus: Laptop Man Yanal Off to a Flying Start Back at Trabzonspor Managers last an average of seven months in the Süper Lig. That may not seem very long but perhaps you haven’t heard of Trabzonspor. There have been five coaches over a span of one-and-a-half years at the Black Sea Storm. The latest head to role was the straight talking Vahid Halilhodzic....
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Team Focus: Aykut Kocaman – The Fenerbahçe Architect

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Nov 14 2014 14:33
Team Focus: Aykut Kocaman – The Fenerbahçe Architect Fenerbahçe have had a tumultuous few years. From alleged involvement in the match-fixing scandal that rocked the country in 2011 to being suspended from UEFA competitions for two seasons and losing club legend Alex De Souza in rather unceremonious circumstances, the Yellow Canaries were rocke...
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Team Focus: Slaven Bilic and the Besiktas Revolution

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Oct 31 2014 16:08
Team Focus: Slaven Bilic and the Besiktas Revolution “Nobody else wanted to run this club, we were on the verge of collapse,” Fikret Orman stated after his election as Beşiktaş president in 2012. Beşiktaş were in a real mess. The club was in debt to the tune of $325 million, facing 142 lawsuits and suspension from UEFA competitions for bei...
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Match Focus: Make or Break for Both Sides in Turkey's Intercontinental Derby

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Oct 17 2014 16:51
Match Focus: Make or Break for Both Sides in Turkey's Intercontinental Derby “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that,” Bill Shankly was famously quoted as saying. Anyone who has experienced the Intercontinental derby would probably agree.The grand Istanbul derby is older than the Turkish republic i...
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