Fener on the Olympiakos protests: “Let’s not focus on extra-competitive factors”

On Thursday night (02/11), Mr Olympic suffered his third defeat in this year’s EuroLeague, leaving Istanbul and the “Ulker Sports Hall” empty-handed, losing to 79-77 from Fenerbahce for the 6th matchday of the competition.

After the end of the match, the Piraeus officially expressed the intense dissatisfaction them for the arbitration, with the “red and white” KAE making due to alter the result for not calling a late foul on Nigel Williams-Goss and Yam Madar.

Fenerbahce took a position on this issue this evening, with the General Manager of the Turkish club, Deria Yanierto refer in an interview to Olympiakos’ complaints.

Among other things, he emphasized that before we should not stand on extraneous factorswhile at the same time, he mentioned that before the last phase there were others that could be criticized by both teams, as of course in last year’s playoffs of the two teams.

“Initially, I don’t think it’s right to focus on extra-competitive factors. I think there is a good rivalry between us and Olympiakos. Both the playoff series last year and the games in the regular season provided great stories. I think that rivalry showed in yesterday’s game. Fenerbahce won in the end, Olympiacos had won other times in the past. I think it would be good to stay in the competitive part”initially reported the respondents Olympiakos protests to the referees in the last phase of yesterday’s match, then emphasizing that:

“The opponent criticized some decisions at the end of the game. However, shortly before the possession they criticized, there were other decisions that could be evaluated and criticized differently by both teams. Also, if you remember, in last year’s playoffs there were decisions at the end of games that could be the subject of discussion.

I don’t think it’s right that the entire result should be characterized by one possession or referee decision. Of course, referees are a part of basketball, everyone can seek justice in case they feel wronged. The competent authorities will carry out the necessary assessments on the matter. Apart from that, I congratulate our team and Olympiakos, they played a good game. I think we will see good games and then new stories will emerge.”