Terim: “I want to see a team that doesn’t give up – We want victory with PAOK”

“There are 27 points still available. We want the victory with PAOK”… In this way, Fatih Terim set the goal of Panathinaikos in Sunday’s match for the 2nd game of the playoffs, pointing out that his overall goal is to create a team that will not give up and make its fans happy.

Read Fatih Terim’s statements on Cosmote TV

-For PAOK and the importance of the match for Panathinaikos:

We know PAOK very well, as he also knows us. This is a game that will be played on our own ground, with the fans on our side. First of all we want to play a good match and win. PAOK is a very good team, but we also have our goals. As I said before the match against Olympiakos, there are 30 points available, now there are 27 available. We want to win both the titles we are claiming. I want to see a team that doesn’t give up, that puts up “battles” on the field and does its best to make its friends happy, that everyone makes Panathinaikos proud.

-For the tracks he worked on with his team during the downtime:



The truth is that we didn’t have too many players at our disposal, but with the ones we had, we did the appropriate preparation. There was also a long break in the championship, it is true. We faced the second team of the club in a friendly training match. We have to be very careful in returning players from the National teams, as there is a big gap. Due to the many absences, we tried to “regulate” the training sessions in such a way, in order for them to be efficient. We had to, as I pointed out, be careful at this point in the season. Of course, it is not the easiest thing to keep the pace of training where it should be with so many absences and bearing in mind the tension we have to manage at this point in time. So we tried to pay attention to the players and at the same time pass some things that need improvement.