Another project in Jose Mourinho's coaching career promises to be a tough test for the Portuguese specialist. Undoubtedly, the club's players are instilled with the psychology of winners. However, in the Turkish league, where Fenerbahçe has not won for a good dozen years, the club is quite significantly behind the leading Galatasaray. And in the Europa League, the Istanbul team barely made it to the knockout rounds, having collected the same number of points as the two relegated clubs. If Braga had scored two goals against Lazio instead of one, the Portuguese club would be preparing to face Anderlecht. The Belgian club had no such problems with getting into the knockout rounds. On the contrary, Anderlecht for a long time stayed in the top 8 of the standings of the general stage. Successfully played the autumn part of the Europa League allowed the club to take the final tenth place even with two defeats in the final rounds. Bookmakers have identified the home team as favourites for the upcoming meeting, offering odds of 1.51 on their victory.

Fenerbahçe last lost in mid-December last year. It seems that the team has really reached a new level of play. On the national arena, almost all opponents during this period were defeated, and in the Europa League did exactly what was needed to participate in the knockout rounds. Of course, Mourinho did not plan to end with a draw in the final rounds against Lyon and Middtjylland. If the Istanbul team has psychological problems when playing in the European Cup, it is time for Mourinho to show his talent to motivate the players for the important confrontations.

Anderlecht do not have players of the level of En-Nesiri, Schkrynjar, Fred or Talisca, who was signed as a free agent a couple of weeks ago. The estimated value of the Belgian squad is 2.5 times lower than that of the upcoming opponent. Anderlecht could face serious problems in an away game against an opponent that is in good form. Especially, we are talking about the fourth club of the Belgian championship. We bet that the visitors will be defeated in the first leg of the duel with the Turks.