Mourinho on Fenerbahce overturning 3-1 Rangers Europa League deficit

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Mourinho on Fenerbahce overturning 3-1 Rangers Europa League deficit  12/03/2025  uefa25

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00:00We will continue with our head coach, Erhan Bey.

00:05You have to talk to the coach for Turkish translation.

00:08First of all, I would like to wish Erhan Seven TRT Sport good luck.

00:19Coach, last week you had a good game, good formation and good results.

00:25But tomorrow's game will be played with two different disadvantage scores.

00:29Will this cause a change in your game system?

00:34Or will Fenerbahce play with their normal game system?

00:37And tomorrow's game...

00:39Shall we ask one by one?

00:40Okay, I will finish a sentence.

00:42The key word of tomorrow's game is patience.

00:46I would like to say thank you and good luck in order to close the two differences.

00:50I would like to say that I believe that you will pass the tournament.

01:05We had a week to process what happened in the last match.

01:15And there is one obvious conclusion, which is the result is a reflection of our mistakes.

01:29So, I would say that at this level, mistakes normally cost you matches and qualifications.

01:43But it is open until it is open.

01:54So, I don't want even to have a feeling of we have a disadvantage, we are losing 3-1, we play away.

02:06Anything that can, let's say, disturb our self-confidence, I don't want to think about it.

02:16I just want to think that, as you are saying, in the last 19 matches we played 18 good matches and 18 good results.

02:27And one bad performance against Rangers and one bad result against Rangers.

02:32We all believe that our team in this moment is the team that was 18 matches getting results.

02:41And we are not the team that played against Rangers in the last Thursday.

02:47So, we think about this match and nothing else.

02:53We know that Sunday we have a very difficult match.

02:57We know that we are going to land in Istanbul at dinner time on Friday.

03:04We know all that.

03:08We know the importance of the Championship for us, the domestic competitions for us.

03:13But until it is open, it is open.

03:16And tomorrow, of course, we have to try not to repeat the mistakes.

03:21Because the mistakes against a team that played like Rangers did.

03:27Very defensive, low block, very closed, waiting for the mistake, counter-attack.

03:35Against a team that plays like this, you cannot make mistakes in possession like we did.

03:42Jose, how important will it be to try and turn the crowd and get the early momentum,

03:47given that despite Rangers' win last week against Fenerbahce,

03:51they've struggled at home in the last three games, they've lost the last three games.

03:54Will that be key to try and get their own fans against them, get them nervous and try and get the early momentum?

04:00I don't want to think about what can happen to them.

04:07To be honest, I have one little doubt that only tomorrow during the match I can feel it.

04:17I don't know if Ibrox, as a very iconic British stadium like many in Scotland, in England,

04:29I don't know if they will accept a very defensive performance like they had in Fenerbahce,

04:37that was successful for them, but a very defensive performance.

04:42I don't know if they are going to accept.

04:44And we are prepared for both.

04:47We are prepared for Rangers to try to play the same way,

04:54in a low block, waiting for our mistake, counter-attack,

04:57Deserj, Cerny, these fast people, Diomande, or Ibrox,

05:06or Ferguson decides to play in a different way and they have a go at us,

05:12and they try to score before, and they try to start very, very strong.

05:17And going in the direction of some of your Turkish colleagues' questions,

05:23you use the word patience.

05:28I don't know if we have to be patient in case we have the dominancy of the game against a defensive team,

05:35or I don't know if we have to be strong defensively to cope with the first impact of a home team

05:44that wants to try to kill the tie. I don't know.

05:48Only tomorrow the game can tell us.

05:51But we know what we want to do in both occasions.

05:55We had this period of time where we could work.

06:00We could work both ways, attack a defensive block,

06:05trying to build against a team that presses high.

06:09We are ready for anything.

06:12Hopefully we can perform, and hopefully we can fight until the end,

06:21which is the only thing that I demand from my players.

