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Galatasaray had 54% of the ball and produced three shots on target in ninety minutes. After the 4-0 at Papara Park, the question is not about the players but about the bench: does Okan Buruk have an idea for this team?
In the days after their 1-1 draw with Roma, Fenerbahçe lived through their manager's resignation, his return within forty-eight hours, and the season's first goalless match at Gaziantep. Seven points from five weeks, one point in the Champions League — and a decision still not taken.
Beşiktaş are top of the Süper Lig with four wins from five: 12 points, +8 goal difference. The Çorum, Kadıköy and Erzurumspor results that followed their only defeat, at Alanya, explain why supporters have earned the right to look at this season differently.
Fenerbahçe could not beat Roma at home on their return to the Champions League league phase after 17 years; despite 11 shots and 45.5% accuracy the match finished 1-1, and the players' post-match "we could have won" summed up the frustration left behind.
Hull City beat Manchester United 2-0 at home in the opening weeks of the Premier League season, drew 0-0 with Aston Villa and have still not conceded a goal. For the club Acun Ilıcalı took over in 2022, this is the first real dividend of a project built patiently.
For a Trabzonspor watching the Fenerbahçe-Beşiktaş derby from the sidelines, the result at Kadıköy turned into an opportunity: a win tomorrow would lift them above Fenerbahçe.
Galatasaray watched the Kadıköy derby from a distance and were directly affected by it: Beşiktaş's win cut the gap at the top from four points to one. FutbolRadar's post-derby title-race analysis.
Three weeks after the column in which we questioned Beşiktaş's scoring problem, the answer arrived in the biggest match of the season: 1-0 down at Kadıköy, Beşiktaş came back to take three points through Vlahović's first derby goal. That was not just a win, it was a declaration of identity.
Fenerbahçe went ahead through Milan Škriniar in the season's first derby at Kadıköy but left the pitch beaten 2-1 by goals from Rıdvan Yılmaz and Dušan Vlahović. Vlahović's first derby goal also handed Vincenzo Italiano his first derby win.
The season's first Fenerbahçe-Beşiktaş derby, in matchweek four of the Süper Lig, kicks off at Kadıköy at 20:00 tonight. Both clubs spent the summer assembling squads built on ambition; now that ambition has to answer for itself on the pitch. FutbolRadar's pre-derby assessment.
Twice ahead and twice pegged back away at Başakşehir, Galatasaray only took the three points through Gabriel Sara's goal in the 91st minute. This win was less a relief than a warning.
Victor Osimhen did not merely score as Galatasaray beat Göztepe 3-2 at RAMS Park; with his pressing, his assist and the space he opened up, he built the team's attacking game himself.
Fenerbahçe won 2-1 away at Lyon through goals from Vedat Muriqi and Archie Brown to reach the Champions League league phase after 18 years.
Beşiktaş have started the season five wins from five without conceding, yet they have scored only six goals in those five competitive matches. The 1-0 win over Eyüpspor showed the solidity of Italiano's structure and its lack of production in the penalty area in equal measure. For a side that raised its ceiling with Vlahović and Trossard, the era of excuses is over: this team's identity will be settled in the next twenty days.
There is no ordinary match on the back of the burgundy-and-blue shirt; only matches whose meaning has not been written yet. The trip to Kasımpaşa is not a beginning, it is a statement.
A 90th-minute header rescued a point at RAMS Park. But Galatasaray was never made great by rescued points.
Before Beşiktaş's return leg with Hradec Králové: the hope, the tension and the emotional inheritance that a 1-0 win with ten men in Czechia has carried back to Dolmabahçe.
Sometimes Galatasaray supporters are not waiting for a footballer at all. They are waiting for the moment that makes them believe again, and for a feeling big enough to carry the European dream.
Sometimes a win is not just three letters written on a scoreboard.
Trabzonspor's official site announced at 16:06 on 5 August 2026 that Mohamed Salah had passed his medical, and a signing ceremony has been confirmed. With contract details still to come, Turkish football is stepping into a very large shop window.
Fenerbahçe's journey through European competition continues.
Trabzonspor finished third and lifted the cup as the lowest spenders in the Süper Lig. To understand that this is no accident, you have to look not at the pitch but at the scouting desk.
The positives, the defensive problems and the question marks hanging over the new season after Galatasaray's 3-3 pre-season draw with Rennes.
A column on the sight of Aziz Yıldırım — president of Fenerbahçe for close to twenty years — at the club's General Assembly, read through the weight of the past and his place in the club's history.
Aziz Yıldırım's return to the lectern after eight years is not simply a boardroom move at Fenerbahçe; it reads like the return of an old story carrying its weight, its age and its sense of belonging all at once.
A column assessing what the financial, administrative and sporting messages delivered at Fenerbahçe's General Assembly mean for the years ahead at the club.
A changed squad after four consecutive titles, rising expectations, and the inner voice of a Galatasaray supporter in which hope and sorrow meet before a new season.
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