Mourinho can't help draw comparisons with Varane over teenage defender Yusuf Akçiçek

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00:00it doesn't do well, you would kill me. I know how it is. I know how it works.

00:10I know how it works. To play the kid, 18-year-old in a match like that,

00:18I know. I'm sorry the word, but he saved my a**. He was amazing. I'm very proud of him.

00:27I trust him. He's not perfect, but he will be perfect.

00:35I don't want to compare him with Rafa Varane, because Rafa Varane won three or four Champions

00:39League, World Cup, Euros, won everything. But I played Rafa Varane when he was 18

00:47and I was not wrong. And I'm not wrong with this kid. Big personality,

00:53big personality, very confident. And again, I have also to thank the referee,

00:58because with the Turkish referee, after the big dive in the first minute and their bench

01:05jumping like monkeys on the top of the kids, with the Turkish referee, you would have

01:11a yellow card after one minute, and after five minutes, I would have to change him.

01:16So thankfully, it was a perfect experience for him and top player.