Şenol Güneş: We have upset our chairman Hacıosmanoğlu

In the 3rd week match of the Ziraat Turkish Cup Group A, Trabzonspor defeated Rizespor 5-2 at home and advanced to the quarterfinals. Trabzonspor Technical Director Şenol Güneş made a statement at the press conference held after the match.

Reminding us of his statement from last week, Şenol Güneş stated that he did not want to upset the President of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) İbrahim Hacıosmanoğlu, and said, "I will not say anything new about the statement made by the club. Last week, my statements made me feel a little bit like a minibus, you asked me questions. Hacıosmanoğlu upset our president, he sent me a message. I am telling Hacıosmanoğlu; they are deceiving you. You need to be impartial. Be careful.. Do not take sides in the circles, you are impartial, you are above all. The president of the federation is an important place. You are a decent man, a brave man. They bring you to the minibus, make you make some statements, make you fasten the first button wrong, make you fight with the bottom button. Your coming here as the president. Why am I saying this, as a football man? We may have won the match today. It does not change at all. In other words, everything is done to disrupt the order of our game. People get angry, players get angry. They start making mistakes. The results are a different thing. The referees are right too." used.

"I KNOW HIS MANLINESS AND HONESTNESS"

Güneş, who stated that he loved the TFF President and knew his bravery, said, "I feel sorry for the president, I love him too. I know his bravery, I know his honesty. But when you make a mistake, you start making mistakes and the referees are affected by this. The best and the weakest. I am not saying this to get into the subject of the referee today, these need to be corrected. The president already makes statements, the board of directors makes them. I won the last match, why should I talk about the referee or the referees? The referees have no bad intentions but if they make a mistake, they end up in the same place. You put a guard at the door of the treasury, he is a very honest man, the treasury is stolen. You put a fraudster, you know he is a cheater, it is stolen again. I want to protect the treasury, it does not matter who he is at the door. Don't take the treasury away from us. This is capital, it is going away. Indifference and distrust will increase. The federation president, me, all the coaches, players and management are all responsible for this. We won today. I do not want to get into the referee but if there is a mistake and it continues, it is right for us to hit the wall with the same mistake; "I agree with the management's statement," he said.

"THE DIFFICULT MATCH WAS EASY"

Şenol Güneş, who also evaluated the match, said, "Unfortunately, we could not guarantee points when we went to the last match in the group in the cup match today. Rizespor is also a good team, they have a good coach. They play good football, they won last week. The difficult match was played by our players with a high level of game discipline, desire to win and the appetite to play together. The concentration was at the highest level. They reflected it on the field, the difficult match was easy. I think they did good things in terms of football. They were very good both in offense and defense, in attack variations and in defense, in pressures. I can say many positive things about today. When we look at the game in the whole match, I think we deserved it. I think that not only the players in the first 11 but also the players who entered later were good, I am satisfied."

"THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO WIN MATCHES BOTH IN THE LEAGUE AND ON THE AWAY PLAYER"

Güneş, who noted that winning the league and especially away games is important, said, "We had complaints before. As a result, we got out of the group. There is a natural advantage to coming out first. In fact, we could have seen some players here, a little late, if we had guaranteed that we should have gotten out of the group. But now it is so good. We saw what a team can do by playing one after the other, they have no physical problems, they have no technical-tactical deficiencies. Now it needs to be made sustainable. I hope we continue this. If we can complete the players we have in our squad, both as 11 and numerically 15-16, whatever, up to 20, we will have done a successful job. Cup games will continue. But the important thing is to win away games in the league. I congratulate my players and thank the fans."