Fenerbahçe vs Newcastle United pre season match banter!
Posted on July 21st, 2012 | 93 Comments |
Venue: Sonnenseestadion, Am Sportplatz 1, 7323 Ritzing, Austria.
Kick off: 7pm local time / 6pm UK time
Referee: Paul Petho.
UK TV: Live on ESPN UK.
Hello, good evening and welcome to our latest “match banter” feature, which this time sees Newcastle United facing the Turkish giants of Fenerbahçe.
Known as the “Yellow Canaries” in their native Turkey, the Istanbul side, who were last years runners up in the Turkish Super Lig should provide a tough Turkish test for the Magpies in the run up to the Premiership (and Europa League) season.
For more background to the game, I prepared a pre season guide for Toon fans some time ago, however since the time of writing, the news has been that the venue has been changed from Káposztás Utcai Stadion in Sopron, Hungary, and will now be taking place at the Sonnenseestadion, Ritzing, Austria, which is the home of SC Ritzing.
As with the previous pre season game against AS Monaco, this game will be televised live in the UK on ESPN, though as usual, I shall endeavour to post links to streams of the game for those who can’t get it.
Also as usual, I will also be posting the official team sheets for the game when they become available, as well as highlights when the game is over.
Howay the lads!
Team sheets
Fenerbahce(4-2-3-1): Mert Gunok (G), Orhan Sam, Bekir Irtegun, Serdar Kesimal, Hasan Ali Kaldirim; Mehmet Topal, Cristian Baroni; Dirk Kuyt, Alex De Souza (C), Miroslav Stoch, Moussa Sow.
Subs: Serkan Kirintili, Gokhan Gonul, Selcuk Sahin, Salih Ucan, Recep Niyaz, Caner Erkin, Semih Senturk, Ozer Hurmaci, Sezer Ozturk, Henri Bienvenu, Volkan Demirel, Mehmet Topuz.
Newcastle United (4-3-3): Rob Elliot (G), Danny Simpson, James Tavernier, Fabricio Coloccini (C), Ryan Taylor, Cheick Tiote, Dan Gosling, Gabriel Obertan, Haris Vuckic, Romain Amalfitano, Demba Ba.
Subs: Steve Harper (G), Davide Santon, Mike Williamson, Mehdi Abeid, Gael Bigirimana, Sylvain Marveaux, Jonas Gutierrez, Shola Ameobi, Sammy Ameobi, Papiss Cisse.
* Apperently, Romain Amalfitano has been injured in the pre match warm up, so Sylvain Marveaux will be starting instead.
It also seems that Papiss Cisse is on the bench too so I’ve added him to the original team sheet.
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Evenin’ Worky, been a while.
Loving all these NUFC games being shown on ESPN HD. I get it free through me TIVO box. Woohoo! :D
Goin to be a difficult game tonight. How far are Fenebahce through their pre-season?