Terim: “I’m only worried that we lose points too easily, we can’t do anything about individual mistakes”

New fun for him Panathinaikos in Leoforo, after the draw with Lamia (2-2), the “greens” stayed at “X” and with Kifissia (1-1), as part of the 24th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.

Speaking at the press conference after the end of the match, the “clover” coach, Fatih Terim, expressed his disappointment with the result, stressing among other things that the only thing that what worries him is that the team is losing pointssince nothing else can be done about individual errors, other than to reduce them through concentration.

What Fatih Terim said in detail:

For the losses in the two games with Lamia, Kifisia, although it preceded: “We’ve talked about Lamia. For today, in the first half and until the red card, we had no problem. We were in control of the game, we miss chances, we score but it is disallowed for offside. We had no problem. At a point where there was no reason to accept a red, we accepted it and then it was an own goal. For a team that dominates their game all the time, being one player down and then conceding an own goal is difficult. Psychology falls. That’s why we made a change and put a stopper. Then we wanted to score as well and not lose points, but we were unfortunately outnumbered. Despite everything, we found some opportunities, Fotis and Alex and the other players, but of course we also gave many opportunities. We had to make some changes. Here Philip plays all the time, he doesn’t find any time to rest. I forced him out and put in Vilena. As you know Juancar is injured. I am very upset, in a game that we dominated. We could lose. Unfortunately with Lamia and this, we gave away the points while we were winning. But we will fix it. We have to be a little more careful.”

On how Panathinaikos can come back after the two consecutive shocking results: “First of all, we are waiting for the injured to return, and secondly, these things exist in football. Whoever I asked while we were 1-0 up, nobody expected us to drop points. Everyone was waiting for us to put more. That’s how football is, in an instant everything changes and you’re left with one less player. Everything that happened, and with the delays on the field, was against us. Nevertheless, my players chased the victory. Everyone can lose points. But the time has come for us to be much more efficient. In the end we haven’t lost anything yet, we will be able to handle everything with our own hands and bring it as we want.”

How worried he is about the second loss in a row ahead of the playoffs and derbies: “What worries me is that we lose points very easily. There is nothing else for me to worry about as a team. What we should be upset about is losing points for no reason. There is nothing we can do about individual mistakes. It’s of the moment. We must bring individual errors to a minimum. The playoffs will be very different, but we lose the advantages we have. Of course we are very sad, but I believe in my players that we will put up the necessary battles.”

Regarding the positions of Bakaseta and Ioannidis, even if they are confused about where they are playing, and even if Mladenovic’s crosses were missing in the final: “Fotis and Bakasetas are very important players. Fotis puts something extra into every match. He’s been out for a long time. Because of his game, sometimes they get close. This is not what we need to discuss now. Our other players are also in good quality. For Philip I want to say, I should have taken him out earlier, but other things happened that we hadn’t thought of. Bakasetas also got a yellow card and he hadn’t rested at all (Mladenovic). Despite all that, I put in two left-footers, Aitor and Vilena. It is true that Mladenovic makes very good crosses, but he got too tired. At least for 10 minutes I wanted to put on Tony who can also cross. Of course, Philip is very important for the game we want, but we had to make the change”.