Criticism from Rıdvan Dilmen to İsmail Kartal: 'If I were Ali Koç...'

In the 27th week of the Süper Lig, Fenerbahçe faced Kasımpaşa at home.

Falling 1-0 behind, the Yellow-Navy Blues won the match 2-1 with goals from Mert Hakan Yandaş and Michy Batshuayi. With this result, Fenerbahçe moved to the top of the table with a game in hand.

After the match, sports commentator Rıdvan Dilmen analyzed the contest on TV 8.5.

Dilmen criticized Fenerbahçe's manager İsmail Kartal in harsh terms.

Here are Rıdvan Dilmen's assessments;

Who feels stress? A university student feels it if they haven't studied while preparing for an exam. If your leader is anxious from the very first minute, it affects the players, no matter how experienced they are.

It also affects 50,000 people. If you win this match, you are the leader. I have infinite respect for managers. It is said that presidents don't enter the locker room and executives don't interfere. If I were Ali Koç, I would have flown in there.

'Wait a minute guys, I guess you don't realize, the league is ending. We have no tolerance for dropping points. The team in blue has come here like Real Madrid, winning the second balls. What is this anxiety, this panic, what are these 8 back-passes?' I would say."

This victory is a very valuable one. You cannot enter a championship race with Fenerbahçe's midfield from the first half. Doesn't anyone on the bench stand up and say, 'Coach İsmail, why don't you put Szymanski in?'

Kasımpaşa determined the tempo of the match. Fenerbahçe started with an extremely low tempo. Even I didn't expect it to be this much. İsmail Kartal, interestingly, did not make any substitutions at the start of the second half; I couldn't make sense of it.