Mendiliber: “Let’s play a complete game – Everything can be done until the end”

Tomorrow at 22:00 Olympiacos will play against Maccabi Tel Avivfor the rematch of his “16”. European Conference League.

THE Jose Luis Mendilibar he spoke at the usual press conference ahead of the match and emphasized that his team must believe in themselves again and get a good result.

The statements of the Basque technician in detail:

On whether miracles happen: “This is a miracle, it could happen. We have to compensate ourselves for these two bad results, give a nice answer and close this cycle. Let’s be satisfied with ourselves tomorrow, let’s get a good result.”

About the plan and whether he will take a risk: “The only thing we shouldn’t do is go crazy and start the match in a hurry. In the previous match it was 0-0 until the 30th minute and within a few minutes we conceded a goal. Let’s make a complete game. Everything can be done until the end. Let’s be rational, but we also have to take risks.”

On whether he learned lessons from these two matches: “There are certainly lessons to be learned, when I came the most important was this match with PAOK, we beat them and the matches with Ferentsvaras and we qualified, all while playing well. Then maybe we rested that everything was fixed. This is the lesson, we have to start working again.”

For the psychological part: “The damage is much more psychological, it hurt us because we began to doubt what we can achieve. I talked a lot with the players, I told them to believe in their value, that they are better or equal to the opponent, to believe in ourselves again, and not to think that because something went wrong, everything was lost.”

For what he wants to see better: “It is a difficult situation, I want the team to give everything and play the best they can. If he does that then we have a chance to win and maybe qualify.”

For K19: “They are guys I know, I have seen many of them in the second team as well, I want to congratulate them and wish them good success.”

On whether he sees the match as a restart: “Of course we see it this way, we want to make a good start in view of the playoffs, so that we have hopes of winning the championship as well. In football there are no fixed results, there are wins, losses, setbacks. For us it was a setback, to come back and continue in the playoffs with the aim of winning the championship”.