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Turkey is struggling in poule I. The backlog of Croatia’s headline is five points, but in the second place they have to tolerate Iceland and Ukraine for the time being. Kosovo is Finland’s weakest brother and only collected one point. Can the Turks exploit the power difference?
Kosovo :
Since January 2014, the Kosovar football team has been allowed to play FIFA games, but only in 2016 they joined the global football federation, making it Kosovo’s first qualifying tournament. The country still serves as “pelotonfulling” as they would say in cycling. The Kosovars have won one point in the poule, which was against Finland, which also lost all other matches.
The national selection is not a complete alien’s legacy. For the Dutch, Bersant Celina is a famous name. The Manchester City youth attacker played the past season for FC Twente. The same goes for Milot Rashica, which is a fixed value with Vitesse, and Arber Zeneli, who comes out for SC Heerenveen. The first meeting between both countries was won by 2-0 by Turkey. In the first half, Albert Bunjaki’s team kept tight in the back, but shortly after, Turkey decided the match.
Ujkani; Perdedaj, Rrahmani, Pnishi, Kololli; Shala, B. Berisha, Kryeziu; Rashica, Nuhiu, V. Berisha
Turkey:
Turkey is well-known that they often need overtaking to place themselves for a final tournament. Also in the World Cup qualification, the start of Turkey was difficult. The Turks came back from Croatia (1-1) and Ukraine (2-2), but went back to Iceland. Fatih Terim’s team could not afford to miss “little ones” Kosovo and Finland. Both duels were won by 2-0, leaving the Moon stars back in battle for place two. Croatia seems to be ahead with five points and no more quality.
Turkey did not feel calm in preparation for the qualifying fuel with Kosovo. Monday they practiced against Macedonia, but the team did not make any impression. It was not scored, but the 11-3 draw was significant. On a flight from Macedonia to Italy, star player Arda Türan failed to verbally and physically attack a journalist. Coach Terim found this inadmissible and dropped Türan from the selection. The midfielder did not announce the end of his international career much later.
The fact that Türan is no longer available for Turkey is an understatement. The Turkish team does not have many players playing on the highest stage weekly. Yunus Malli is a fixed value at VfL Wolfsburg and Enes Ünal recently worked for more than 12 million euros to Villarreal. In addition, Emre Mor is a great talent, but he has to earn his place at Borussia Dortmund. Hakan Calhanoglu is usually a base plant at Bayer Leverkusen, just like Ömar Toprak, but Calhanoglu has not played a contest since January and is missing Sunday.
Probably set up Turkey
Babaçan; Gonül, Topal, Toprak, Köybasi; Inan, Tufan; Sen, Malli, Sahan; Tosun
Kosovo vs Turkey head to head matches
12.11.16 WC Turkey Kosovo 2 : 0
21.05.14 FI Kosovo Turkey 1 : 6