Fenerbahçe beat Eypspor 8-0 in the sixth round of the Turkish Süper Liga on Sunday at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium. The hosts scored early and never looked back, leaving the visitors with a scoreline that reflected their struggle from the opening whistle.
Mason Greenwood opened the scoring in the fourth minute with a penalty, and Vedat Muriqi added a second three minutes later. By the time the clock reached twenty, the visitors were already two goals down and playing catch-up for the rest of the afternoon.
And here's the thing — you can watch a match on the screen and see the ball moving, or you can stand in the stands and watch what happens when a team knows it's going to win. Muriqi scored again in the twenty-first minute, and Guendouzi made it four before half-time. The visitors stopped pressing after the third goal.
We had called for a home win before kick-off, and the result confirmed that prediction. The shift came after the break when Fenerbahçe brought on Kante, Moldovan and Raux Yao for the visitors in the forty-sixth minute — not to change the game, but to give their own players a rest. Muriqi added two more goals in the fifty-fifth and forty-seventh minutes.
Greenwood scored his second in the eightieth minute, and the substitutions kept coming. Akturkoglu and Skriniar came on together in the seventieth minute, while Abdullahi and Brown replaced their defenders in the eighty-fifth. Lukaku and Yasar picked up yellow cards in the eighty-ninth minute.
The statistics told the story without embellishment. Fenerbahçe had fifty-four per cent possession, thirteen shots on target against six, and created seven big chances compared to the visitors' one. Their expected goals figure of 4.9 sat comfortably above the actual score, while Eypspor managed just 0.79.
The result keeps Fenerbahçe in fifth place with ten points from six games, while Eypspor remain eighteenth on three points after five defeats. The gap between them was already there in the table — this match just made it impossible to ignore.
