Terim: “I expected the burst when we got behind – Only Bernard could have scored 4-5 goals”

Third win in a row for Panathinaikos who beat Lamia 3-1, with an upset, at “Apostolos Nikolaidis”, for the 5th matchday of the playoffs her Stoiximan Super League.

After the match, Fatih Terim he referred to the value of this result but also to the fact that he does not judge anything at all, he spoke for him Bernardwhile referring to his individual mistake Kotsira that brought the first goal and the need to avoid similar situations in the future.

In detail what he said:

For the value of victory: “Just as we did not lose the championship when we were defeated by PAOK, today we did not reach our goal. We think about each match individually. At the moment our most important match is on Sunday in Lamia. In general, we didn’t have any serious issues throughout the game and those who came here to watch the game saw a good match. We knew that Lamia will be more focused against us, because they haven’t taken a point in the playoffs yet. It was normal that they didn’t want another defeat. I think we learned our lesson in the regular season when we played Lamia and I’m very happy that we worked on it well and got the result we wanted.”

On whether Lamia can become a regulator in the continuation of the championship: “I believe that. Every match starts 0-0. Everyone can lose points, that goes for all teams.”

On his reaction after the 0-1 and whether he expected his team to break out in the second half: “Of course I expected it. The reaction I had on the bench was because we made exactly the same mistake with AEK. In such matches if we go ahead, it will be a different game. So it may go to a different result afterwards. Such things break your concentration and confidence a bit. As soon as we find the first goal, we play better, with more confidence. We know that every opponent will be dangerous in counterattacks. A team that attacks with 7-8 players, it is very reasonable to expect this. We are not afraid of that, we know what we are playing. But the ball that we give, that is not allowed”.

Regarding the fact that Panathinaikos conceded the first goal again: “For these types of mistakes, there is no solution, not even in training. Kotsiras had ten options, no one expected him to give such a pass. I haven’t looked at the stats yet, but from what I see we have at least 10 chances today. This is something very good for us. And if I’m not mistaken they only had one shot that went wide in the second half. Today it was important for us to have the ball all the time and to be in the area to make the phases we want. And our fans were very anxious, the game we played was nice and fast. Even when we took a two-goal lead, we looked for more.

Only Bernard could score 4-5 goals. After the Aris fight, because you didn’t ask me, Juricic and Akaidin had some injury issues. Mladenovic had a fever all week. In the last training when Samet and Djurisic came out with us, I put them in the team. Mancini had an ankle issue, he got hit. Even though he was with us in the last practice, I wanted to protect him. And Bart has an injury issue, he hasn’t trained with us for a while. The players are working very well, they are focused. Even those who don’t play work very hard. I keep telling them that I want to give them more time.”