Lopez: ‘Referees want respect but not all teams respect – VAR drew the lines where it wanted’

Obviously dissatisfied with the arbitration was Angel Lopez in the statements after the defeat of Volos from Atromitos with 2-1.

The Spanish coach referred to the first goal, stressing that the referee of the match, Stefanos Koumbarakis, was not respected the home team, while underlining that “referees want respect, but not all clubs respect each other».

“We started well, scored a goal. VAR put the lines where he wanted, the referee didn’t respect us. In every game the same. With AEK it was a penalty that nobody saw, even AEK didn’t complain. Here with Panathinaikos, the second yellow card to Bernard with the result at 0-0, the referee gave nothing. With PAOK we scored a goal but it was disallowed, the referee admitted to me that it was nothing and the var of that match played us against AEK.

Referees want respect but not all clubs respect. I don’t understand then why the top six clubs don’t play each other in the league and let the rest of us play each other. In stoppage time, Sielis stayed on the ground for two minutes but the referee blew the whistle for the end in the 7th minute, he didn’t take extra time. They know very well what they are doing…».

As for transfers: “For the last 2 months we have been playing every three days. We need players, we have 15-16 players, we have no other players. We need players, we are waiting for transfers»