Ergin Ataman wanted to set the record straight about what he said in the meeting he had with Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His technician Panathinaikos AKTOR he appeared with… a lot of nerves at the press conference and pointed out that his words were incorrectly reported by a section of the press.
At the same time, he focused on the failure of his team, but also on the performance of some of his players.
“Before I start talking about the game, I want to clear up something that is very important to me. As you know today I visited Erdogan before the meeting with Kyriakos Mitsotakis and one of you said that I answered a question that he asked me why I came to Panathinaikos and I answered to beat Fenerbahce. These are women! We just talked about the friendship between the Greeks and the Turks and the sports culture and the rivalry between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos. Nothing else. I will take legal action against the Media that wrote it.
About the game I will say that we played very well in the first half. Of course, we made some mistakes in the last 2 minutes of the first half. Where we let Hezonia score and Real lead by 1 point. In the second half, however, we missed a lot of free kicks. In the pick and roll we were prepared, but we couldn’t go to the racket because of Tavares and against a “machine” like Real you can’t do it. And they won justly”he initially emphasized.
On what Panathinaikos needs to beat Real: “We had prepared for Real’s defense and Tavares. But we were very wrong. Vildoza, let’s say, had 0/5 three-pointers. I’m not saying he didn’t play well, because he played 32 minutes. Grigonis was also wrong. And we in “3” against Hezonia and Dek only had Grigonis”.
On whether other players should enter the rotation: “If you are referring to players without much experience like Moraitis, Kalaitzakis and Mantzoukas? We can’t beat Real with them. These players need to earn their trust and time from the Greek league. The performance of the rest of the players was not good and that’s how we lost the game.”
Source: Sport Fm
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