Anastasiou: “We had a lot of problems in the second round, bad luck in the playouts and we paid for it”

Yiannis Anastasiou commented on Panaitolikos’ bad performance from the second round onwards, after the defeat by Atromitos.

The Greek coach emphasized that his team had many problems from the return to action after the World Cup and afterwards, while he added that the Agriniotes were unlucky in the playouts and paid for it.

His statements in detail:

“I can’t say much about the game, it was a game that for us was Karelis’ phase, if he scored the goal on the post it was at a good time, we played better on the field. The moment you take a risk and open yourself up you know you will be vulnerable back…. We in general in the play outs paid for our bad luck in many games, we missed many chances, every chance we created we probably didn’t finish it as we should have, we had enough goals but certainly our image in the play outs is not the one that suits us, the one we had in throughout the season. We can say a lot, but now is not the time to finish and from then on, the relevant recommendations should be made to the management and the management should decide.”

For the mediocre image of the team from the second round onwards: “The second round was not good since Cornelius left, Flores left, they were not replaced, we had a lot of problems, we used in the second round 4 left backs, 3 right backs, 4 goalkeepers, we changed our central defensive duo 8-9 times, it was difficult, we had no options, we had injuries and we were not consistent in our performance in the second round. The rest are details. Let’s try to have a good image with OFI because we have to make a good appearance, we owe it to our fans”.