Galatasaray Coach Okan Buruk made a statement after the Bodrum FK match, which was won 1-0.
Here are Okan Buruk’s statements:
“CALCULATIONS WERE MADE BEFORE THE MATCH”
“It didn’t seem difficult, it seemed easy, but we couldn’t score the second goal. I want to congratulate the players of both teams. Playing a match on such a field, in such an environment… Our opponent may be used to this, it is an advantage, but it is not available in any football environment here. This is clear.” It should be noted that this is combined with the wind. The grass is left long and it is not watered before the match. These two teams are already a good team. I especially congratulate them. “We gave away one position, and we gave it away in the critical minute. The game in the first half was not what we wanted. Both the effect of the wind and the atmosphere of the match… We created positions, but they produced less than normal.”
“THE RED CARD WAS CORRECT”
“Our opponent received a red card from the second yellow. It is a very correct second yellow card. No matter how you look at it, the second yellow and red card are correct. Everyone says this. Let’s underline this.”
WARNING TO PLAYERS…
“A good match cannot be played under these conditions. In general, I congratulate the players of both teams. They retreated and made transition attacks. On behalf of my team, sometimes we were tempted to score a lot of goals in the offensive sense, 6-7 people went forward. I moved Jelert to right-back. Then, Barış was also very forward. Both of our backs were wingers. We gave the opponent a chance in the transition, but at the end of the match, he hit the post. “We might be upset. I need to study better and explain it to my players better. Individual successes do not matter. I will need to explain this to my players better. We will explain this in the first training.”
“IT WAS A DIFFICULT AWAY”
“We continued by winning and breaking records. We won today too, but there are positive and negative things. It was a difficult away game. Then sunny, warm weather will come. Now there is windy weather.”
PLAYER CHANGES
“Barış started as a wing-back. We started with a 3-man defense. Roland and Barış were on two wings. One of the reasons why I used Yunus a little more up front is that he played a lot of matches. Yunus is a little more tired, I took it at 60. It is difficult to play wing-back. , it happens more and more. Since Sallai will not play in Europe, there will be a rest period. We started the second half with 10 players left and we switched to Batshuayi. We played a lot there, we created clear positions. A team of our quality could have done better, we could have scored the second goal. Batshuayi and the other players who entered the game had a positive impact on the game. Especially the injury of Jakobs in the left-back position pushes us to look for something different today. He was injured. I hope it won’t last long. Davinson’s absence, Nelsson went to the national team and returned late, we will use different systems in Europe and the league. play.”
Source: www.star.com.tr