How big was the win on Tuesday after the derby?
Erol Bulut:
I think it was a big step for us. I said before the derby, it is a derby so you prepare yourself much more different. As players and as coaches.
After that big win against Swansea, I said to the players it will not make any sense if we don’t take points on Tuesday. You will have fought for nothing.
We win, but if you lose the next game, we are in the same position we were in before. It was not only three points, it was everything, for the future and for the next games.
To believe in yourself and what we did from the start of the season until now, the steps they made. Where we are right now, for them to believe in themselves but also their team-mates.
I said that if they believe in what we are doing, you will see where we can go with this team. They ask me if I was a prophet or something like that! (laughing).
In Turkey, those teams I can compare them a little bit with Cardiff. But also over there I said they have to believe in what we are doing. In the end, I got qualification for the Europa League and I got in a cup final.
Don’t take from this that we will get into the Europa League or get promoted! I wish it. But if we believe in something, we can do a lot of things.
In the end, if this happens, I don’t know. But at least we know what we are fighting for.
Bulut
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