Including the Bursa fixture, we have won three matches straight and we may even further this positive stretch next Monday against Kayseri, who have beaten us deservedly back in the first half of the season. We will be missing Veli and Almeida due to suspensions, however Köybaşı will be back on the leftback even though Tanju have shown confidence in his absence. We may also see Q7 with a half an hour comeback in the upcoming fixture as well as 10-15 minute Ersan Gülüm after a year of injury absence.
The title of this post points out the fact that some critical referee decisions were made in favor of Besiktas for the last three games and these decisions directly involved and affected the outcome of these 9 points earned. First Rüştü's blunder, and then Cenk pulled out the ball from almost a meter inside the goal and yesterday's last second goal was clearly offside. I do truly want to see these as pure referee mistakes without any intention, thus it makes me think about the recent mistakes or decisions that were against us. For instance, Almeida's recent goal against Galatasaray was disallowed due to a foul awarded by our so called "elite" referee Cüneyt Çakır. Last year Almeida's shot came out of the goal after bouncing as much as a meter inside the goal area in Karabük match at home. If I can think further, Nobre's goal were ruled out due to a handball in an Ankara away game couple of year's back. The same referee who ruled out Nobre's goal missed the offside position yesterday. Hence, he may have inadvertently paid back his dues after two-three years of time. In the end, we can only say the common phrase of "What goes around, comes around" for these mishaps.
If we would force ourselves to talk about the tactics and Carvalhal's interference during the game, we can only say that he had gambled and got paid off at the last second for the first time since the beginning of the season. He is a kind of a guy that doesn't like change in a squad for a long time unless there is a necessity due to injuries and/or suspensions. Indeed, we are going through some injuries and suspensions as well, especially in the defensive area and it seems that Carvalhal didn't create a secondary bunch that would at least mimic the original. For example, there is not another player that can fulfill Fernandes' position and shoes in the team. Tanju was available all season but we did not see anything about him before. Burak Kaplan, Atınç, Mehmet Akyüz are all used in minimal minutes and truly we don't know if they can cope up with any difficult situation in the future. I guess it is too much to ask from him in this chaotic status quo of the Turkish football these days anyways. However, we could have seen more youngsters at least to prepare them for the next season.
On the other hand, I totally agree with our ever loveable, warmblooded, sypathetic coach about the upcoming fixtures. A terrible Monday, Thursday, Sunday fixture is awaiting us before the very important UEFA match up against Braga. I guess the planners are very busy negotiating the terms of their bank account transfers for their actions to keep those in the league and they basically overlooked this little detail for Turkish Football's sake.
What I have liked about the last couple of games is the fighting spirit of team had made a comeback in a grand scale that should further push us towards our goals for this season. If we can keep this heat a little longer, why not?
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