The Turkish football players and especially national coach Senol Günes are facing stormy days after the EM debacle.

A few hours after the qualifying round at the European Championship, the media outrage about the national team immediately broke in.

“THE END”, “Klatsche” and “Embarrassment” were the headlines of the newspapers at home after the 1: 3 on Sunday at the preliminary round against Switzerland in Baku.

“You may not get past the group games.

But you have no right to play such bad football ", the daily newspaper" Aksam "etched on Monday.

The third defeat in the third European Championship game against Switzerland was the bitter end of a completely messed up European Championship for the proud football nation.

"We are not sad, we are ashamed," wrote the daily newspaper "Milliyet".

The criticism of coach Günes was particularly strong.

"Senol Günes was left with the wrong squad selection, bad football he let play and his inability to decipher his opponent," wrote the sports newspaper "Fotomac".

However, the 69-year-old Günes does not want to voluntarily quit his job.

“I'm not thinking of resigning at the moment,” said the former goalkeeper after the final tournament knockout on Sunday evening.

Whether the experienced coach, who looked after Ay-Yildizlilar between 2000 and 2004 and was third in the 2002 World Cup, is allowed to continue, of course, is not just up to him.

"I apologize to everyone"

It remains completely inexplicable why the highly traded Turks could not tap their potential.

The team around midfield ace Hakan Calhanoglu and captain Burak Yilmaz, praised by some experts as a possible positive EM surprise, travels home with zero points and only one goal after three games.

“I wanted my players to show themselves,” said Günes.

"You could not present yourself here and are very sad because of it."

Defender Merih Demiral did not even try to gloss over the embarrassing EM exit.

"I apologize to everyone," said the 23-year-old from Juventus Turin.

"When expectations are high, regrets are high too."

Why top star Calhanoglu, who played a strong season for Italian runners-up AC Milan, could hardly set any accents is just one of many puzzles.

The French champions Yilmaz did not prove his goal danger either.

For Lille OSC, he had scored 16 goals in Ligue 1 last season.

At the EM he was completely harmless.

With strong performances in the qualification, Turkey had fed the hopes of their fans for a major tournament.

The Günes team scored 23 points from ten games and defeated world champions France 2-0 at home.

In defense, the Turks were extremely stable, conceding only three goals and thus holding the top value together with Belgium.

In the three group matches against Italy, Wales and Switzerland alone, the ball landed eight times in the Turkish net.

“We didn't show the character we wanted to show,” Günes stated. The loud support from the spectators and the atmosphere at home in two games in the Olympic Stadium in Baku did not help the Turks either. Despite the EM to be forgotten, he believes in a good future for his team. “I believe that they will improve their mistakes and play better football in the future. I think the boys' future will be bright, but this tournament didn't go well for us. ”He's right.