As his Fenerbahce team drew 1-1 in their Europa League match on Friday, Jose Mourinho was sent off during his reunion with his old team, Manchester United. After a furious altercation with referee Clement Turpin in the second half, Mourinho was sent off after the Frenchman waved away a penalty against Manuel Ugarte. The vibrant Before continuing to discuss Turpin’s performance, Mourinho first informed reporters he didn’t want to talk about the issue. “He gave us some amazing information,” Mourinho said to TNT Sports. He claimed to have seen both my actions on the touchline and the action in the box at the same moment. “I congratulate him because his peripheral vision is truly amazing.” He kept a watchful eye on the penalty scenario, the bench, and my actions during the 100mph game. That’s what he explained to me. He is among the world’s top referees because of this.
Christian Eriksen gave Manchester United the lead in the fifteenth minute, and Youssef En-Nesyri equalised in the forty-ninth after heading home unmarked from close range on a cross from Allan Saint-Maximin. Mourinho claimed his team deserved more, but the outcome kept Fenerbahce undefeated with five points from three games. “I think it’s fair to say that we played an amazing game and outperformed them, so Man United had a good outcome,” he remarked.
“My boys had a fantastic game. We faced off against a team that is more skilled than ourselves. We ended the game with a right-back playing left-back and a centre-back playing right-back. We had to complete a challenging puzzle, but the players’ performance was outstanding, and I couldn’t have asked for more. During his tenure at Old Trafford, Mourinho guided United to victory in the 2017 Europa League.
With an unexpected home draw against FC Twente and a goal in extra time preserving them from a loss in Porto, the Red Devils have had a dismal start to the new competition.
Richarlison scored the game-winning goal in the second half to help Tottenham defeat AZ Alkmaar and win three straight European games in London, marking his first start of the season. After originally refusing to pass the ball to James Maddison, the Brazil international scored from the penalty spot in the 53rd minute to avoid a dressing down after the game. After preparing to take the penalty, Maddison passed it back to Richarlison, who scored. Maddison described the circumstances leading up to Richarlison’s objective. “At first, we both wanted to accept it,” he stated. I was about to take the spot, but as I stood there, I thought to myself, ‘Richy just came back from an injury, it can be difficult for a striker.’ I’m a senior player and captain today. “It will be extremely beneficial for him if you make the snap decision to let him take it.” Spurs won their sixth straight game despite Ange Postecoglou’s nine changes from the Premier League victory over West Ham United, which ended in a 4-1 victory. Questions concerning the penalty incident were posed to the Australian coach.
“It doesn’t really bother me as long as they score,” he stated. “Madders was excellent today, in my opinion. He was captain tonight, and because of his inventiveness, he caused them trouble. I believe he recognised that Richy had put in a great deal of work and that tonight was sort of the start of his season. “I thought Madders made a great decision to give him the responsibility because goals are important for strikers, but Richy had to put it in the net, and he did that.” “As long as they score, buddy, I couldn’t care less,” Postecoglou continued in an interview with TNT Sports regarding the penalty incident.
In other matches on Thursday night, Glasgow Rangers defeated FCSB of Romania 4-0 at home, and Ajax Amsterdam defeated Qarabag 3-0 in Baku despite Qarabag finishing with nine men. Lazio defeated Twente 2-0 in the Netherlands, while Eintracht Frankfurt, the 2022 Europa League champions, defeated Latvia’s RFS 1-0 thanks to a late strike from replacement Hugo Larsson. In Sweden, Olympiacos, the Conference League winners from the previous season, defeated Malmo 1-0. Due to the regional turmoil, Real Sociedad defeated Israel’s Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-1 on the road in Belgrade, Serbia, and another Greek team, PAOK, rallied from a two-goal deficit to salvage a 2-2 draw with Czech team Viktoria Plzen in Thessaloniki.
Roma, Ferencvaros, Besiktas, and Athletic Bilbao all prevailed by the identical 1-0 margin.
