Mitchell: “We all made mistakes, I’m responsible for the last 20 minutes”

In the mistakes made by him Olympic stood a visibly disappointed Mitchell after the 2-2 of Piraeus with Aris and assumed his share of responsibility for the “suicide” of his team.

In detail what Mitchell said at the press conference about:

-whether he would follow the same tactics and make the same changes if the match took place, but also if he considers himself responsible for the result: “First I want to say that it’s a bad night for the team. We played pretty well, we were better for most of the match. We all made mistakes together, we all made mistakes together (he emphasized) and that cost us by losing two points with the draw. Certainly knowing the outcome, I would have made different changes and moves. When I made the forced substitution of Huang I didn’t expect the first goal. We all know that when a result is bad and we look for the person responsible, the first person responsible is the coach. I’m not responsible for the performance in the 70 minutes, but I am for the last 20».

-the scoring chance he missed, the changes he made and the injury problems: “Kanos will be sidelined for a while due to a knee problem. Ba has a problem in the back, hopefully it’s nothing serious and he will be available for the next game. Huang was annoyed, he said he could hold on for another 10 minutes, but we didn’t want to take any chances. He was tired from a 30 hour flight. We are disappointed, in the dressing room there is disappointment because we have expectations to close the gap. We are upset because the last 20 minutes erase the good work done in the previous 70 minutes».

– the non-use of El Arabi and the fact that Olympiacos finished the match without a goal: “There was no particular reason. We thought because of the 2-0 to take advantage of Masoura’s speed because Aris was playing forward, taking out several players. Aris surprised us with the first goal he scored».