Lucescu: “It is normal to have a transition in the performance of some players”

THE PAOK completed the basic stage of his preparation with lost, 3-2, to Westerlo, by Razvan Lucescu to comment after the match on the result, the appearance of his team but also the transition in the performance of some footballers.

Analytically:

“It’s the last day of pre-season and there was a big load from training, the second was that we made a mix in the two line-ups we used yesterday and today. A third part is the fatigue from double trainings and friendly games.

We can’t say anything about Ekong, Baba or Kenjiora, what we have to do is take the profit from the days they are here, from there we have no problem because we have footballers in the same position, with different characteristics that they can help us.

I don’t want to be misunderstood or for anyone to believe that we are targeting these three footballers, there are other footballers, such as Michailidis who has been absent for a long time, there are footballers, such as Tsingaras and Schwab, who have fallen on them in the midfield. It is normal for there to be a transition in their performance.

There’s Narey, who wasn’t supposed to play today, but yesterday, we gave him a day because of his long absence and the calf problem he had. It is a more general situation, that we should not target someone, such is the period when there are such problems.

Training-wise we achieved our goal, this is an element that satisfies me, from then on we have time to work on other things in view of the game with Beitar”.