Draws? I hate all the draws

By: Alican | September 4th, 2009

Last week our team had another goalless draw against Gaziantepspor ,a game which may sound like another dull one but it was the exact opposite of our last match. The team performed very well in my opinion except a couple of players so i think it is safe to say that we are on the right path and this international break would do wonders for us.

Coach Denizli started the game with a 4-3-3 he prefers most of the time. Our youth system product İbrahin Kas who has just returned to the club from Getafe started at the rightback alongside Ferrari,Sivok and İsmail Köybasi. The defence looked solid as usual with Hakan Arıkan at goal. The three-man midfield of Tello,Ernst and Fink dominated the middle of the park and had good forward runs. Serdar Özkan had a surpring man of the match performance (keep it boy) but our ‘’supposed to score duo’’ Nihat and Holosko went quiet again. It is clear that Nihat wants to score badly and that puts him into huge pressure.I hope he can get a couple against Estonia with the national team so this ‘’he scored his last official goal against Czech Republic in euro 2008’’ can finish. He is also having problems communicating with Holosko who sometimes seems like he doesnt know what he is doing. All in all it was one of those games in which all players fight till the end but cant get the breakthrough. We hit the bar two times,had many shots on target.Put one of those in the first half and this game would be a blowout.

CL Draw

Well when it is Besiktas in a draw, it is always an accident waiting to happen. Once we managed to find ourselves in a Cl group of Barcelona,Milan and a Leeds team which had its only champions league run of their history in the year they were with us. That group had 2 semi finalists that year. 4 years ago in Uefa cup we drew Tottenham from the fifth pot for a 5-team group.Five years ago after eleminating from the CL with a last minute goal scored in Sparta Prague-Lazio game we continued in Uefa cup but in our first round in Uefa and booooom we have Valencia who went on to win the cup that year. So it goes on and on.
This year the draw meant one thing for me. You cant complain that much on the teams you get from the first pot,they are all giants. I just did not want to see Wolfsburg name from the 4th pot with us. But all Besiktas fans knew they were gonna get Wolfsburg, it was inevitable.
And we got our wish.We got the German champion not Debrecen or Apoel.

Group B
Manchester United
Cska Moscow
Besiktas
Damn you Wolfsburg

We wont argue about who will end up first in the group but all other spots are up for the graps i think. Had we not got Wolfsburg i was sure that we will at least get the 3rd spot for Euro league but now it also seems diffucult. We are starting with ManYoo at home and then making trips to Russia and Germany respectively. The fixture also seems bad as Wolfsburg may play their last game at home against ManUtd reserves and we may end up with zero points in the first 3 games.

The Transfer
On the last day of the market we made a last minute singing from Gaziantepspor,Rodrigo Tabata.It cost us a well 8 million euro price to get him. He is an 28 year old Brazilian midfielder.I did not watch him many times but it will be interesting to see how he will fit in to our system as far as i know he is a central attacking midfielder. Now we have a lot of options for every area and let’s see how the coach will rotate these guys.With the ‘’6 foreign players can play in first 11’’ rule i think Ernst and Ferrari will play all the games but the other ones will change every game.

Our next trip away to Galatasaray and then Manchester at home. These games can well be our turning points of the season as we are already 6 points behind in the league and we also need a good start in Europe. I hope to make previews before these matches.Forza Besiktas!!!