Mediliber: “Maybe we were on our honeymoon and now we have to be very careful”

THE Olympic made one mistake after another in his defense, h Maccabi he took advantage of them, prevailed with an emphatic 4-1 in Karaiskakis and now the “red and whites” are looking for a… miracle in the rematch.

After the match, Jose Luis Mendilibar was clearly disappointed by his team’s performance, stressing that perhaps Olympic they underestimated the Israelis, which showed in the bad start.

At the same time, the Basque coach talked about the upcoming derby with him Panathinaikosbut also for his team’s hopes ahead of the rematch with Maccabi.

In detail what he said about:

What went wrong: “Maybe after the draw we got a little confused even though I was saying how good a team Maccabi would be. So maybe we underestimated her. We started the game badly. Things went very badly for us.

It is a very heavy score and difficult to overturn. Of course you should never think like that. The game was like that. It started very badly. In the first half, the opponent was better than us. We struggled a lot in defense. In the 2nd half we tried hard but despite our chances we didn’t succeed. Things are very difficult for us. Maybe we were on our honeymoon and now we have to be very careful.”

0-2 and the start: “We entered very badly. Our goal was to be very strong. But with the first attack our opponent scored a goal and that disorganized us. Even though at 0-2 we had expectations and even though we reduced that made the opponent to score a third goal and surprise us. We didn’t defend well. We hope this serves as a lesson not only for this game and the next but also for the rest of the game.”

The defense and whether there were individual mistakes: “Even if there were individual mistakes the blame was collective. We had gaps in our lines and they had won the yards. There were also individual mistakes. In general, the team didn’t chase the balls and the whole team didn’t work well defensively.”

Whether he believes more in the Championship or whether he can do the… miracle in Europe: “Hope never dies but obviously we are focusing on Panathinaikos. We will give everything for the victory and to be in the battle for the title. Once we are done there we will go to claim our chances with Maccabi. If we take the steps one by one and start with 1 goal, 2 goals or 3 goals then everything is possible.”