Happy with the victory over Eintracht and the performance of his team, the PAOK coach said, Razvan Lucescuat the press conference.
The Romanian coach, among others, stood at the moment of the conflict after the final whistle. In fact, Lucescu emphasized that the coach of Eintracht obviously does not know him Andre Vierignaunderlining that the Portuguese reached… his limits and exceeded them!
What the PAOK coach said in detail:
“The result and the way it came show whether it was the right choice to line up an eleven with five different faces. I’ve said it before about how mental energy is consumed, but I’d say the same if we were losing.”
For the appearance of Koulierakis and Kotarski: “I have good words for everyone, Koulierakis I’m happy he scored the winning goal, I didn’t want him to leave the field with the feeling of a mistake, up to that point he played at a very high level, he’s involved in the game, he’s improved compared to last year
As for Kotarski, I tell him every day how much he contributes with his personality to the team.
It’s another small step forward, we still have four matches, 12 points. You know football hides traps, how I think, we only look at the next match, now it’s Atromitos”.
For the tension phase: “Maybe he doesn’t know Andre, his career, he doesn’t have to, I have huge respect for Andre, what he gave today, he pushed his limits, and it was normal for him to cramp at the end. We were also delaying Brandon’s change because he was telling us he might need a change. Andre isn’t kidding… I’ve seen a lot of cramping matches. They didn’t want to make it fair play, ok… we will go to the Frankfurt match with guns, they are an experienced team, they won the Europa League two years ago, they have a strong base, we will go with our guns”.
On the upcoming break and whether it will hurt the team: “As long as Ozdoev played, he was one of the team’s best players, he has improved his performance compared to previous games. In any case, time is our ally. Despodov has shown a different approach to how he goes in the phases, he had learned differently but he seems to be adapting, he entered the match and showed an aggressiveness, he gave us what we are asking for.
At the moment I don’t know if anything will change for the negative regarding the players and especially those who came in the summer. At this moment, time is not enough because of the continuous games, but we must become a whole and integrate everyone.
Time works in our favor, we had a chat with the players on Monday for over 20 minutes and I told them that their individual quality is what they give to the team until they become a whole. Of course individual quality plays a role and we need it, but I told them once they reach the readiness levels of the rest, they will be even better and more useful themselves.”.
Regarding the tension at the end of the match and whether PAOK should avoid this: “I prefer not to talk about it. In these games there is tension and it makes sense in matches and especially in games like this. I have respect for the opponent, the game was difficult but I don’t accept them talking about my players, like they talked about Andre. I wanted to defend him in relation to what the Eintracht coach said.
We are going to play there and I don’t think it affects anything. We lost Meite, they lost Trapp. I don’t know how many matches Meite will miss, it gives me the possibility to know when Meite will miss and how many matches he will miss, since anyway he will have to make decisions about player management in view of the next games.”
Source: Sport Fm
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