Gaziantep FK Coach Ricardo Sa Pinto: Junior Morais will stay with us

Gaziantep Football Club Coach Ricardo Sa Pinto held a meeting with local and national press members with the participation of Vice President Müslüm Özmen and Board Member Erhan Özmen. At the meeting, Ricardo Sa Pinto made statements about the process of coming to the team, transfers, Galatasaray match, Junior Morais incident, the general situation of the team, Hatayspor match and season planning. The 48-year-old Portuguese coach of the Gaziantep team stated that the Galatasaray match they will play on Friday will be difficult, and that Junior Morais will remain in the team.

“WE WILL FIGHT FOR 3 POINTS IN THE GALATASARAY MATCH”
Gaziantep FK Coach Ricardo Sa Pinto stated that the Galatasaray match they will play on Friday will be a very important and great match for them and said, “Galatasaray is an important and great team. We will play a very important and big match with Galatasaray on Friday. It will be a match that we need to take responsibility. Of course it is a big club like Galatasaray and we want to win against them. We need to be at the highest level of our capacity. We need to be better. The key word for this match is to be better than them. We show great respect to our opponent and we will fight for 3 points until the last drop of our sweat. ” said.

“MORAIS WILL STAY WITH US”
Ricardo Sa Pinto announced that Junior Morais, who left the team yesterday, will continue to stay in the team, saying, “Morais played a very good match yesterday. It is not easy to play against a player like Akintola. So yesterday he played very well. He showed his intelligence and quality. Nor did the team deserve to lose two points. He also thought that two points were lost because of him and was very upset. At that time he gave such a reaction without thinking in the locker room. We will get him back in our group and show him how important he is. So with us “will remain, will continue to stay with us” he said.

“I WILL NOT CHANGE THE SYSTEM NOW”
The Portuguese coach, who said that the team did not think to change the system they are used to, but that they will try various different systems from time to time, said, “I know all of my players one hundred percent. I will get to know them more in every match, each training. I will see more how the players are, what characters they are. The system that I play is generally systems like 3-4-3, 4-3-3 but the current system of the team is also very good. I think that this system should not be changed for now. But my intention is to create an alternative system. I also think of a system that can play more forward-looking offensive football, “he said.

“I CONSULTED JOSE COUCEIRO WHEN THE OFFER COMES”
After receiving an offer from Gaziantep team, Sa Pinto said that he spoke with Jose Couceiro, one of the former coaches of Gaziantepspor, and got an idea and said, “Former Gaziantepspor’s coach Jose Couceiro is my close friend. I consulted him when the offer came. He told me very good things about the club and the city. Years have passed. And although many things have changed, the beauties he mentioned continue. I also talked to foreign football players who played in Gaziantep before coming here and they all said positive things. Gaziantep is a beautiful and big city. I get used to it every day. We want to work harder and succeed here every day. . I came here to be successful, “he said.

“WE DESERVED THE WINNER”
Stating that they missed the victory with the last minute goal in their first match with Gaziantep FK and that this made him very sad, Pinto said, “We did not expect such a result in yesterday’s match. We played a very good first half, but the result was bad. Our opponent was a strong opponent. It was a team that won four matches in the last five games. That is why we played very well against an important opponent. They just tried to use the individual quality of their players. We controlled them very well, but it is not easy to maintain it constantly. Our team played well. The team has a very busy match schedule. So there was physical fatigue. In my opinion, the referee played the match for an extra two minutes. Neither I nor anybody understood it. We lost 8 points like this during the league. If we didn’t lose those points, we were at the top. We had an unlucky moment yesterday. “I want the authorities to pay attention to such things. We want a more fair administration,” he said.

“WE WILL TRY TO PAST THE REST OF THE SEASON ALSO”
Saying that Gaziantep FK has started the season a lot and they want to keep it going, Sa Pinto said, “We are a good team that had a very good season. We will do very well in the rest of this season. But it is not possible for us to play every match very well. He would like it in yesterday’s match. We do not want to lean back in the second half. We want to continue the process that goes well in the second half as in the first half of the league. I want to think about the season match match. match. I and my players know what we want and we will fight for it, “he said.