Mourinho believes the team's performance was poor, but there is still hope of promotion

Although Fenerbahce lost 1-3 to Rangers in the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, Jose Mourinho described the defeat as "a good result." He stressed that the battle in the second leg is not over yet.

In this game, Rangers handed Fenerbahce a painful defeat with Desels's first goal and Cerny's double, and ended the opponent's 18-game unbeaten streak.

After the game, Mourinho made no secret of his dissatisfaction with the team's performance, but he still maintained his belief that Fenerbahce had a chance to complete a reversal in Glasgow.

Mourinho was blunt: "We played very badly in all areas. It's not fair to say we were bad defensively because we played badly in all areas."

"You may laugh but for me it's a good result because the way we played it could have been worse."

"I know Jack Butland made three great saves. I know we probably had a penalty that was not awarded but to talk about the referee after that performance, I don't see the point."

"We created chances that we didn't take advantage of, there was no flow in the midfield and there were incredible mistakes defensively. We never really controlled the game."

"The opponent stood very low in defense and had a strong counterattack threat. It can be said that this defeat was the punishment we deserved."

However, Mourinho stressed that Fenerbahce's hope of advancing is still there: "If someone asks me if this duel is over? My answer is no. There are still 90 minutes, or even 120 minutes to play."

"That's the only positive we can hope for, but other than that I don't see anything positive to take away from this game, everything went wrong."

"My only advice to the players is not to celebrate the result of this game too much, because there is still a second round of the knockout stage."