Penalty response and Europa League comment from Mourinho in Fenerbahçe: We have a chance

They missed out on qualification by drawing 1-1 with Lille in the second leg of the third round of the UEFA Europa League. FenerbahçeJose Mourinho made statements in .

Assessing the game, Mourinho said, “The team thought about defending both with and without the ball. Even when they had the ball, their only purpose was to keep the ball and hide it. The team tried everything today. We tried everything on the field. We changed the system, we changed the players, we changed our dynamic. We switched from short games to direct games. We played a game that was not easy two days ago, but our fans saw the spirit that our team showed and added to our spirit. It would be better for me not to say anything about the penalty because when I look at other events that happened to me recently or what happened in the European Championship, I can say that only the referee knows on why there was punishment. The referee knows in VAR and UEFA experts. All I know is that I’m proud of my team. The comments of our fans also showed that they saw that the team was doing their best. ” he said.

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Mourinho said of the enemy players always giving up: “This is the job of the referee. The referee must respect the game and make sure that the players respect the game. The same thing happened in the league game we played here the other day. I was told this would happen a lot during the season. I can’t criticize this, I can’t criticize rival teams, I can’t criticize rival coaches. They are also doing their best to get results. “As I said the other day, everything could have changed if they gave a yellow card in the first 20 minutes, but they chose not to,” he said.

“We suffered an economic loss because we were not in the Champions League, we lost the opportunity to play with the biggest teams in the world. However, we could not win the Champions League, maybe we will beat 1-2 big teams, but we could not do this every round, watch the final game of the Europa League Rome-Seville. I am a professional, I came here to help, we could not go to the finals in the Champions League, but I say ‘if’ in the Europa League, we have a chance. he said.

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Portuguese coach: “What did Fenerbahçe do wrong?” “Did you watch the game? Are you still asking me that?” he answered.

Criticizing the Europa League format, Mourinho said, “The Europa League and Champions LeagueI don’t know why the new formats at . The new format is strange. More games will be played. We play a game in the middle of every week. I hope our rivals will be in the Super League BesiktasTrabzonspor, Galatasaray The same thing happens for. Of course it’s not easy, of course we have a good team. We have enough latitude in some situations. ‘Money’ decides the new format. The Champions League would be great for us, but the Europa League is more suitable for our level, there are more teams at our level there. “I will give this motivation to my players,” he said.

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“The player of both games was better”

Noting that the absence of Ferdi and Fred changed their plans, the Portugal coach said, “Usually, journalists who do not understand much about football focus on too many statistics. Sometimes statistics don’t reflect the game, sometimes they do. positions for the effect. It happened, Livakovic only saved 1 ball in this game, but none of these are excuses, my players did everything. game plan, we were going to make triangles with Ferdi, Dzeko and Maximin With the news we received this morning, our plans have changed Now we will focus on our two most important goals, the Super League and Europa League. he said.

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Speaking about the move, Mourinho said, “The players are injured, they will not be injured all season. I can’t ask for a transfer when every player is injured. The transfer window is still open, but I am not asking for any transfer. ” he said.

Mourinho“Is the Europa League or the Super League more important to you?” “The important thing for me is the next game. We have a tough league game ahead of us and we will play it over the 120 minutes here. We have played a lot of games in this process. There are two games on We will play these games in difficult stadiums. Our goal is to win both games.” he answered.