The head coach of Turkish Galatasaray, Okan Buruk, summarizing his team’s poor performance against Dutch AZ (1:4, 2:2) in the playoff round of the Europa League for a spot in the round of 16, also recalled the match against Kyiv’s Dynamo (3:3) in the 6th round of the group stage of this tournament.
Okan Buruk“We lacked many important, effective players in these matches. We lost some due to injuries, and some due to suspensions. Álvaro Morata, one of our new players, also got injured. This happened at an unfortunate time.
But we missed our chance earlier: we could have directly entered the top eight in the match against Kyiv’s Dynamo. We could have put an end to it then. That is what we will regret the most.
As a result, we were unable to continue our European adventure, which we started very well. We apologize to our fans. We wanted to show them the final in the Europa League, but in the two matches against AZ we couldn’t play football worthy of that,” said Buruk at the press conference after the return match against AZ.
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