Demis for Ethniki: “Disqualification based on opponents is a failure – We must not dismantle what has been built”

THE National team he failed to make it in Tbilisi after bowing out on penalties to Georgia and will not take part in the upcoming Euros in Germany.

THE Demis Nikolaidis commented on the exclusion of the “blue and white” saying that it was not unfair and called it a failure based on the opponents. In fact, he claimed that he expected more risks from his total Gustavo Pogetwhile he emphasized that it seemed that the stress took over the National team during the 120 minutes.

“The disqualification was not unfair, I expected us to risk more and not reach the penalties. In penalties, they are crown-letters, penalties are few and in favor of the weak. I don’t know if Poget wanted the match to go to penalties, there was anxiety. I think we entered with the logic of not underestimating Georgia, they didn’t underestimate it. They were careful enough, two phases of Georgia were made by our mistakes and not by the opponent’s play. We attacked with a few people, with crosses where only Ioannidis was in the area, we played restrained”originally commented.

For the penalty shootout: “We made 4 mandatory changes. To get it make some changes, however the changes can reduce the skillful penalty kickers. We lost a good performer for example, Ioannidis who came out maybe due to fatigue. Bakaseta’s execution was good, but the goalkeeper’s save was better. I will not judge the procedure of penalties, more important are the 120 minutes before, we were overwhelmed by anxiety”.

“There is unity among the players, but also great sadness. Poget is credited with building a good group. It’s a failure that we didn’t pass, but it’s another one and another. Failure is because of the opponents we played. We have to decide as a country, based on the characteristics of our players, what kind of football we should play. We must not dismantle what has been built, the players go to the National Team and are happy about it”he said among other things about the next day in Greece.