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Mourinho on Fenerbahce overturning 3-1 Rangers Europa League deficit
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12/03/2025
Mourinho on Fenerbahce overturning 3-1 Rangers Europa League deficit
12/03/2025
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00:00
We will continue with our head coach, Erhan Bey.
00:05
You have to talk to the coach for Turkish translation.
00:08
First of all, I would like to wish Erhan Seven TRT Sport good luck.
00:19
Coach, last week you had a good game, good formation and good results.
00:25
But tomorrow's game will be played with two different disadvantage scores.
00:29
Will this cause a change in your game system?
00:34
Or will Fenerbahce play with their normal game system?
00:37
And tomorrow's game...
00:39
Shall we ask one by one?
00:40
Okay, I will finish a sentence.
00:42
The key word of tomorrow's game is patience.
00:46
I would like to say thank you and good luck in order to close the two differences.
00:50
I would like to say that I believe that you will pass the tournament.
01:05
We had a week to process what happened in the last match.
01:15
And there is one obvious conclusion, which is the result is a reflection of our mistakes.
01:29
So, I would say that at this level, mistakes normally cost you matches and qualifications.
01:43
But it is open until it is open.
01:54
So, I don't want even to have a feeling of we have a disadvantage, we are losing 3-1, we play away.
02:06
Anything that can, let's say, disturb our self-confidence, I don't want to think about it.
02:16
I just want to think that, as you are saying, in the last 19 matches we played 18 good matches and 18 good results.
02:27
And one bad performance against Rangers and one bad result against Rangers.
02:32
We all believe that our team in this moment is the team that was 18 matches getting results.
02:41
And we are not the team that played against Rangers in the last Thursday.
02:47
So, we think about this match and nothing else.
02:53
We know that Sunday we have a very difficult match.
02:57
We know that we are going to land in Istanbul at dinner time on Friday.
03:04
We know all that.
03:08
We know the importance of the Championship for us, the domestic competitions for us.
03:13
But until it is open, it is open.
03:16
And tomorrow, of course, we have to try not to repeat the mistakes.
03:21
Because the mistakes against a team that played like Rangers did.
03:27
Very defensive, low block, very closed, waiting for the mistake, counter-attack.
03:35
Against a team that plays like this, you cannot make mistakes in possession like we did.
03:42
Jose, how important will it be to try and turn the crowd and get the early momentum,
03:47
given that despite Rangers' win last week against Fenerbahce,
03:51
they've struggled at home in the last three games, they've lost the last three games.
03:54
Will that be key to try and get their own fans against them, get them nervous and try and get the early momentum?
04:00
I don't want to think about what can happen to them.
04:07
To be honest, I have one little doubt that only tomorrow during the match I can feel it.
04:17
I don't know if Ibrox, as a very iconic British stadium like many in Scotland, in England,
04:29
I don't know if they will accept a very defensive performance like they had in Fenerbahce,
04:37
that was successful for them, but a very defensive performance.
04:42
I don't know if they are going to accept.
04:44
And we are prepared for both.
04:47
We are prepared for Rangers to try to play the same way,
04:54
in a low block, waiting for our mistake, counter-attack,
04:57
Deserj, Cerny, these fast people, Diomande, or Ibrox,
05:06
or Ferguson decides to play in a different way and they have a go at us,
05:12
and they try to score before, and they try to start very, very strong.
05:17
And going in the direction of some of your Turkish colleagues' questions,
05:23
you use the word patience.
05:28
I don't know if we have to be patient in case we have the dominancy of the game against a defensive team,
05:35
or I don't know if we have to be strong defensively to cope with the first impact of a home team
05:44
that wants to try to kill the tie. I don't know.
05:48
Only tomorrow the game can tell us.
05:51
But we know what we want to do in both occasions.
05:55
We had this period of time where we could work.
06:00
We could work both ways, attack a defensive block,
06:05
trying to build against a team that presses high.
06:09
We are ready for anything.
06:12
Hopefully we can perform, and hopefully we can fight until the end,
06:21
which is the only thing that I demand from my players.
06:25
I don't demand we have to come here tomorrow and win 4-0, we have to qualify.
