Dabrauskas: “It’s disappointing – Now it’s not the appearances that count, but the points and the wins”

THE OFI he couldn’t “clean up” Lamia, even though he took the lead twice and Valdas Dabrauskas didn’t hide his disappointment with the result.

He spoke in detail about:

For the 2-2 draw in the match: “I believe that in the first half it was a battle between the plans of the two coaches. Lamia changed their formation with three stoppers, for the first time this year. We also changed our formation compared to the previous games because we expected a different approach and for that reason I think the first half didn’t flow. We knew it wouldn’t be an easy game, Lamia is a team that plays with big balls, they have a good striker like Carlitos and Slivka in the center. It’s very disappointing because we took the lead twice and in a game like this it was important to take the lead. We didn’t manage to keep the lead even after 2-2 we had a very good chance against Neira and even though we won the first two games in stoppage time, today we couldn’t get it».

On whether he is concerned because OFI has not won away from home and the fact that he has conceded 7 goals in the four matches: “We conceded seven goals but we have to count how many we have scored and how many points we have. At the beginning of the year it is difficult for any team to play because all teams are more motivated and it is different from the middle of the year. At the beginning of the year you don’t care so much about how you play but about getting the points and the wins. The normal performance of a team will be presented after 4-5 matches and I believe that the next matchday will be decisive because it starts a trio of matches. At this point it is very important that some teams will remain low or high in the standings. If you go high, you will be a favorite, if you go low, you will be an outsider. If this trio of games passes and you are above the middle of the standings, then the perception of the games also changes. Of course, I want the goals we concede to decrease and this is something we will work on a lot ahead of the match against Atromitos».

For OFI’s start in the league: “I don’t want to talk about the league or the standings because I really think it’s not the most important thing. The key is to go game by game and look to the next one. What I’m interested in is watching each game individually, and I’ll watch the table because I more or less know how many points the team needs to make the playoffs».