Despite conceding 2 goals Turkish national team showed a good display in attack and scored 4 goals for the victory. Arda Turan, Tuncay Sanli and Emre Belozoglu’s performances were exceptional. Espescially Arda created the second goal and scored the winning goal for Turkey.

Tuncay became the second top scorer of Turkish National Team’s history while Arda scored the 600th goal for Turkey.

TÜRKİYE: 4 – ESTONYA 2
Venue: Kadir Has

Match Officials: Tommy Skjerven (xxx), Svein Inge Wiken (xxx), Frank Andas (xxx) (Norveç)

Turkey: Volkan xx, Gökhan Zan xx (36′ Önder Turacı xx), Gökhan Gönül xx, Servet xxx, Hakan Balta xx, Arda xxxx, Hamit xxx, Emre Belözoğlu xxx (78′ Ceyhun Gülselam xx), Kazım xx (61′ Halil Altıntop xx), Tuncay xxx, Sercan xxx

Estonia: Pareiko x, Klavan xx, Piiroja xx, Barengrub x, Jaager x, Vassiljev xxx, Kruglov xxx, Dimitrijev x (73′ Vunk x), Lindpare x, Oper xx, Voskoboinikov xx (54′ Zenjov x)

Goals: 7′ Voskoboinikov, 53′ Vasiljev (Estonya), 29′ & 72′ Tuncay,37′ Sercan, 62′ Arda (Türkiye)
Yellow Cards: 75′ Gökhan Gönül (Türkiye)

Terim announced the first eleven vs. Estonia in the press conference:

Goalkeeper: Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahce)

Defenders: Hakan Balta (Galatasaray), Servet Cetin (Galatasaray), Gokhan Zan (Galatasaray), Gokhan Gonul (Fenerbahce)

Midfielders: Hamit Altintop (FC Bayern Munchen) or Ceyhun Gulselam (Trabzonspor), Colin Kazim Richards (Fenerbahce), Emre Belozoglu (Fenerbahce), Arda Turan (Galatasaray),

Forwards: Sercan Yildirim (Bursaspor), Tuncay Sanli (Stoke City)

Milliyet’s report about Elano was firmly denied by his former club. Milliyet has staged a false report about Elano’s professional ethics based on the claims made by FC Shakthar Donetsk officials but the report was firmly denied by Elano Blumer’s former club.

Newspaper’s of Dogan Media Group including Milliyet, Hurriyet, Vatan and Fanatik is well known for their hatred against Galatasaray.

Here is the statement by the FC Shakthar Press Office:

The Turkish supporters are misled
04-09-09 14:29:54

Some of the Turkish mass-media, www.milliyet.com.tr in particular, published materials, where FC Shakhtar CEO Sergiy Palkin had commented on Elano as a difficult player to cooperate with, giving negative appraisals for FC Galatasaray management. FC Shakhtar denies this information as being false.

- I am surprised at such information, Sergiy Palkin said to FC Shakhtar Press Office. We always appreciated Elano’s high professional skills. He left Donetsk honourably, on mutual agreement. I do not understand where the Turkish reporters could find such negative information. And the stranger thing is that it had been put down to my words. I think the Turkish media must publish their official denial. Otherwise, all Turkish supporters and football publicity will be misled.

FC Shakhtar

Press Office
http://shakhtar.com/en/news/10705

Kasimpasa filled the vacant position with the experienced manager Yilmaz Vural. Yilmaz Vural has trained many clubs in his career including Bursaspor, Gaziantepspor, Trabzonspor, Denizlispor, Genclerbirligi, Ankaragucu, Manisaspor, Diyarbakirspor, Eskisehirspor and Antalyaspor.

The disciplinary committee decided to suspend Emre Belozoglu from 3 matches after his misconduct in the match between Fenerbahce and Manisaspor. Emre has sent off for cussing the opposite player and he had pushed away the referee after he’s shown a red card.

Kasimpasa coach Besim Durmus decided to resign as his team was unable to grab a single point in the first 4 weeks of the Turkcell Super League. The resignation was acknowledged by the Kasimpasa board and now Kasimpasa is seeking for a replacement. There are rumours that Yilmaz Vural will take over the bench but the Kasimpasa board denied the rumours.

Fatih Terim decided to include Hamit Altintop’s twin brother Halil Altintop to the national team squad due to Mevlut Erdinç’s injury. Halil is currently playing for Schalke 04.

Nurullah Saglam became the new coach of Denizlispor. Denizlispor has collected 0 points in 3 games and chairman Ali İpek terminated Erhan Altin’s contract and replaced him with Saglam

Saglam had a trial with Diyarbakirspor at the start of the season but due to Diyarbakirspor’s poor financial structure he has left Diyarbakirspor.

Bursaspor was unable to complete the signing of Heath Pearce. According to the Bursaspor club player’s agent has created some problems and they were unable to solve it before the transfer window closes.

After the win vs. Ukraine Turkey secures the 27th place in the FIFA Rankings. In the previous list Turkey was holding the 28th position.