Our coach İsmail Kartal and our football player Dusan Tadic made statements before the Olympiacos match.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 18:51

Our Fenerbahçe will face the Greek team Olympiacos tomorrow evening in the UEFA Conference League quarter-final rematch at the Ülker Stadium Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu Sports Complex. Our coach İsmail Kartal and our player Dusan Tadic made statements at the press conference held in our stadium before the match.

Dusan Tadic: It will be a difficult match but we want to skip the round

Dusan Tadic, who spoke first and evaluated the match, said, “It will be an interesting match tomorrow. Both teams are made up of very quality players. We made a lot of individual mistakes in the first match and we gave them a lot of gifts, so to speak. Afterwards, we managed to leave there with a good score. We hope to not make these mistakes tomorrow. We will show that we are better than them in every aspect of football. We want to get a good result in front of our fans. It will be a difficult match but we want to get through the round.

Dusan Tadic: We need to take responsibility on the field because it is imperative for us to take Fenerbahçe to the semi-finals

As I just mentioned, we need to show that we are better than them in every sense. We need to show in front of our fans that we are better than them both physically, tactically and in every sense. We need to take responsibility on the field because it is imperative for us to take Fenerbahçe to the semi-finals.

Dusan Tadic: We have great fans, I can even say they are the best I have ever seen.

I think we have great fans. I can even say it’s the best I’ve seen. We need to use their power in a positive way. The 12th men on the field are the driving forces for us. We need to use this in a positive way. This kind of thing is normal when you play for a big club. Good and bad things happen. Disappointments happen. I see these as normal. We need to take these responsibilities. People can get nervous from time to time. The reason we play in the big team is that we know how to cope with this pressure. We need to use this in a positive way. We need to get our fans behind us, which has been the case throughout the season. We always felt their support behind us. I think there will be a great atmosphere tomorrow too. I hope we can achieve something together.

Dusan Tadic: What is more important for us is that our teams are winning matches

Especially if you play in my position, you want the player in front of you to be the top scorer, but this way you will achieve success as a whole team. Coach, staff, players. Together, you will achieve this success. The goal of the players playing in my position is to feed the center forward in the best way possible. What is more important for us is that our teams are winning matches.

Dusan Tadic: It’s nice to play 50 matches in such a big and beautiful club

It is nice to play 50 matches in such a big and beautiful club. It is especially nice to wear this jersey in front of our fans. It’s a great honor for me. I hope we can make it even better tomorrow. We take our team to the semi-finals. This is the most important thing for us. We want to win tomorrow and make our fans happy. I hope we will do this.

Dusan Tadic: We need to reflect our strong game and quality on the field

We were good in the first 10 minutes of the first match. We took a couple of clear positions. Afterwards, we made two mistakes and after those mistakes, the match and the feeling of the match changed for us. I hope we do not repeat these mistakes and show that we are a better team on the field. When you make mistakes against such good teams, they punish you. Therefore, we should not make these mistakes. We need to reflect our strong game and quality on the field. We need to show that we are the better side on the field. Of course, when we say these, we respect our opponent very much. It is a very strong team with very high individual quality players, but I hope we can show that we are the better side.

I talked to Darko before and after the match. He’s a really good person. He is also a legend in Serbia. He concluded his words by saying, “I hope he will be successful in Olympiakos too.”

Our Coach İsmail Kartal: We want to go to the semi-finals with the support of our fans and good play.

Our Coach İsmail Kartal, who then took the floor, first evaluated the match and then answered the questions. Our Coach İsmail Kartal said, “The meetings and training we have had with our players regarding tomorrow’s match… Our training will continue this evening. We returned to our country after losing the first match 3-2. To get to the semi-finals in front of our wonderful fans tomorrow… When you look at the match we played there, they have a good team in line with the analysis we made. There are players in the game who will influence the game and change the fate of the game. We knew these, but they became clearer in that match. Olympiakos is a well-established and good team, but we are also a good team. In order to step into the semi-finals in the rematch of 3-2, we want to beat our opponent with the great support and energy of our fans and with strong and positive play and advance to the semi-finals.

Our Coach İsmail Kartal: I am doing my job

We believe that our fans will support us from the beginning to the end of the match. I think that with their support, the performance of our players will increase and we will play better with high self-confidence. We started off well in Greece as well, but when we said ‘let’s score goals’, due to our own mistakes, the opponent is a team of quality players and they took advantage of their mistakes. Tomorrow, we want to finish the match with a strong game, hopefully without making individual mistakes, and reflecting our character on the field.

