Apostolos Oikonomou stressed that he takes responsibility for the bad start and considers that they played well only in the second set and not in the third and fourth and believes that they did not have the necessary confidence and did not put pressure on the service, stressed that he wanted to “refresh the team after the finalization of the qualification and considers the defeat a good lesson for the continuation.
Analytically: “Congratulations to the players for qualifying. It was two back to back games. I think we did not start well in the first set and I think I am responsible for that. I did not read the opponent well in relation to yesterday. I think we came in a little lazily and when the team comes in lazily, it’s the coach’s fault. I have a share of responsibility.
Then we went a little to put the most basic shape. We had problems again. With the exception of the second set, in the third and fourth we did not play as we should. We did not play as we should, because we gave them confidence from the first set and we did not put much pressure on the serve. Yesterday, you saw we did 17 blocks in three sets. Why; Because we put a lot of pressure on the service and we were good in the block-defense part.
Today, we had two players in the number ‘three’ and the number ‘seven’ who created a problem for us and I think we allowed them to create a problem. When you do not have the service, the block and the defense, which is our element, there is difficulty. The difficulty, however, we overcame, we went to 2-2, we got the qualification and in the tie break I wanted to put the other girls, because we have matches again on Saturday. I also wanted to ‘freshen up’ the team.
When you lose, you have to take lessons. The lesson today is that you must always push your limits. Nobody wins before the race and that was a very good lesson for us. We have to congratulate the opponent who played better than yesterday. We are moving forward for a better continuation “.
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