Domenico Tedesco (40), the coach of Fenerbahce, spoke ahead of the match against FCSB, which will be played on Thursday, January 29, from 22:00, in the last stage of the single group of the Europa League.
With qualification for the knockout stages already secured, Fenerbahce's coach pointed to FCSB beating Feyenoord (4-3) in a match they were leading 1-3. He called FCSB “a team that never gives up“.
Domenico Tedesco: “FCSB is a team that never gives up”
“We are already in the top 24, but we will face a motivated team who beat Feyenoord 4-3 after being 1-3 down. It is a motivated team that never gives up. They have a good audience, a nice stadium. We continue our way.
The weather was good, we had a good training session. It is an important opportunity to play at this level, European matches are special. In football it is normal to have good times and bad times. The beautiful thing about football is that anyone can talk about football.
After the match it's easier to tell if you did things well or not, but what you do before the match is interesting. In general, there are a lot of emotions in football”, said the coach at the conference.
Tedesco also spoke about the situation in the group he leads:
“John Duran has finished training, he felt something in his leg and could not travel with us. First of all, it is very good news that certain players can return to the field. For some of them we still have to wait a week or two. It is good that they are back in training. It is not easy without full-backs. There is never a perfect solution.
It is not easy to change the team in midfield. You can change a full-back, but it's harder when we're talking about a centre-back. There must be a fixed point there. It has to be a good pair, automations are needed”.
Domenico Tedesco: “It didn't happen to me that the boss got on top of me”
Asked if he suffered from the boss making technical decisions over him, as Gigi Becali does at FCSB, Tedesco gave a clear answer.
“I have a clear principle: if the team boss has an opinion, it must be accepted. It is important that we are all together in certain situations. It didn't happen to me that the boss made technical decisions over me“, said the technician.
