Fenerbahce coach Mourinho on Penalty exit to Rangers

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Fenerbahce coach Mourinho on Penalty exit to Rangers   13/03/2025  uefa25

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00:00Here we go. How many?

00:14What's the number?

00:18I think there is only one channel.

00:22Is everyone ready?

00:29Let's start.

00:33Erhan Seven, TRT Sport. First of all, I would like to express my condolences.

00:37I have a short question for you tonight.

00:39Coach, why did Fenerbahce lose?

00:41There are penalty positions in the match.

00:43The referee's decisions, running positions.

00:47Fenerbahce played well. Why did Fenerbahce lose?

00:52We won. We won tonight. We won 2-0.

01:04I think we lost the tie for different reasons.

01:10The first reason was because in the first match we were not good.

01:15In the first match we were punished with a result that created a difficult situation for the second match.

01:24But in the second match we played a fantastic match.

01:29Only one team played. Only one team scored.

01:34Only one team deserves to score more.

01:38Only one team deserves to win after 90 minutes.

01:42Only one team deserves to win after 120 minutes.

01:46Only one team had three penalties.

01:53If you don't get three, you get two.

01:57If you don't get two, you get one.

02:00If you don't get one of three, everything is strange.

02:07But it's also strange the way we were knocked out of the Champions League with a VAR penalty on minute 120.

02:15Then on the penalties they scored and we didn't.

02:20That is obvious.

02:23But especially after my words in the first match where I had fair play and I was honest and I told we deserved to lose.

02:35In this match, please don't call me no fair play because this is not about fair play in this case.

02:43We were the best team. I think everybody in this room, even the ones that support Rangers,

02:51I think we all agree that we were the best team by far.

02:56Jose, when it comes down to the penalties, is it just a lottery at that point or does the atmosphere play a part?

03:03No, I don't think...

03:05OK, the atmosphere probably supports the home guys, but I don't think so.

03:11It's a question of the moment.

03:15We trained three days in a row.

03:21We trained penalties three days in a row, which was an optimistic approach.

03:28Because to think that we could come here and win by two goals difference was an optimistic approach.

03:37The players were confident. The players wanted to take.

03:41But then when you miss the first, it immediately creates some more pressure.

03:49It is what it is.

03:52I don't like to say penalties are just luck.

03:56If you look at Real Madrid, the penalty that Rudiger scored is a little bit of luck.

04:01The penalty that Alvarez missed is a little bit of luck.

04:08Today, I don't think it was luck.

04:11They scored, we didn't score.

04:15To be knocked out, I prefer to be knocked out this way.

04:21Being the best team, having a great comeback,

04:25deserving to win over 90, over 120 and losing on penalties.

04:30I know it hurts more. I know that for us to play Sunday is going to be very, very hard.

04:37But I prefer to lose this way because the team morale has to be high.

04:42The confidence has to be high.

04:45We have now 20 matches.

04:48We lost one match in 20.

04:50We lost at home against Rangers.

04:52After that, defeat was very important for us to go back to victories,

04:56to go back to good performances.

04:58And we did it.

05:05The only thing that is still on the back of my mind is

05:09if everything that happened to my team this season in Europe,

05:15if it has something to do with the Budapest final.

05:20I want to think that it has nothing to do with it.

05:24It's just bad luck.

05:27And nothing has to do with that.

05:30I want to think that way.

05:33Jose, tight margins tonight.

05:36So much of your career has been defined by winning big trophies.

05:39How much self-confidence do you have that you can still get to win European finals?

05:43And do you think you can do so with Fenerbahce?

05:45European finals normally depends on the clubs where you are,

05:49on the potential of the clubs where you are.

05:53I know that I did it with Roma.

05:55That never does it.

05:56I know that I did it with Porto.

05:58That did one in the last 25 years.

06:02But normally the big trophies are for the big teams.

06:06You look to the history of Turkish football

06:09and you know that for Turkish clubs it's almost an impossible mission

06:13to get even to semi-finals.

06:17Imagine finals, imagine winning trophies.

06:21But I think today we proved that we could perfectly be in the quarter-finals.

06:34I think we did a fantastic match.

06:36It's not easy after losing 2-0 at home.

06:39It's not easy to come with a mentality, with a spirit,

06:43to go against a fantastic crowd,

06:46to go against a team that was very defensive

06:50and then they were trying to counter-attack.

06:52We were calm, we were organised.

06:55The only thing that we missed was to kill the game with 3-0.

06:59We could do it over 90.

07:02We could do it over 120.

07:05The VAR decided that on minute 120 we didn't have a penalty.

07:11Probably to win it or to miss it.

07:14But a third penalty that they didn't give us I think is too much.

07:19But that's life.

07:25Jose, having watched Rangers closely over the last two matches,

07:30how far can they go in this tournament in your opinion?

07:35In my opinion, I want to be respectful.

07:40I want to respect the guys, I want to respect the coach,

07:45I want to respect the fans.

07:48In football anything is possible.

07:53But I played against Bilbao in the group phase.

08:00Bilbao is a stronger team.

08:05And the final is in Bilbao.

08:08The road to Bilbao...

08:11I don't know what happened today with Roma,

08:13I just know that after 10 minutes Roma was playing with 10 men.

08:22So honestly I think if Rangers does it against Bilbao,

08:26it would be phenomenal.

08:29Because it's going to be very hard.

08:31Thank you, good night.

08:34Good night.

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