Fenerbahçe won 5-1 in the UEFA European Conference League Play-Off Round, defeating Twente 1-0 away in the first leg of the first leg, and made their mark in the groups. Ismail Kartal, the coach of the yellow-dark blue team, made statements at the press conference held after the match. Stating that the first half was very tough and he provoked his opponent’s players, Kartal said, “We knew that the opponent was preparing very motivated against us, that they would provoke our players with some of their players. We talked to our players, saying that we should just concentrate on our game. We saw 5 unnecessary yellow cards in the first half. We showed them.” We don’t want them. We have to get used to them. We will play games like this from now on. We do not accept them as a coach. We talked about the need to be calmer at halftime and that we came to play football. We took control of the game for some periods with the moves we made. We tried to play with control. We are happy that we won. 6 I am happy that we contributed to the country’s score by making 6 in the . We became the first Turkish team to win 7 games in a row in Europe, including 1 game from last season and 6 games this season. I congratulate my players.”
“FOLLOWING THAT, WE WILL PLAY TO HOLD SOME OF OUR MATCHES AND TO WIN SOME OF OUR MATCHES”
Expressing that Twente played under pressure in the first half, Kartal said, “Twente is a good and organized team. We have to underline this. They forced us here. We allowed this in the first half. We couldn’t play. We don’t have a plan that we will attack every match. This match, we thought of scoring if we can keep the game under control and score. If we can’t score, we made our plan to pass the round. Our plan worked. From now on, we will play to keep some of our matches and to win some of our matches. We will play for 2.5 days Then we will play an important league game. We rested some of our players,” he said.
“THE KING DUE TO PLAY TODAY”
Ismail Kartal answered a question about Joshua King, who entered the game at the beginning of the second half, and Ismail Yüksek, who was replaced by Djiku in the 83rd minute: “All the players, playing or not, are working very well. Everyone is trying to do their best. Many of my players. “I am very sorry that I could not play them even though he deserved to play. Tonight, King deserved to play. He showed that in training. I gave him a chance and he made good use of it. İsmail is one of the players who played the most in the team. He is improving every day. In the game we will play in the league. “I don’t have any other players in his territory to use. We wanted to both rest him and keep Djiku in the game a little longer.”
“AS FENERBAHÇE, WE WANT TO GO OUT OF THE GROUPS AS MUCH AS WE CAN”
The experienced technical man, who shared his thoughts before the draw that will be held tomorrow, said, “This will become clear after the draw. No matter who comes out, as Fenerbahçe, we want to go as far as we can get out of the groups. I hope that if we leave the group as the leader, we will pass the month of February and reach the last 16’s in the Conference League. We will be left to ourselves. I hope we can achieve this,” he concluded.