PAOK was defeated by Olympiakos 2-1 at “Georgios Karaiskakis” and missed the chance to be within a shot of the top.
The people of the “double-headed north” were furious about the arbitration, with him Razvan Lucescu to repeat this in the press conference, saying that two big mistakes decided the match.
What the Romanian coach of PAOK said in detail:
His explanation for the defeat after the games in Europe: As for the games against Brugge, they were a better team. You know how we were not in the best condition because of the infection we had. I consider how the game was decided by 2nd errors. From a penalty that watching European football is not given. The other goal was preceded by a foul on Sastre where we could have threatened more. Congratulations to Olympiakos for qualifying, which is good for Greek football. We ran at a high tempo. It wasn’t a spectacular game and if it weren’t for those mistakes we could have claimed something more.
The opponent: Olympiacos had more energy. He had some finals above. Some mistakes we made led Olympiakos to offensive transitions. We can’t say for example how Ibora is a 2nd line player. The match did not have many finals from the 2 teams. I also remember the phase when the assistant made a mistake when the ball had gone out and there was an opportunity for Olympiakos. With all due respect to Greek football, I don’t think it was a penalty. Possibly Olympiacos was at 60-40.
The title: I wouldn’t say there is a favorite. There are 4 favorites. For us, the match against Lamia is coming, where we must win. It is an important game in the time series we have because from these games in Europe and with Olympiakos we lost our confidence.
The balls on the back of the PAOK defense: There is mental fatigue for defenders. There is also the offside rule. It is a matter of mental fatigue. There is a match with Lamia coming up where we will have to die on the field. And today we won a lot of balls but we didn’t have the right reaction and movement.
Whether his players were psychologically empty after Bruges: I already answered that. Yes it affected them. And this game coming for us needs a reaction. They are situations that affect you. In the last 10 days and after the game with AEK, things are not going well for us. And today we had players affected by the virus.
Source: Sport Fm
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