Metaxas: “Let’s go strong in the last three matches of the year”

Do not let anyone in the team be affected by the competitive problems that o PAS Giannina. This was pointed out by Iraklis Metaxas in today’s press conference in view of the match with Volos. The coach of the team of Ioannina thus sent his message to everyone, both inside and outside the team, for the next games.

“We are going strong in the last three matches of the year“, He stated.

The statements in detail:



For the weather conditions that now make it difficult for the team to prepare and whether it is added to the general difficulties in view of the match with Volos that Milinceanou and Gardavski will be absent:



“It is a difficulty that we know, we know, we made some efforts to improve the situation and it improved somewhat, but not enough. We will make other efforts to overcome this obstacle as well “.

On whether the “professional victories” of the Lamia type are in the plus of the team or it is scary because you play with “fire”:



“We have reached a point, that is, to beat Lamia with one goal and not be happy… This is good. I will put it in the positive, because a few are no longer enough for us. But we know who we are, how we started, with what forces we achieve everything you see. So far I’m satisfied, but it ‘s not enough to stay there now. We want to be happy at the end of the championship and not now “.

For his “apology” in the press conference of the match with Lamia that the team did not offer a spectacle and if sometimes “the purpose sanctifies the means”:



“It simply came to our notice then. We do not get points for a beautiful phase. We play to win, to get points, to climb each time and one place above where we are. We did it away from home and that makes me happy. What I meant after the match with Lamia was that in that match we had to keep some balance, because I saw this distant ball that they made. They were trying to pull us out, which we suffered in the friendly with Panetolikos. In that friendly we had a nice image then while we were pushing, but we conceded 3 goals. Now we have not even accepted a phase. And this is something that pleases the coach and I hope the people as well “.

For the change of coach in Volos:



“He has not played without a coach yet, now will be the first game. Volos is a team that likes to play ball and play passes. His players have very good technique, they know what to do with the ball. Now lately the results have not come out, but let us not forget that in the beginning everyone was talking about Volos. This is changing fast. We will be ready to face the Volos of the beginning, which made good appearances, and to ‘fight’ this Volos “.

For the three high-intensity matches that will be required of the players, at a time when PAS has two injured (Milinceanou and Gardavski) and two punished with PAOK (Perea and Karachalios) and how difficult these absences will be for him:



“Yes, they are difficult, but most teams have these problems, not all because there are teams with bigger rosters and more depth. In a year, however, you will have these problems, the issue is how you will deal with them. We are trying to find the best way and we are going strong in the last three games of 2021 “.

On whether there is a case to disorient the many transfer scenarios for players (today it was also written about PAOK’s interest in Lodingin) and what is being said about the best defense in Greece:



“And that’s in the game. For the first to say, transfers are made, various things are written, etc. We discussed it yesterday in the video analysis, but also today with the children. It should not affect you in what you do. When you go out for training or to play 90 minutes of football, all this should not affect you. If you can do that, then we are talking about a professional. If they influence you, then you are an amateur. And the other one who works in the supermarket should not be influenced by what happened at home, because then he will go to the cash register and hit the wrong numbers.

For the defense I want to say that the defense is not the 4 players. They are all players who defend. It starts from the front and I think it is something we have achieved this year and we need to talk more about the other kids because we do them injustice if we only talk about 4-5-6 players. If my neighbor helps me, then I have 60% work instead of 100% and I may have 40% at my disposal to go ahead and score the goal. But that depends on the work of the teammates around me and it starts with the center forward. “That’s why you often hear me shouting first at the center for defense and then at the back.”

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