Fenerbahçe coach Luis Aragones spoke to the media following his team's 2-1 victory over Eskişehirspor Sunday night. The coach despite the victory, he's not pleased with his team's performance. He also said that his team is motivated, but they'll need to play better football if they are to get back into the title hunt.

Coach Luis Aragones didn't sound like a winning coach Sunday night. After his team's 2-1 victory, Aragones said he wasn't happy with his team's performance against Eskişehirspor.

"I don't like the style of football that was played," Aragones said. "I've already expressed this before - the fact that I don't like long balls. They intercepted all the long passes that were intended for our forwards," he said.

Aragones told reporters that his team was motivated to win the game, but he said they should have won by a greater margin. "We had more chances than they did, so I feel like we won in a fair way. If a team walks on to the pitch with this much anxiety, it's not possible for them to play well," he said. "Maybe we won the match, but we could have won by a much greater margin," Aragones told reporters.

"I don't know why our players were so angry, but they were. Every team that has the goal of winning the championship has motivation," Aragones said. "We also have the necessary motivation, but it's not enough to win the championship. You need to play well, achieve good results, and win matches," he said. "With eight matches to go, every team has a shot to win the championship. We know we also still have a chance."

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Reports out of Spain and Türkiye Monday state that Fenerbahçe will part ways with coach Luis Aragones after the season. According to Spanish media reports, the coach will provide commentary for the Confederation Cup matches in Spain in June. The veteran technical director will then bid farewell to Fenerbahçe afterwards.

It's been a rough debut season with Fenerbahçe for Luis Aragones. The Spanish coach took over for Brazilian legend Zico last summer, but he's failed to work his European magic with the club thus far. Now comes word that his debut season with the club could also be his farewell season.

According to reports out of Spain, Aragones has been hired by Spanish television network Tele5 to provide commentary for the Confederation Cup in June. The reports go on to say that Aragones and Fenerbahçe will then part ways as the club looks to potential replacement Roberto Mancini to take over.

Aragones currently has a two-year deal with Fener, but club administrators are reportedly unhappy with the team's performance this season. They currently sit fourth in the league standings.

Turkish newspaper Milliyet has confirmed the Spanish reports, saying that Aragones is excited to return to his native country. "After being away for a year, I'm very happy to be returning to my country," Aragones reportedly told Tele5.

Spain will participate in the Confederation Cup matches this summer. Those games will take place between June 14 and June 28 in Spain.

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Fenerbahçe manager Luis Aragones spoke to the press after his team's 2-1 loss at the hands of Bursaspor on Friday evening. The Spanish coach admitted that the team has not been performing well and that the five points dropped in the last two weeks have put them in an even tougher position.

The Yellow Canaries boss began his post-match press conference at Bursa by stating that his team had dropped five points in the last two weeks. "These have been games in which we haven't been able to play well," admitted Luis Aragones. "Today we were able to find the goal and it stayed like that for a long time; but then we conceded goals," he said.

Luis Aragones said he didn't have a clear vision on the position Bursaspor earned a penalty-kick. "But the truth is, we didn't play well," admitted the Fener boss. "And now our job has become a bit more difficult," stated the experienced coach.

Aragones was then reminded of something he had constantly repeated in the past few weeks. "What I meant in saying the last five or six weeks will determine who wins the Championship was that we would be two or three points either in front of or behind the top of the table," answered Aragones. "I hadn't imagined this," he admitted. "But after these games, we can see that we've lost a few things," added the Fener boss.

"After scoring today, we wanted to play counter-attack football, but we couldn't do that properly," claimed Luis Aragones. "On the other hand, our opponent was doing things the right way," he said. "We couldn't take control of the play," admitted the Yellow Canaries coach.

"We have made too many bad passes in the last two games," admitted Luis Aragones. "If you lose the ball this much, you're bound to receive many attacks on your goal," he explained as he ended his words on Friday evening.

