THE AEK after a shocking game with an unimaginable finale, he managed to get his qualification for the playoffs to… zero Champions Leagueovercoming her obstacle Dinamo Zagreb thanks to a goal by Vida in the last phase.
The “legend” of the Union, Demis Nikolaidiswas asked to comment on his former team’s image on the first episode of NOVA’s ‘Monday FC’ show, which also began airing on ACTION24.
THE Demis emphasized that the AEK she struggled a lot because she didn’t play her game in either match, commenting that the “yellow and black” must play as they know well, otherwise they are completely disorganized.
What he said in detail:
“I saw an AEK that went to play differently. She didn’t go to impose her game. That came out on the field. He played a bit passively and this AEK cannot play passively. We said that last year too. This AEK must play its own game and whatever comes out. He can eat 3 goals. Let him eat 3 goals. But he cannot play and wait for the opponent.
AEK went there and waited for the opponent. The first half in Zagreb was very bad. I haven’t seen AEK play like this in a whole year. In the second half I have the impression that the coach told them ‘let’s go play our game’. That is, he understood it. Without catching a high performance he won.
I didn’t expect the rematch to be so difficult. I was saying that AEK must try to lose. Because I expected that we learned from the first match and we will go and play our own game. Again, AEK went to manage the score. Maybe not by command. Maybe psychologically this thing dominated the football players. Dynamo found weaknesses. AEK when they don’t play their game is completely disorganized.
And when she played her game – she can play with enthusiasm, it can seem to us that she plays with risk, but that’s what AEK plays and we like it – we saw AEK turn the game around. This thing may have a bit of luck, but what Almeida (ss.) has built is that this team doesn’t stop believing. When some good players don’t work for him, he will put some others, because AEK has quality and it will work out for him.
I was impressed that he took out Zuber, because I think he was the best player of AEK in both matches, but he knows something more than me, that’s the coach, not me. Araujo cleared one match, another may have been cleared by someone else. That was cleared by Araujo, who is impressive how quickly he came back with such an injury. It was a match that broke hearts. Luckily we passed. AEK, at least if it goes through the groups, must play its own game. AEK is a team that plays with joy and plays forward. When he doesn’t do that, he has problems.”
Source: Sport Fm
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