Actually Fenerbahçe played better in the first half. But I think Rangers' physicality was better than Fenerbahce's physicality. Also, if Fred had been in this match, the quality of physical power would have been in a different balance. Mourinho makes his teams defend well. But in this game Fenerbahçe were very bad defensively. 2nd goal was embarrassing for Fenerbahçe in every sense of the word. Rangers had an easy win. I think they will be the favorites in the rematch. And I think there is very little chance for Fenerbahçe to go through to the next round.
Rangers were faster and couldn't win because of that. Mourinho likes his teams to have a good defense, but Fenerbahce doesn't have that, he hasn't been able to achieve that yet, maybe he didn't have enough time for that, or maybe he wants to change something. I know that Mourinho had high hopes for the Europa League, now it looks like Fenerbahce has no chance to fix anything in the return match, since the two-goal difference will be very difficult to make up.
Fenerbahce's overall performance was good. But Fenerbahce did not have a strong defense to resist Rangers' fast counterattacks. And that is why Fenerbahce lost this match. We saw Fenerbahce's dominance in Fenerbahce's home match. Fenerbahce players were able to make a lot of attacks. But even then Fenerbahce lost by 1-0. It is very unlikely that Fenerbahce will win by 3 goals in the second leg match. So Mourinho will have to give up the hope of the Europa League now. And he will have to focus more on the Super League.