06:25I don't demand we have to come here tomorrow and win 4-0, we have to qualify.

06:30I don't demand anything like that.

06:32The only thing I demand is that we have to come here and have a go.

06:37Jose, you've only managed here once before, I think, with a friendly with Chelsea in 2007.

06:43Can we get your memories of that, if you have any?

06:46What did that game tell you about the atmosphere?

06:49If you ask me the result of that match, I cannot tell you.

06:53I have no idea, especially because it was a friendly.

06:58I know Scotland, I know Scottish guys, I have Scottish friends.

07:03Of course, many years of England, where there are similarities in the way you live football.

07:09But my best memory here of Ibrox, you don't know because I was Eden,

07:17but it was a Rangers-Celtic.

07:20I came here for that match, that was good.

07:23What was the score of that game?

07:25I don't know, but it was a couple of weeks before I played the final against Celtic.

07:30It was 2003, something like May 2003.

07:36Rangers-Celtic, nobody knew me at that time.

07:39I could come, I could walk.

07:41I finished the game, I walked with the crowd.

07:44Good times for me.

07:46What did that day tell you about the atmosphere that your team is going to experience tomorrow night?

07:51I think they have to enjoy it.

07:53Even if it is hostile, hostile in the sense of they want Rangers to win, of course.

08:00I think they have to enjoy it.

08:02The best place to play football is in the UK.

08:07Barry Ferguson was in earlier saying that you and your team would have been hurting after last week's result.

08:14Have you been hurting and have you used that to train over the last seven days?

08:19I'm not hurting.

08:21I'm not hurting.

08:23I think Rangers is not a better team than us.

08:28I think we have a chance of qualifying.

08:35It's not hurting or it's not I want revenge or we have to go there and show we are better.

08:42It's nothing about that.

08:44It's just the fact that I honestly think we are better.

08:49But as I was trying to be very honest after the match there and even today, we deserve to lose.

08:57We deserve to lose.

08:59I didn't use at that time a penalty that could be a penalty, Fred that was suspended and is a fundamental player for us.

09:07I didn't try to use anything because we made mistakes.

09:13They capitalised on our mistakes.

09:15They were motivated.

09:17They were fighting together.

09:19They deserve to win.

09:21There are no bad feelings.

09:24There is no frustration.

09:26There is nothing.

09:27We have a match to play and we are so committed with our league.

09:32We have such an important match on Sunday that if I feel we have no chance, I'm preparing for Sunday.

09:41But I'm not preparing for Sunday.

09:43I'm preparing for tomorrow because I think honestly that we have a chance.

09:46So until we have a chance, let's go.

09:49Last question, please.

09:51Jose, if you get the result that you want, would it be the great escape?

09:55Would it be one of the better results?

09:58I know you've won so many trophies.

10:00You've won the competition, won Champions League.

10:02But if you beat Rangers here by more than two goals, what kind of win is that?

10:06What kind of achievement is that?

10:08Penalties.

10:09Or on penalties.

10:10You still need two goals to get to penalties.

10:12I know, I know.

10:13I have almost 200 matches in Europe.

10:16But honestly, I don't remember losing at home by two.

10:23I think I never lost at home by two.

10:25So I never had the experience of going on the second leg like that.

10:30But I won at home by two and I lost by three away.

10:38I wasn't a dog and I won.

10:40I was favourite and I lost.

10:42Anything happened to me.

10:45And if you ask me, is it impossible for us tomorrow to do the job?

10:49It's not impossible.

10:51It's not impossible.

10:52And because it's not impossible, we come with everything we have.

10:57And we are not thinking that Sunday we have a very difficult match to play in Istanbul.

11:03We come with everything we have.

11:05In the end, if France is better than us or we keep making mistakes,

11:11if France is better than us, they deserve to go through.

11:14If we keep making mistakes, we deserve to go out.

11:18So let's see what happens tomorrow.

11:21Thank you, Antalya. Good evening.

11:23Thank you so much.

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