Europa League
Jorge Jesus: “Lucescu analyzed the game badly”
Turkish Fenerbahce head coach Jorge Jesus commented on his victory over Dynamo Kiev (2:1) in the first round of the Europa League group stage.
Dinamo stopped our attacks with tactical fouls in the first half. In the 10th minute, the Dynamo team committed 8 fouls and in the 25th minute the goalkeepers started to play for the time. This shouldn’t happen. I don’t know if it’s customary in Ukraine, but players shouldn’t act like that. And my team fought till the end to win this match. They applied the technical-tactical principles as best they could.
I have great respect for Lucescu. This is a proven coach, but I can give him a piece of advice: Let him look at the statistics of the match and see how many fouls the Dynamo players have committed. Medical teams entered the field 8 times. I don’t know how he watched the match, but I think he analyzed it badly. I respect your opinion, but I disagree. Dinamo tried to stop Fenerbahce players with constant fouls, especially in the first half hour. In addition, their goalkeeper is constantly lying on the field to gain time. I don’t know how he sees the match, but I respect his opinion. He has an opinion, I have an opinion, but when he looks at the statistics, he will see that he is wrong.
I did not communicate with Lucescu, I did not even see him. If we had met, I wouldn’t have talked to him about it. I can understand Lucescu, they had to play very aggressively to stop Fenerbahçe. That’s why they were committing fouls often. This was the strategy they chose. And the referee allowed it. Every coach has his own strategy. He thought this was the best way. I have no comment on this. I think the opposite of his opinion. Dynamo made 20 fouls throughout the match. We had to adapt to this situation to maintain balance in the match.
In the first half, they did not shoot on our goal. They defended throughout the match. This is normal, because we forced them into it. We got a well deserved win. We reap the fruits of our labor. Our organization on the field was good. What we have to do now is to think about the game we will play against Rennes on Thursday.
We played against them in the Champions League qualifiers. We thought we could win and move on to the next round, but you know what. That’s why we wanted to respond with a win. We showed that we are as strong a team as Dynamo. The main favorites of this group are Dinamo and Rennes, not Fenerbahce. Because Fenerbahce has lost the strong image it has built in Europe in recent years. Our first goal is to fix that. We want to rotate this image again. We know we have a chance to get out of this group and we will work hard for it.
Modern football is a game in which the defense must be well organized. But there is no need to make such movements to stop the opponent, such movements made by Dynamo in the 90th minute of the match. Such movements are no longer used in the Europa League and high-level tournaments, but such movements can be seen in tournaments that we can call second and third level. Buschan is a very good goalkeeper. Neither he nor Dynamo need to take such steps. You have to respect the game and the fans,” said Jesus.
On the Fenerbahçe official website, it was also noted that Jesus pointed to Buschan: “You can now lie on the floor as long as you want. Lie down for an hour if you want. It doesn’t matter anymore,” said Jesus.
Source: Sport UA
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english team Aston VillaThe player continues to show incredible form and has already won his 10th consecutive victory in different tournaments.
The successful series includes 7 Premier League matches and 3 Europa League matches. This is a new club record for Aston Villa.
The last win came on 21 December, when the home team beat Manchester United 2-1 at Villa Park in Birmingham.
This winning streak has allowed Aston Villa to secure a place in the top 3 (36 points) of the Premier League standings, ahead of Arsenal (39) and Man City (37).
In the Europa League, Unai Emery’s team safely passed the league stage and entered the top 3 together with Lyon and Mittjylland (15 points out of 18).
Aston Villa’s 10-match winning streak
- 21.12. 19:30. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Manchester United – 2:1
- 14.12. 16:00. nuclear submarine West Ham – Aston Villa – 2:3
- 11.12. 22:00. LE. Basel-Aston Villa-1:2
- 06.12. 14:30. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Arsenal – 2:1
- 03.12. 21:30. nuclear submarine Brighton – Aston Villa – 3:4
- 30.11. 16:05. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Wolverhampton – 1:0
- 27.11. 19:45. LE. Aston Villa – Young Men – 2:1
- 23.11. 16:00. nuclear submarine Leeds – Aston Villa – 1:2
- 09.11. 16:00. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Bournemouth – 4:0
- 06.11. 22:00. LE. Aston Villa – Maccabi Tel Aviv – 2:0
Aston Villa’s winning streak in the 2025/26 season
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Ukrainian defender Nottingham Forest Alexander Zinchenko He shared his feelings after his team beat Utrecht (2:1) in the main round of the Europa League.
“It’s a great feeling. First of all, I’m back. Secondly, it’s an incredible feeling to win a match. Getting three points today was very important for us. As you can see, it was a difficult match. But at the end of the match, I think we got what we wanted and let’s continue like that.”
“As a defender you always want to keep a clean sheet, but unfortunately we couldn’t do that today. So it’s something we need to work on in the future.”
“This is one of those matches where whoever wins the most challenges in different areas of the field will win the match. Today we won many more goals which helped us a lot in the game. But to be honest, even the opportunities we created, including me, we should have scored and finished this match earlier,” said Zinchenko.
Nottingham Forest is in 11th place in the rankings with 11 points after 6 matches in the Europa League this season.
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sports doctor Dmitry Babelyuk He was not happy with the decision made by Sean Dyche, the head coach of English Nottingham, in the match against Dutch Utrecht in the Europa League (2-1).
The Foresters’ coach has given Ukraine national team defender Alexander Zinchenko a place in the starting squad after the player missed nine matches due to injury.
“These old-school coaches never cease to amaze. In 2025, with the advancement of sports science and medicine, I don’t understand how it is possible to release a player from the winger position for a full 90 minutes at the same time after two muscle injuries.
First, Moyes did this to Mikolenko, which led to Vitaly’s relapse. Now Dyche makes the same obvious mistakes.
Understanding that Zinchenko is a player who has regularly suffered from muscle problems in recent seasons; injured twice at Nottingham in the last three months; Having not played for the last six weeks, I cannot imagine how anyone could be so negligent in getting a player into top playing form.
This is not often seen in the new generation of coaches such as Thomas Frank or Enzo Mareschi, but the old ones continue to rely on their own emotions, leaving players in danger of unnecessary relapses.
I hope everything goes well for Sasha and he returns to his best form, but playing 90 minutes at a time after two months of treatment is outright stupidity in modern football at the top level,” Babelyuk raged.
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