Meanwhile, Bursaspor coach Ertuğrul Sağlam thanked his players for their performance and stated that they deserved to win against Fenerbahçe.

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Captain Alex de Souza's injury has left Spanish coach Luis Aragones pondering about his starting eleven for this week's Bursaspor match. Papers have begun listing the Fener boss' alternatives. It looks as if Luis Aragones may even start with two forwards, Dani Güiza & Semih Şentürk.

Fenerbahçe's no. 10 Alexsandro de Souza is undoubtedly an indispensable player for the Yellow Canaries squad as he has scored more than a hundred of goals for the club. But the Brazilian playmaker's injury against Kocaelispor last weekend will definitely leave him out for this weekend's match and possibly make him miss the following week's action too.

Alex's injury thus forces Luis Aragones to change his tactical formation. The sports press in Turkey have begun elaborating different alternatives for the Spanish coach. There's almost a unanimous decision concerning the strikeforce in the starting eleven.

It was constantly written that it's almost impossible to field two strikers in front of an Alex de Souza playing in the AMC (attacking midfielder - centre) position. However, without Alex in the squad Hürriyet, Vatan and Lig TV have wrote that Luis Aragones is very likely to field both Dani Güiza & Semih Şentürk in his starting eleven against Bursaspor.

On the other hand, Hürriyet also writes that if Deivid de Souza recovers in time for Friday evening's fixture, then he's the one most likely to replace the Fenerbahçe captain, and thus not Dani Güiza. Vatan in the meantime predicts that the Spanish coach will most definitely field Gökhan Emreciksin on the right flank, instead of Colin Kazım-Richards who he fielded last weekend.

According to Hürriyet and Vatan, both Emre Belözoğlu and Deniz Barış's places are almost certain in the starting eleven, forcing newly recovered Selçuk Şahin to sit on the bench. Meanwhile, Lig TV also puts forth the option of fielding Emre Belözoğlu in Alex de Souza's position.

No one knows for sure who Luis Aragones will field on Friday night, not even Aragones himself. But one thing's for sure, the Spanish coach has got a lot of thinking to do as the Bursaspor fixture approaches.

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"I accept 29 players in my aggregation and my alone ambition is to advice them developing in training. I try to accord a adventitious to every amateur to prove themselves. Today Önder acclimated his adventitious in the best accessible way. I'm added than just annoyed with his abundant achievement tonight. I achievement Edu will balance and accompany us actual soon.", appear Fenerbahce drillmaster Aragones afterwards the achievement adjoin Bursaspor in Istanbul.

"Of advance we capital to account as abounding goals as possible, but we absent two bright affairs and our burden bootless in bearing a additional reward. Actually, we could accept denticulate added goals."

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''I cannot affirmation that we fabricated an absorbing alpha to our Turkish Alliance campaign, but we managed to alpha assuming at our best. Now that we said goodbye to the UEFA Champions League, there are two added continued anchorage advanced of us: the Turkish alliance and the Turkish Cup.We accept angry spirit. I don't see any obstacle that could anticipate us extensive our targets.'', appear Fenerbahce drillmaster Luis Aragones today on FB TV.

''During the aboriginal bisected of this division we had some ups and downs, but my players did their best to accomplish abiding they will win the acme at the end.''

''I anticipate that we are developing in training every day.There is actually no negativity in our camp. My players accept got the aptitude there that can could cause teams problems. We apperceive that there's so abundant added to appear from them.''

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''Today we created lots of bright affairs and adapted this victory. I congratulate my players on this victory. It would be bigger if the account was greater, but we defeated Denizlispor and that is what affairs to me appropriate now. During the bold we had some ups and downs, but my players did their best to advance their best Turkcell Super League campaign. If you wish to win the crown, you accept to accept abroad wins, so that's what we approved to accomplish today.'', appear Fenerbahce drillmaster Aragonés afterwards today's achievement in Denizli

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