Mendiliber: “Let’s reduce the gap with PAOK – Valverde spoke to me about Toumba”

The three point that will bring him closer to the top is looking for Olympic against the PAOK and that will be his only goal in the Toumba game, according to him Jose Luis Mendilibar.

At the same time, the Spanish coach emphasized that he has already been informed about the atmosphere he will encounter at the Thessaloniki stadium, saying that he was told about it by Ernesto Valverdebefore coming to Greece and the “red and whites”.

“We have the same philosophy in all the games and that is not going to change because we are playing the first team in the standings. We know that PAOK-Olympiakos is one of the biggest games in Greece. They are first and we are fourth, so all we have to do is play well and win to close the gap. The only thing on our mind is victory”he initially said about Sunday’s match.

He was then asked about the Toumba atmosphere: “Before I came, I spoke with Ernesto Valverde and when I told him that the first league game is in Toumba against PAOK, he told me that I will very quickly have the opportunity to understand what it means to play a big game in the Greek league. I know that PAOK has a very strong atmosphere in derbies and I expect them to be against us. We saw the Cup game with Panathinaikos and understood that the stadium and the atmosphere are not important, it is important inside the playing field, you have to concentrate on the game”.