After the 5-2 victory against Aytemiz Alanyaspor, our coach İsmail Kartal made a statement to the broadcaster. Congratulating our players, İsmail Kartal said that he presented the victory to our fans and invited our fans to the Konyaspor match that we will play on Sunday. Here is what we gathered from the statements of our Technical Director İsmail Kartal, who also spoke about our young players in the context of Arda Güler:
“It was a very good match. A very enjoyable match was played. I said that we always work well with my players and my assistants, that our game is improving every week, and that we are advancing in a tactical and physical sense. Although we do not have the most important players today, we have analyzed the opponent very well by working very well with the players I have. We came here to win the match. We caught very nice weather, we have a very nice environment. We have won 4 of the last 5 matches, and we have drawn in 1 of them. In Alanyaspor’s away game, we had much clearer positions, apart from 5 goals and 5 goals against such a team. In the first half, we have at least 5-6 100% positions, especially until the goal and after the goal. Despite this, it was 2-2 out of 2-0. I had to balance the game there. By taking our more active, more active, more productive players to the front, we started to press ahead. The goals came right away. We knew how to turn the balanced game in our favor. It was a game with plenty of positions. Our 3 players who entered the game later scored goals. We have a rising performance. I think that every day in Samandıra, I analyze all the opponents very well together with my players and my team and explain these analyzes to our players very clearly. It makes me very happy to get rewards for this. Especially at the first goal we scored today, people may say, ‘this goal is a coincidence’, but this is not a coincidence. We studied it. It was a hard-earned gold. That’s why I congratulate my players who played very well in today’s match and put forward a very good performance.
My workouts are very fast paced and very enjoyable. We are constantly training based on tactical discipline. Together with my team, I explain very clearly what I want from the players. What do we do in offense, what do we do in defense? How can we improve, both as a player and as a team… I work day and night with my team on development every week. My players see how hard we work and put in effort with my team. They also work hard. By believing in each other and I respect my players very much, I trust them. They also respect us, they trust us a lot. There is an atmosphere of mutual trust. For example, we deliberately left the ball to Alanyaspor today; where to wait, where to press, where to accelerate the game, how to change the direction of the game, where to multiply… We are working on all of these. My players also show their hearts in a way that adheres to tactical discipline. How can we fight any more, I said before this game, ‘How much will we ask for? Okay, we are working on this match, but it is important how much we want the match, to win. How brave we will play, how much energy we will show, how much quality we will make our opponent feel. You have to show them too.‘ said. They also did the right thing. I heartily congratulate you. I dedicate this win to the great Fenerbahce fans. Let them trust us. I look forward to seeing them again for our match this weekend.
As I always say, ‘When will Arda enter the game?’, ‘When will he play the starting 11?’, we plan them really well. Today, I think I got it in the game just in time. After entering, 1 goal, 1 assist, there was an environment where he could play his game. We replaced him with his older brother Mesut and he contributed a lot. Arda is open; It works, it wants. Our son, we protect him. He will score goals, play and play. Arda will be one of the future greatest players of both Fenerbahçe and Turkish football. But we have more young people like Arda. We also prepare them. I made a plan for them. Our President asked, I made a one-month plan. There are some of our young players, our new player Isak, and I and my team, together with the professional team, will do extra training with them 3-4 days a week, apart from the normal training sessions. We will work with them privately. Our President asked, I accepted and said ‘with pleasure’. We will have our children and players in the youth do extra training after each training session, provided that it is at least 3-4 days a week.”
Source:fenerbahce.org
