The season that Kuyt forgot and Fenerbahçe lost!

Fenerbahçe parted ways with coach İsmail Kartal by mutual agreement after losing to Galatasaray in the 9th week of the Super League. After a very active week for the yellow-dark blue team, it was decided that Kartal's assistant Dirk Kuyt would be the manager of the team until the national break. After all these developments, the 10th week has arrived. Fenerbahçe, which was injured both sportively and administratively, hosted Göztepe, one of the league's recently in form teams, on its field.

It was a shock that Greenwood was not included in the squad announced minutes before the match. Technical manager Dirk Kuyt announced that the British star had the flu and therefore was not included in the squad. Apart from this mandatory change, another notable choice was to leave Vedat Muriqi as a substitute and assign Lukaku to the center forward area.

While Fenerbahçe mainly used its right wing in the first 15 minutes, it tried to develop its attacks largely through Oğuz Aydın. Kerem Aktürkoğlu was left out of the game on the left side. Guendouzi's critical ball loss in the 20th minute gave Göztepe a position opportunity. In the remaining part of the first half, the yellow-dark blue team tried to develop an attack through Oğuz Aydın and Kerem Aktürkoğlu from time to time, but could not find a clear opportunity. In the last moments of the first 45 minutes, Guendouzi came onto the stage and the score was 45+1. With the goal he scored in the minute, he took Fenerbahçe to the dressing room with a 1-0 lead.

Göztepe started the second half better. Having more possession of the ball, the Izmir representative confined Fenerbahçe to its own half. Although the yellow-dark blue team tried to attack with Kerem Aktürkoğlu from time to time, the national football player could not take advantage of the opportunities he had and drew the reaction of the stands. While Fenerbahçe's game was gradually showing signs that they would concede a goal, Guendouzi, who made a big mistake in the 20th minute, made a bigger mistake in the 76th minute and this time the mistake resulted in a goal. While the shock of this goal had not yet gotten over, Göztepe found the net once again two minutes later and lost 2-1 to Fenerbahçe.

The Göztepe match showed that the situation in Fenerbahçe did not change after parting ways with İsmail Kartal. Dirk Kuyt, who was Kartal's assistant and took on the technical responsibility of the team until the national break, was expected to make the team react and at least present a different image on the field. However, the Dutch coach also failed his first test.

Kuyt said after the fight: "I don't want to make excuses, but Greenwood, Brown and Ake were not there. Another one was not there but... I forgot." His words were the summary of this season in Fenerbahçe.

After some blood changes, the players were expected to be more enthusiastic, more combative and more organized on the field. However, what happened against Göztepe, especially in the second half, showed that Fenerbahçe's problems were too deep to be solved only by a change of coach. In a match where the yellow-dark blue team took the lead, they left control of the game to their opponent, made consecutive mistakes and lost the match in just two minutes.