First double with Djuricic and a “lesson” from Jovanovic in Panathinaikos

* By Filip Djuricic participating for the first time in the entire program and playing in the doubleheader became his training this morning Panathinaikou in Bad Erlach, Austria. The Serbian international ace showed some of the elements for which he has stood out in his careersuch as his good technical training and perception of space.

He had good contacts, he didn’t make mistakes in his transfers and he had a very good vertical pass with which he put Palasios in a four-four position. He himself doesn’t seem to have the slightest adjustment problem and of course we’ll see a lot more along the way. After all, this was also his second training session in green.

* In the double-header that ended today’s morning program (the rest of the internationals did not participate), it ended with a score of 1-0 and a goal from Sebastian Palasios. The teams were as follows:

“Greens”: Lodingin, Vagiannidis, Zeka, Sideras, Huancar, Tsokai, Trouillet, Mancini, Bernard, Campetsis, Ioannidis.

“Pink”: Brignoli, Kotsiras, Katris, Schenkefeld, Fikai, Ruben, Frokou, Palasios, Djuricits, Aitor, Geremegev.

* At the beginning of the program, the football players were divided into two groups and worked first in smaller spaces and then in a larger one. In the first exercise, the work involved avoiding pressure from the ends and in the second from the axis. Christos Kontis explained to the footballers: “When there is a gap we attack this space, when there is no gap we have to create it. It looks easy here, but inside the race the conditions are much more pressing».

* Ivan Jovanovic wants almost… perfect from his footballers and knows very well that to a large extent what is worked on in the preparation, will come out during the year. So, when he saw a mistake during the second exercise, he stopped and did it remarks to Reuben about where it should be. “My bad“, said the Spanish midfielder, while the Serbian coach then addressed all the players: “Don’t run aimlessly, organize your game».

* After the end of the second half, it happened… tutoring from Ivan Jovanovic and tactical work. The Serbian coach kept a group of players (Fikai, Katris, Frokou, Vagiannidis, Aitor, Juancar, Mancini, Campetsis, Geremegev, Ioannidis). First, he showed them on a piece of paper the movements he wanted and how the two wingers should take correct positions and the two forwards should press.

This also happened during practice with Jovanovic handing out “bravo” when his players took out on the grass what he had planned and shouting “become more active“, when the footballers were late on one or two occasions. At the end of the exercise, Jovanovic called the footballers back to him for a new “lesson” and analysis, always having with him the paper on which he drew everything he asked.