Verbic: “It was a penalty – We deserved to win”

Unfair for him Panathinaikos considers the result to derby with AEK (2-2) The Benjamin Verbich referring both to his team’s performance and to the phase of his overthrow by Pinedas.

“The big games are always special, with a lot of tension, with people shouting from the stands, a lot of VAR checks, we all know how important three points are. We wanted to win, we were better I think and we deserved to win. But that’s how football is, we take the one point and move on to the next games“, he initially reported.

As for the controversial phase of the penalty requested by the “greens”the Slovenian midfielder emphasized: “When I got the ball, I dribbled and felt the contact with Pineda. I was sure that the referee would at least check the phase in VAR. But he didn’t. I don’t know what the rules are yet, sometimes they check it, sometimes they don’t. I’m not the referee, but for me it was a penalty».

Finally, about the change that he sees with him Fatih Terim on the bench he said:I think you saw how we wanted to win. We ran throughout the game and it’s hard to do that against AEK who are a team with a lot of intensity. We did it if not to a better degree, at least to the same one. We showed a very good face against one of the best teams in the league. It is still the beginning with Mr. Terim and in the next period we will be better by implementing his ideas even better».