Fenerbahçe Club gave information about the health conditions of Filip Novak and Serdar Aziz, who were injured in the match played with Sivasspor the previous day. The statement said, “First degree strain in the right inguinal region of Serdar Aziz, and intratendinal tear in the left thigh posterior upper muscle tendon of Filip Novak.” It was stated that the treatment programs of the players were started. It was claimed that Novak could return to the field after about a month.
With the arrival of Vitor Pereira at the beginning of the season, he parted ways with Caner Erkin, one of the names in the left-back. However, after Caner Erkin’s departure, no alternative was found, Filip Novak was left alone. Although Pereira’s triple system was taken into account, the wing-back was not considered. 19-year-old Çağtay Kurukalıp from Kasımpaşa was not taken to the field in the Sivasspor match, although he was among the substitutes.
The pain of the faulty squad engineering at the beginning of the season was rekindled. Both Vitor Pereira and İsmail Kartal suffered greatly from the lack of their defensive fullbacks. The technical team, who already thought of a lack of left-back, now believes that a reinforcement is definitely needed. Fenerbahçe, which has transferred 63 different players since June 2018, will start the transfer process again. In fact, in the last 4 seasons, the yellow-dark blue team faced similar squad mistakes, but they could not make up their minds about the right football.