'Calm down, it's not over', Mourinho warns Rangers

If lone Jose Mourinho's Fenerbahce players had delivered a show arsenic accomplished arsenic the 1 helium offered up.

After watching his broadside burgled successful their ain location by an progressively acquainted Rangers distant Europa League display, the Portuguese landed acold much blows connected the visitors than his squad had managed.

Rangers should "calm down". The necktie is "not over". Fenerbahce were "bad everywhere". They made "incredible, unthinkable mistakes".

The Scottish Premiership broadside were "as pragmatic arsenic I was expecting". They defended "basically well" and wasted clip with "20 injuries". Goalkeeper Jack Butland "took 30 seconds each clip helium had the shot successful his hands".

But contempt that, Mourinho said, this 3-1 decision successful Istanbul was "a bully result" due to the fact that the decision "could person been bigger".

He was referring to the information Rangers had 2 Cyriel Dessers goals ruled retired for offside aft VAR reviews arsenic the hosts struggled to quell their menace connected the break.

Ultimately, Barry Ferguson's broadside had to settee for a Vaclav Cerny treble to adhd to Dessers' aboriginal opener.

But, contempt their home troubles, they are inactive good placed to acceptable up a last-eight necktie with either Roma oregon Athletic Bilbao. Not that Mourinho agrees, of course.

"For me, I person to accidental that we deserved a punishment of this result," helium said. "But if idiosyncratic wants to inquire maine if it's over, no, I don't deliberation it's over.

"The lone happening I archer this is don't observe excessively much, due to the fact that determination is simply a 2nd lucifer to play, that's my lone advice.

"If they observe aft the 2nd lucifer I volition congratulate them but present calm down due to the fact that it's not over."

Rangers interim caput manager Ferguson agreed, albeit his words carried a small little flourish than those of his feted counterpart.

Little wonder. This was a antheral successful conscionable his 3rd crippled arsenic Rangers manager and with lone immoderate underwhelming stints successful the Scottish 3rd and 4th tiers to telephone upon.

He mightiness person won his archetypal lucifer aft replacing Philippe Clement - his broadside coming from 2 down astatine Kilmarnock conscionable 8 days agone - but that was followed by an abject location decision connected Saturday astatine the hands of struggling Motherwell.

However, Ferguson and his coaching squad watched their enactment decisions wage off, with the determination to a backmost 3 not lone making them much robust but besides giving them options connected the break.

"I conscionable thought I had to alteration the signifier and it was a gamble I was prepared to instrumentality due to the fact that I thought we could get a result," the erstwhile nine skipper said.

"It's easy, erstwhile you people a mates of goals and they get disallowed, to commencement feeling atrocious for yourself. But they kept going and stuck to the crippled plan.

"We've got to remember, it's lone half-time successful the necktie due to the fact that Fenerbahce person got 1 of the champion managers that's ever been.

"There's nary mode we deliberation we're into the past eight. Playing astatine Ibrox has been a spot of a problem, but we'll bask contiguous and past effort to hole that problem."

Double goalscorer Vaclav Cerny: "We said what we privation and however we privation to get it. We did our job. You spot the powerfulness we person erstwhile we instrumentality together."

Opening scorer Cyriel Dessers: "This is simply a precise bully feeling. It was a beauteous nighttime but we're good alert we're lone halfway there. We person to bask this evening. To travel to a hard spot against a bully squad and triumph should springiness america confidence."

Former Rangers midfielder Scott Arfield connected Sportsound: "Everybody looks down connected Scottish shot and clubs and players that play successful Scotland but it's proven clip and clip again that this nine rises to the juncture successful Europe.

"You conscionable travel to expect it connected a Thursday night... I said they conscionable person to enactment successful the tie, but they've done much than that. They are successful the driving spot now."

Former Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst connected TNT Sports: "Perfect, cleanable performance. Really arrogant of the team, truly arrogant of Barry and his staff."

Former Rangers defender Alan Hutton connected TNT Sports: "They ever had that threat. Barry Ferguson amazed a batch of radical with that enactment but it worked an implicit treat."

Former Rangers striker Ally McCoist connected TNT Sports: "Wee Barry should beryllium and helium volition beryllium highly arrogant of those boys."

BBC Scotland main sports writer Tom English: "When this Rangers squad are asked to interruption down a defence, they struggle. When it's a toe-to-toe brushwood and there's abstraction and a state to counter, they're a wholly antithetic animal."

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