The Istanbulspor Gazette
Match12 Sep 2040
The cup run ends for Istanbulspor
0‑2 against Kasimpasa, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad17 Sep 2040
Caner Ozcan breaks a bone — 39 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad17 Sep 2040
A one-man rearguard from Jakub Kowalski
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad17 Sep 2040
Tempers go at Istanbulspor
Emirhan Topçu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match15 Sep 2040
Onuralp Çakıroğlu’s goal not enough for Istanbulspor
Onuralp Çakıroğlu scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Galatasaray, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad17 Sep 2040
Ali Demirbilek gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market17 Sep 2040
The Muhammed Akif Avci question follows Istanbulspor around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Muhammed Akif Avci’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings17 Sep 2040
Selcuk Calhanoglu could have had three
8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Player ratings17 Sep 2040
Nobody could get near Michael Lehmann
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings Onuralp Çakıroğlu ran the game
- Market Erdem Ozdemir leaves for nothing
- Market Alper Sahin leaves for nothing