On Thursday, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer faces a game he has done so many times before. First as a Manchester United player, then also as a Manchester United coach. FC Twente will be ready on Thursday in the last group game of the Europa League. A game Solskjaer and Besiktas need points from. The pressure is enormous, where it boils in the Besiktas part of Istanbul. For Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, a completely normal day at work.
Before the clash, Besiktas are in 24th place – the last place to advance play. The Dutch club are two places behind Besiktas and need a win to advance.
“It’s going to be a tough game. Our opponents have a lot of young and fast players. They are also fast and play with high energy,” Solskjaer said at the press conference before the game.
We saw the immediate impact the new Besiktas coach had on the players. With a wonderful energy on the pitch in Istanbul, Besiktas sent home Athletic Bilbao with a 4-1 loss. This is the club that has been at the very top of the group stage in the Europa League, in La Liga the club was in 3rd place still in the fight for league gold. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed 2.3 training sessions with the players to create the game plan that stopped the Spanish club.
Is there anything that is certain, Besiktas have the right man on the sidelines when the Netherlands’ 3rd best club is to be demoted.
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