Okan Buruk, who started his speech by evaluating the struggle, said, “Today is an away game. We play on a synthetic field. We had question marks here. Our opponent is a team more used to this situation. There were difficulties in this sense in our team. But especially in the first half, the opponent left the ball to us. They went on fast attacks and we gave clear positions here. Our defense shares, we played one of the worst games in the first season. Victor was ready, of course, not one of the worst games of the first season. “We need to be better at this level and in the Champions League qualifying, especially at this level. We needed to play better in terms of team defense. Our defense needed to not have played better. The negative thing for me today is the mistakes we made in defense. We didn’t do our defensive duties correctly, we didn’t settle in properly,” he said.
“THIS MATCH WAS AN IMPORTANT TRAINING FOR US”
Stating that the opponent is more physically ready, Okan Buruk said, “Being ready or not depends on the player here. Some football players came ready. Some football players came without doing anything. Of course, we have late form players. For example, Sergio finished today’s game without playing any preparation match. So this changes from player to player. We think that we are ready in general. Our opponent played 23 league games. “We started training again after 3 weeks. It can be difficult for the players to come back mentally. We had difficulties from time to time in taking a defensive position. There is a team here that got used to each other and played together and played more automatically, especially in this field. We had difficulties in this sense from time to time,” he said.
“BAKAMBU CONTINUES TRAININGS IN ISTANBUL”
Regarding the situation of the new transfer Bakambu, Buruk said, “We have written to the squad. He continues his training in Istanbul. I hope he will start training with the team and will be in the squad for the next match.”
WORST MATCH SINCE LAST YEAR
“There was a mistake in our posts on defense. Victor played maybe one of his worst games since last year. Nobody is ready but at this level we needed to be better. Our team defense had to be better. We didn’t settle in right.” said.
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