Jovanovic is clear: “No long passes, look at your options”

Today’s morning schedule Panathinaikou in Austria it was also more “full” of football players. And this is because both Filip Mladenovic and the rest of the internationals (Kleinheisler, Magnuson, Verbitz, Sporar, Cerin) incorporated and trained normallywhile on Thursday Filip Djuricic is expected in Austria and Bad Erlach for the “clover”.

After the standard training session, the focus was on possession and movement with the players being split into three groups which were as follows:

Pink: Mladenovic, Sporar, Senkefeld, Cerin, Trougier, Zeka, Campetsis, Palasios, Katris

Light Green: Aitor, Ruben, Mancini, Geremeyev, Magnusson, Kleinheisler, Fikai, Kaloskamis

Greens: Verbits, Ioannidis, Bernard, Kotsiras, Huancar, Sideras, Tsokai, Frokou.

Christos Kontis was constantly giving instructions to the footballers and asked them to have the right perception to distinguish the right pass and the angle of it. In the same exercise, Ivan Jovanovic shouted to the playersafter he had watched the first part of it: “Don’t make it difficult, see your options, not long passes, close ones and let the ball pass from the inside, from the axis”.

The Serb he didn’t want long transfers in traffic exercise, but “layered” football with constant close passes and fast play. In fact, at one point Mancini made a long transfer and immediately the coach of Panathinaikos told the Argentine: “No long balls Daniel”.

Two goals followed at half court with the teams remaining the same. The peculiarity of the double-header is that there were three teams. The two were playing normally with the goal of scoring and the third was “out”, creating extra options for the team that had the ball. Something, that is, like a “stepping stone” for development.