The Hatayspor Courier
Match8 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
17 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Deniz Türüç, 34, rolls back the years — 8.20
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Home is on Iván Centurión's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hatayspor are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Victor Gidado in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hatayspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Hatayspor lose Umut Unal
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tekio is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match8 Jan 2028
Deniz Türüç rescues a point for Hatayspor
It needed Deniz Türüç to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Kayserispor, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Victor Gidado runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Jan 2028
Hatayspor borrow Berkay Aslan
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Berkay Aslan arrives from Basaksehir with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
In brief
- Market Chandrel Massanga leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Baran Sarka spends the afternoon fouling
- Market The shop window has Abdulkadir Adıyaman in it