Ahaber.com.tr asked and Okan Buruk answered! Lemina statement after the derby: If it was his current state, I would write that first

Galatasaray drew 0-0 with Fenerbahçe at home in the 25th week of the Super League. Galatasaray Technical Director Okan Buruk made statements at the press conference held after the match.

AHABER.COM.TR ASKED AND BURUK ANSWERED!

The technical man answered ahaber.com.tr's question. Ahaber.com.tr editor Okan Beltek's question "About 10 days ago, you said Mario Lemina's physical condition was not very good. But today he showed a high-level performance for 90 minutes. If you went back to the AZ Alkmaar match, would you add Lemina? Last year, you lost to Fenerbahçe in the last match. Did the lessons he learned from that hunger come to the fore in today's match? Did you shape your game today by looking at that match?" Buruk answered as follows:

"WE DID OUR BEST"

"We did not prioritize defense, we continued our pressure up front. We had 60 percent of the ball possession, in fact, a team that defends has less ball possession, our opponent had 40 percent. Maybe we made individual mistakes due to transitions, dead balls, our opponent's goal expectation, maybe our opponent's shots may seem more than ours, but we did not prioritize defense. We tried to do our best to win today."

When Lemina first came, it was something that came directly from him. He said, 'Let me prepare for 3-4 days, I haven't played a match in a long time. I haven't trained for a week, I need to prepare.' Maybe if we had used him in that match, we could have injured Lemina and put him in a situation where we couldn't use him.

'IF IT WAS CURRENT, I WOULD WRITE LEMINA FIRST'

Our own opinion is at least a week or 10 days preparation period for him, let's gradually get him in. He worked well this week and he wasn't in Europe either, we prepared him for this match. When we looked at maybe the last 8-10 minutes of this match, we saw that fatigue on him. That was the right thing for him and the team. If Lemina was in his current form back then, I would have written Lemina first.