As of now, everything is clear. I leave it to the public to decide whether I have received enough support. I do my job and I don’t care much about outside. I will continue to do my job. It is obvious how this team plays football, how many points they collected and how many goals they scored. Despite this, if my players, me and my team are criticized, I can’t say anything about it. Criticism happens, of course. We can’t do our job if we obsess over every criticism. They will happen and will continue to happen. Ultimately, we should not be influenced by them and continue our stance and do our job. I’m doing this right now. I am not influenced by much from outside.

Our Coach İsmail Kartal: Djiku is in good health

Djiku is in very good health. We’ll see in training tonight. He can play tomorrow. It is not yet clear whether Djiku will play. We will decide tonight. He is a very quality and characterful actor. He even broke the metatarsal bone of his foot during a match. He ends the match like that, he doesn’t know it. He is a selfless player who plays with such high concentration. Every player is valuable to us. Djiku is also very valuable. We will look at it this evening and make an evaluation accordingly.

Our Coach İsmail Kartal: I would like to thank my players for their dedication

With the best of healthy players we have… Many of my players have been injured since the beginning of the season. We played with players I didn’t have for weeks and months. I didn’t have 5 players at centre-back and 4 out of 6 players in midfield. We played matches without these players for weeks and months. I had to change the places of some players and play some children from the infrastructure. Despite this, we have all gone through a difficult time as of now. I thank my players for their dedication. I hope to start the match tomorrow with the ideal 11.

Our Coach İsmail Kartal: We have come this far with our mutual respect, trust and belief.

My captains are very high-level professional and high-character players. I am also a person of character. They know me too. We have come to this day with our mutual respect, trust and belief. We will continue from now on.
We started very well at the beginning of the season. Then the injuries happened and we didn’t have players in the midfield. We couldn’t have the strong play we wanted for a while because 8-10 players were injured. We could do it from time to time during the game. We couldn’t do it properly, we couldn’t show it to the opponent. Somehow we managed to win the matches and we came to this day. There is no way it will go on like this. We have a very important match tomorrow. I believe that tomorrow we aim to take the field with a squad that is as close to our ideal 11 as the one that took the field at the beginning of the season. Hopefully we can continue where we left off.

Our Coach İsmail Kartal: Despite our shortcomings, we did not give up on positive football

Despite all these shortcomings, we did not give up on our game plan and positive football. Regardless of the conditions, we go out to win every match. Despite all these shortcomings, maybe we couldn’t put forward pressure as much as we did at the beginning of the season. Even though we did this from time to time during the game, we never gave up on our game plan and game philosophy. Despite all these shortcomings in this process, even though we had difficult matches, we were somehow able to overcome those phases. We couldn’t play 3-4 of our most important players in the Olympiakos match. They were crippled. I had to protect them. They were not ready at the meetings I had with the doctor. They said, ‘You can let him play for 15-20 minutes at most.’ We took risks. We were able to play for 30-35 minutes. Since people don’t know these, they ask ‘why didn’t the teacher start with them?’ Not like that. You cannot play a player immediately after an injury. In order for you to play him, he needs to attend at least 8-10 training sessions depending on the match and the week so that he can catch the match tempo and rhythm. One of them went to 2, the other 3 training sessions. There is also the risk of playing them and taking risks and losing them until the end of the season. It is better not to take risks, wait for the right moment and throw it into the game. We think we waited for the right moment and threw it into the game. We got the reward, but the majority of these players will be on the field tomorrow.

Our Coach İsmail Kartal: The disease of today’s football is to play matches too loudly.

Currently 98% of the team has recovered. There is only Mert Hakan. He also starts training with the regular team after 2-3 days.
Tadic said he will play his 50th match. He played in the national team in 8-9 matches. He played nearly 60 matches. When you look at many clubs in Europe, for example, look at Liverpool, United and Bayern. Unfortunately, this is the biggest disease of today’s football, with football teams playing such a high number of matches. Big football players in Europe also have complaints about this. ‘It is harmful to play so many matches. “The players can’t handle this,” they say. According to the statements of a Dutch scientist, the injury rates of athletes after Covid have increased by 200 percent. People may ask, ‘Are Ismail’s training sessions heavy, too much or too little?’ If I am like this, then Liverpool, United, Bayern Munich… Who will answer them? This is not just this year, but every year in Europe, open their websites and see how many of their players are injured. How many of them are under treatment? Playing such high-tempo matches, national teams, travels are not easy things. This is a separate topic. Not only me, but also the coaches of the biggest clubs in Europe and the world, we all suffer from this. Unfortunately, the players cannot handle so many matches.

We had a small penalty practice during the week. Maybe it will happen again tonight. I hope it doesn’t go to penalties.

Jayden Oosterwolde is in good shape right now and has a very strong muscular structure. We estimate that he will return to us sooner than expected. He is an actor who loves to work and takes good care of himself. The operation went well. “We guess that maybe he can join us before the league ends.”

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