Oh my God what a game. I can not wait to watch it. Life in Turkey especially in Mecidiyekoy Istanbul where the Ali Samiyen stadium will stop between 19:00 and 20:45. One side Galatasaray hosting Fenerbahce other side is Fenerbahce who has its best squad ever. It is evidencing us that they are a great team as they played the quarter final in Champions League this year. The tickets were sold out in a few hours and fans of Galatasaray had struggle to have a chance in having a ticket. During the week fans also filled up the training field and motivated their team which does not happen usually, if I am not wrong couple thousand came to watch Galatasaray.

It is interesting actually Fenerbahce could not open a distance between the second as they are best team this year. I believe the reason is that they have a challenge of motivating themselves to the easy games and don’t play with full strength, additional to this the Turkish average team players desire to prove themselves when playing against Fenerbahce.

Lets talk more about Galatasaray as we already know how Fenerbahce is strong and what kind of guns they have. Please read carefully if you are not familiar with Turkish football. First of all Galatasaray is playing at home ground with the support of their fans who will cheer up for their team 90 minutes like an additional players. I want to emphasize you how big chance it is for Galatasray playing in Alisamiyen stadium and bring in to your attention it will be one of the biggest plus and gun. Please read the below article:-

http://www.setanta.com/en/TV-and-Entertainment/Entertainment/XI-at-11/xI-at-11-Great-European-grounds/

4. Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Galatasaray

‘Welcome to Hell’ read a string of banners that adorn the Ali Sami Yen Stadium and few would disagree. Galatasaray’s ground is a cauldron of hate and despite its meagre capacity of 22,500, the noise and intensity of the spite spitting from the stands is deafening

Lets remember another thing that football, unlike tennis or dart is a team game and individual talents and skills can not be a big advantage especially if you are playing away to a team which plays with one hearth and fully motivated. I want to take your attention into something that does not cross most of Turkish people who are in sports media. Galatasaray played many games this year without their foreign players as they had injury challenges such as Linderoth, Lincoln who were the best transfers in the beginning of season where Fenerbahce played with many Brazilian players and one Serbian and Uruguay. Their squad consists of very much multi national players. A small note: Kezman the Serbian striker missed the penalty 2 weeks ago and the game got over 2-2 which put Fenerbahce in to same level of points with Galatsaray. Zico the coach of Fenerbahce criticized Alex the team captain, by letting Kezman to use the penalty kick and not himself. Alex’s answer was “ If I used the penalty and not let Kezman then media would claim there was a Brazilian mafia in the team or monkey business”. Well, this is telling me that there is a missing device with Fenerbahce team, I guess they do not have the team spirit. Maybe this is another reason why Feerbahce could not open a distance to Galatasaray and have at the same points when they reached to the end of season. I also remember Galatasaray took Fenerbahce out of the Turkish cup. In the first leg of the qualification Galatasaray played away on Fenerbahce’s ground and managed to take a single point with a score of 0-0. I want to inform you Galatasray played that game with no foreign players, and with the average of age 22, all Turkish. I think it was a great success for them as they did not concede any goal from the multi national team Fenerbahce who played with the support of 40000 fans. And Galatasray beat Fenerbahce 2-1 in the second leg. People again did not take this as a measurement of Galatasary’s strength as Fenerbahce finished the game with 8 men and blamed the referee. But the fact was Fenerbahce was loosing the game 1-0 with 11 men and Galatasaray had started with a stunning speed and even missed a goal very early in the game start which %100 should have been scored. And the first red card for defender Lugana was a silly mistake of him as he always did this kind of irresponsible mistakes before even in his national team in international competitions. Lugano should be very careful and smart as he is playing in Fenerbahce which is one of the most important club in Turkey which has high hopes for the future which desires to be the world club. He caused his team a very big disadvantage in that one. So where I want to come and which I want to tell here is that Galatasaray is playing with team spirit, and maybe the reason for this is that they are mostly Turkish and being same national and having same culture helps them achieving this. A reminder: Do you remember how our neighbor Greece became the European Champion in 2004, I watched their games and envied their success. Also do you remember how Porto managed to collect both UEFA and CHL cup. Do not forget that this game will not be talked very much in Brazilian, Serbian, or Uruguay media but will be a big rating for Turkish media and be marked in Turkish football history with CAPITOL LETTERS. So far I mentioned you 2 important facts and 2 important advantages that many sports gamblers could miss in analyzing this match. Also it is not a challenge for Galatasaray that they sent their coach 2 few weeks ago and quickly located a Turkish coach as teams who play with spirit do not need a leader. Am I right? Opps I was almost forgetting to mention regarding the premiums for both team’s managements declared. Fenerbahce managers decided 2 million us dollars however Galatsaray players rejected the premium that was offered by the Galatasaray president, and their reply to the management was “We will fight for money, we will play for our honor.”

Well finally I would like say that Galatasaray has the correct cards in this battle which will determine the Turkish League Champion of the season as it will be a great advantage for the team who will collect all the points.

There will be at least one red card and many yellow cards. And my score prediction is 1-0 on behalf of home team. Being honest to you it my brother’s prediction, which he said to me yesterday on phone that he saw this result in his dream. I am not very emotional when it is time for betting but I remember once my brother was right when he said me Galatasaray would score 5 goals against Fenerbahce in cup final. That game was played in 2005 and finished 5-1



Pick : GALATASARAY TO WIN THE GAME
Odds : 2.55
Stake : 8 / 10
Bookmaker : Expekt
Date : 2008-04-27
Match Result : 1-0
Tipster Personal Link/Sponsor: www.soccerbetsite.net

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