Başakşehir will host Latvian team Rigas FS in the 4th week of UEFA European Conference League Group A. Before the match, Başakşehir Coach Emre Belözoğlu and Serbian football player Danijel Aleksic made statements at the press conference held at Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium.
Başakşehir Technical Director Emre Belözoğlu said, “This is a very important game that will clarify our position in Europe and stay in the last 16. We want to win. We also have the strength to win. We know the bounds of our own game. We have experience to gain from the first game. We will win tomorrow and take our place in the group.” “We want to make it much stronger,” he said.
“WE HAVE A TEAM ON THE VERY RIGHT PATH”
Expressing that they have a structure that dominates the game in general, Emre Belözoğlu said, “We played many games similar to this one. It can be perceived in this way when the goal does not come. Including the Riga match, we have a clear facing position in the 38th second. There will be loss of points, there will be matches that we will lose. “We will continue to embrace the game we believe in, the game that brought this success to this day. There is a good group of players. When we evaluate within ourselves, we have a team that is on the right track. Tomorrow will be similar to the away match, but the score will be different. We are a team that wants to come first in the group.” We have the power to do that,” he said.
“LEO WILL NOT START AT 11 TOMORROW”
Speaking about Leo Duarte’s situation, Belözoğlu said, “Leo’s situation, he had a pain in training a week ago. He will train with us today. We will evaluate his situation. We can write 23 players. When there are injuries among these 23 players, some problems may arise in terms of position. Other teams are from us. “They wrote a larger roster. We have changed player profiles a lot. No matter who plays, we will continue to play by staying true to our game. Leo will not start at 11 tomorrow. Maybe we can use it as a move later on,” he said.
DANIJEL ALEKSIC: A VERY IMPORTANT MATCH TO CONTINUE ON OUR PATH TO EUROPE
Serbian football player Danijel Aleksic said in a statement, “Tomorrow our name will be an important match. We will fight for 3 points from where we left off in our adventure in Europe. We are the good side. We showed this in the last match. We couldn’t score. Tomorrow’s match is for us, form is for us.” It is a very important game in terms of continuing our graphic and our way in Europe.”
Noting that they entered a lot of positions in the match in Riga, Aleksic said, “We need to congratulate the goalkeepers. They did a good job. That point is not as we wanted in the last matches. We are doing our work well. We are working very well in terms of eliminating the missing points. Even if it is seen missing in the goal ways in our sense. “We have come a long way since the beginning of the season. We have good form since the beginning of the season. We should be able to be effective in the goal ways in the match tomorrow. We are working well. We want to catch up with our old level. Tomorrow we will get 3 points and celebrate together with you,” he said.