In the ability of Panathinaikos to prevail at the end of the matches stood the Demis Nikolaidis on the occasion of the “double” (0-1) of Ivan Jovanovic’s team in Ioannina, stressing that this it is not a random event, but on the contrary it is a sample of the mentality that the “greens” have.
“That a team can win in the final minutes – when they do so often – is not luck, it’s mentality“, noted the veteran ace in his show, “Monday FC”at NOVA.
From there, he referred to superiority of Panathinaikos -especially in the first half- while standing at penalty kick who got the “clover” wondering why Petros Tsagarakis initially thought that Dimitris Kourbelis had done theater.
“Panathinaikos pulled off many phases and several combinations in the first half. He had Vagiannidis as his best player. Most of Panathinaikos’ good attacks or chances were started by him or he had a part in them. Against a very good team like PAS, who tried to get ahead, but couldn’t. Panathinaikos could have taken the lead in the first half, but failed to do so.
Kourbelis did not do theater. Why should he when there is VAR? Such penalty kicking power is very rare to see. I was very impressed that the referee told him that he was acting. If we have demands from the referees, he should have whistled it even without VAR,” Demis pointed out.
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