🚨Zlatan on Guendouzi after the Fenerbahçe vs Lyon:
🗣️ I watched the circus. Everybody wants a villain with hair. Fine. I will give you the real order of events,
“People want me to say Guendouzi is a clown. I will not.
I played in France. I know that stadium. I know that rivalry. When 55,000 people start on your mother and your children before the warm-up even finishes, that is not ‘atmosphere.’ That is cheap. In France they stop matches for less. The referee heard it. The fourth official heard it. Nobody said a word. So don’t come now with the moral lecture.
Guendouzi is a Marseille boy in a Lyon house. They chose him as the enemy before kick-off. He played 90 minutes in that noise, his team scored twice away from home, and Fenerbahçe are in the Champions League for the first time in 18 years. That is the job. The rest is theatre.
The Jul sign is not a crime. ‘Allez l’OM’ is not a crime. A middle finger after they sang about his family for an hour and a half is ugly, yes — but it is not the first punch. The first punch was in the stands. If you throw stones for 90 minutes, do not cry when one comes back.
Then a 48-year-old goalkeeping coach runs like Cantona to kick a player. That is not passion. That is a grown man losing his mind because his club just missed the Champions League again. Lyon have been outside the big table for years. Frustration is allowed. A flying kick from the staff is not. Ederson and the others did what teammates do — they stood in front of their guy. That is football. That is loyalty.
Tolisso told him to be humble. Fine. Captains talk. I respect that. But humility is not standing there like a statue while 60,000 people insult your kids. Maturity is also knowing when the other side already crossed the line.
Guendouzi could have walked down the tunnel in silence. That would have been smarter. He didn’t. He is who he is. But if we only punish the player who answers and we ignore the stadium that started it, and we ignore the coach who tried to kick him, then we are not talking about respect. We are talking about who has the better PR.
I don’t love every gesture. I love that he didn’t fold. Lions get booed. Sheep ask for a statement. That is the difference.”
Fenerbahçe, UEFA Şampiyonlar Ligi'nde! 🇹🇷
Fransız temsilcisi Olympique Lyon'u deplasmanda yenerek ait olduğu Şampiyonlar Ligi'ne geri dönen sarı lacivertli takımımızı kutluyorum.
Devlerin mücadele ettiği ligde bayrağımızı en üst seviyede dalgalandıracaklarına yürekten inanıyorum.
Tebrikler @Fenerbahce! ⚽️👏🏻
Daha önce de benzerini yaşamıştık. 2003-2004 sezonunun ilk maçında İstanbulspor’a kaybetmiş, ama sezonun sonunda şampiyon olmuştuk.
En son 2013-2014 sezonunda da Konya’da benzer bir başlangıç yaptık. Maçta 2-0 öndeydik, her şey gayet güzel gidiyordu ama maçın son bölümünde yediğimiz üç golle sahadan 3-2 mağlup ayrılmıştık. Sezona böyle başlamayı hiçbirimiz beklemiyorduk. O gün büyük bir hayal kırıklığı yaşamıştık ama sonra toparlandık, yolumuza devam ettik ve Nisan ayında Fenerbahçe olarak şampiyonluğumuzu ilan ettik.
Dünkü maçı da telafi ederiz, bundan hiç şüphem yok. Bence asıl üzerinde durmamız gereken, bundan sonra hakemlerin, VAR’ın ve MHK’nin tutumunun ne olacağı. Çünkü bir maçta kaybedilen puan geri alınır, sezon uzun. Esas konsantre olmamız, dikkatle takip etmemiz ve odağımızı kaybetmememiz gereken yer burası.
Her şeyde bir hayır var.
‘Veerman’ı almayalım Guendouzi var daha uygun’ diyip son dakika fikir değiştirten kimse Allah ondan bin kez razı olsun. Tarihimizin en iyilerinden. Böyle istikrarlı, lider, ruhuyla oynayan, kaliteli, disiplinli topçumuz en son ne zaman oldu hatırlamıyorum