Itoudis: “We tried to react, but the dismissals of Papagianni-Papanikolaou didn’t help us”

The statements of Dimitris Itoudis in detail:

“We played two teams that have a chance to advance and go to the medals. Today we faced a real team, a group of players who have been together for a long time, who enjoy playing together and have found chemistry. The positive thing about yesterday’s game was that we reacted, equalized and had some conditions to go ahead, with some shots and some shots. There we lost our concentration with some whistles that were debatable. Obviously I don’t want to talk about the refereeing in a friendly game, but it’s a fact that what happened distracted us and we didn’t stay focused on our own game. In general, I think that we can only learn from these friendlies against two very strong teams that I believe will progress well.

The point is to be healthy and ready for our first final, the World Cup against Jordan. Everyone is giving their best in training, we are self-aware, but we need to be a little more focused and committed to our game plan, which cannot be the same when we face the USA or Jordan. There are days of work ahead of us and there are several elements we want to improve. Today, the fact that Papagiannis and Papanikolaou were sent off didn’t help us, but we tried to react. We should find more ways to force the opponent into mistakes and capitalize on them for points. Today we led Germany into a lot of mistakes, but we didn’t capitalize as we should have».

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