Beşiktaş coach Fernando Santos, who lost 2-0 away to Gaziantep FK in the closing match of the 29th week of the Trendyol Super League, made a statement after the match.
Here are the words of the Portuguese coach:
As the coach of the team, I apologize to the fans. We got a bad result. We were out of tempo. We were bad overall. As the coach of the team, I have the first responsibility. We played a bad match. We conceded a goal in the first minutes of the Galatasaray match, but we reacted afterwards. But that wasn’t the case today. As I said, the first and foremost responsibility is always the teacher. We will talk again. We will change, we need to change. We played matches. We will try to improve the good ones further.
We couldn’t show our Beşiktaş identity today. There is something I always say, we have to run and fight harder than the opponent. We didn’t do that today. We weren’t aggressive enough. But we are the ones who will change this situation. Beşiktaş’s game should not be like this. We must show that true identity. We will talk, we will fix the situation. We are the ones we need to fix.
The opponent played better than us. They were better defensively. They took advantage of our mistakes. As a teacher, the responsibility is always mine first, I take the responsibility. I apologize to the fans for this reason. The opponent worked harder and took advantage of our mistakes. We also created opportunities, but it was not enough. We talked to the players inside. We need to show a different performance. We always talk about these. We explained what the opponent did before, but what we wanted did not happen today. I apologize to our fans again.