06:30
I don't demand anything like that.
06:32
The only thing I demand is that we have to come here and have a go.
06:37
Jose, you've only managed here once before, I think, with a friendly with Chelsea in 2007.
06:43
Can we get your memories of that, if you have any?
06:46
What did that game tell you about the atmosphere?
06:49
If you ask me the result of that match, I cannot tell you.
06:53
I have no idea, especially because it was a friendly.
06:58
I know Scotland, I know Scottish guys, I have Scottish friends.
07:03
Of course, many years of England, where there are similarities in the way you live football.
07:09
But my best memory here of Ibrox, you don't know because I was Eden,
07:17
but it was a Rangers-Celtic.
07:20
I came here for that match, that was good.
07:23
What was the score of that game?
07:25
I don't know, but it was a couple of weeks before I played the final against Celtic.
07:30
It was 2003, something like May 2003.
07:36
Rangers-Celtic, nobody knew me at that time.
07:39
I could come, I could walk.
07:41
I finished the game, I walked with the crowd.
07:44
Good times for me.
07:46
What did that day tell you about the atmosphere that your team is going to experience tomorrow night?
07:51
I think they have to enjoy it.
07:53
Even if it is hostile, hostile in the sense of they want Rangers to win, of course.
08:00
I think they have to enjoy it.
08:02
The best place to play football is in the UK.
08:07
Barry Ferguson was in earlier saying that you and your team would have been hurting after last week's result.
08:14
Have you been hurting and have you used that to train over the last seven days?
08:19
I'm not hurting.
08:21
I'm not hurting.
08:23
I think Rangers is not a better team than us.
08:28
I think we have a chance of qualifying.
08:35
It's not hurting or it's not I want revenge or we have to go there and show we are better.
08:42
It's nothing about that.
08:44
It's just the fact that I honestly think we are better.
08:49
But as I was trying to be very honest after the match there and even today, we deserve to lose.
08:57
We deserve to lose.
08:59
I didn't use at that time a penalty that could be a penalty, Fred that was suspended and is a fundamental player for us.
09:07
I didn't try to use anything because we made mistakes.
09:13
They capitalised on our mistakes.
09:15
They were motivated.
09:17
They were fighting together.
09:19
They deserve to win.
09:21
There are no bad feelings.
09:24
There is no frustration.
09:26
There is nothing.
09:27
We have a match to play and we are so committed with our league.
09:32
We have such an important match on Sunday that if I feel we have no chance, I'm preparing for Sunday.
09:41
But I'm not preparing for Sunday.
09:43
I'm preparing for tomorrow because I think honestly that we have a chance.
09:46
So until we have a chance, let's go.
09:49
Last question, please.
09:51
Jose, if you get the result that you want, would it be the great escape?
09:55
Would it be one of the better results?
09:58
I know you've won so many trophies.
10:00
You've won the competition, won Champions League.
10:02
But if you beat Rangers here by more than two goals, what kind of win is that?
10:06
What kind of achievement is that?
10:08
Penalties.
10:09
Or on penalties.
10:10
You still need two goals to get to penalties.
10:12
I know, I know.
10:13
I have almost 200 matches in Europe.
10:16
But honestly, I don't remember losing at home by two.
10:23
I think I never lost at home by two.
10:25
So I never had the experience of going on the second leg like that.
10:30
But I won at home by two and I lost by three away.
10:38
I wasn't a dog and I won.
10:40
I was favourite and I lost.
10:42
Anything happened to me.
10:45
And if you ask me, is it impossible for us tomorrow to do the job?
10:49
It's not impossible.
10:51
It's not impossible.
10:52
And because it's not impossible, we come with everything we have.
10:57
And we are not thinking that Sunday we have a very difficult match to play in Istanbul.
11:03
We come with everything we have.
11:05
In the end, if France is better than us or we keep making mistakes,
11:11
if France is better than us, they deserve to go through.
11:14
If we keep making mistakes, we deserve to go out.
11:18
So let's see what happens tomorrow.
11:21
Thank you, Antalya. Good evening.
11:23
Thank you so much.
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