Our Fenerbahçe Beko Men’s Basketball Team, which will face Barcelona in the 32nd week match of the 2021-22 season of Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, is as follows:
Our head coach Aleksandar Djordjevic: “After the defeat in Vitoria, we are on a difficult road trip. We play back-to-back matches, but that’s good for some of our players returning from injury to find rhythm. Especially after we lost one of our on-court leaders, Nando De Colo, in the Baskonia match, what we need is to get these names into the rhythm of the match as soon as possible. Because with Nando’s injury, we will once again have to organize ourselves and revise our game plan. Barcelona is a tough team. They are playing a very physical game. We have to play our best game, believe in ourselves and find the strength we need within ourselves and with the unity we will put forward as a team. No one should feel that they have to take responsibility alone, that would be the biggest mistake we can make. We just have to act as a team and play our best together”
Melih Mahmutoglu: “We played a very critical game for us in Vitoria, but we couldn’t get the result we wanted. Now we have five more matches ahead of us. We want to show our best game by going match by match. Barcelona is a very tough and good team. They are in the leading positions in the EuroLeague. But we will focus on our own game and continue our fight until the last ball. What we need is to be able to spread our game in the first half of the Baskonia match to 40 minutes.”
Source:fenerbahce.org
