Its causes defeat of Panathinaikos by AEK tried to analyze o Ivan Jovanovich at the derby press conference.
In detail what he said about:
Magnusson’s situation and whether this change affected Panathinaikos’ game plan:
“Any injury this early is a problem. Even for the player who has to come in, who is not ready. But also, of course, for the health of the footballer who comes out. Magnuson is undergoing tests, we have no new information. We will have a better picture later.”
What happened after Juricic’s goal:
“I think we started well, we also scored the goal. Then for no particular reason we lost the game. AEK managed to increase the pressure. We were wasting a lot of time. We were dealing with things that had nothing to do with the game, with some whistles, the intensity etc. We were working more with the heart than with the mind. And that’s how AEK managed to tie us. In the second part we checked the game. However, AEK found a goal that won the match. AEK was cooler than us in some important parts of the game. From the moment we scored until we conceded the goal, we had our worst period of the game. In the duels all over the field we had to be much more focused. We lost a lot of time. We had the results and we couldn’t control the game, That was our big “foul”.
The fact that with him on the bench the team seems to overcome the bad results:
“It’s a result that hurts us all. We don’t accept derby defeats easily. We must understand what led us to defeat in order to draw conclusions that will help us in the future. Let’s stay focused on the game and not on the rest that happens in it. Not to be overly nervous, as in the first part. We have to learn and become more and more tough and demanding, first of all from ourselves, so that the results we want will come.”
The team’s reaction to the equalizing goal:
“These reactions were the main reason why we were not focused on what we should have been in the first place. A thousand things can happen in a game. A team of our level must stay focused in the match. The fact that we were not focused gave AEK an advantage. We were ahead of the score, they were losing and they were more focused than us.”
Whether he expected more from Djuricic after the goal:
“He scored a difficult goal. It was first game after some time. He tried hard enough, he gave things. For the time it was in the game it satisfied me. It was his first game after a while and it was in a derby against AEK”
The contradictory picture in the behavior in the lead with Villarreal and today with AEK:
“Different situations. Today, while we scored the goal, we conceded the equalizer from an unsuspecting phase. We made mistakes in placements. Errors in the lines and distances we had. From the equalizer until the end of the half, it was not good for us. We didn’t know what we wanted to do. We were not a team that could change what was happening in the game. We were passive. When you’re like that in a derby, it certainly doesn’t help. A lot of lost balls and duels, gaps between the lines, we didn’t know what to do with the ball, these happened between our goal and the equaliser. We were passive after the goal and we paid for it.”
His decision to bring in Ioannidis and Sporar together and how he thought it worked out:
“I’m not in favor of it, but there are some games where it might suit us to use this formation as well. It does not mean that when we have two strikers we are more threatening. But there are some elements that the opponent showed me and I thought it would be useful. I’m not against that, but our style is a bit different.”
See also his statements on COSMOTE TV after the end:
Source: Sport Fm
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