His own comment on the AEK-Panathinaikos (3-0) did o Demis Nikolaidis.
The veteran ace praised the appearance of the “Union”, stressing that in the last two years we have never seen such a big difference in a derby between two teams.
Complete, not, that the “yellow and black” made the most impressive appearance in a derby in the year and a half of Matias Almeida.
“Perhaps Almeida’s best derby. We have not seen in any derby in the last two years such a big difference in a derby between two teams.
I don’t know if you know (sb joking), I’m AEK and we had a secret hope that at some point, the playoffs can’t end like this, at some point we’ll see what we saw yesterday. Now he would be with Panathinaikos, he would be with someone else…
Okay, there was a big difference. I did not expect Panathinaikos to be so unprepared to face AEK. I didn’t expect that. I have said many times that what Terim has given to Panathinaikos is more intensity in his game, running, psychology, mentality. Here, however, he went and ran into AEK, which in this part after all, we saw it yesterday, it’s a team you can’t beat. He raised the tension so much that even Panathinaikos, who had managed to have a lot of tension with Terim, yesterday seemed to be a click down.
Bernard is a big loss for Panathinaikos, but I don’t think he played such an important role judging the whole game. It was not a match decided by the performance of one or two footballers. Tell me there aren’t matches that are won by one or two footballers? There are. Everyone from AEK yesterday was good. You can’t say the same about Panathinaikos“, he initially reported.
Referring to his choices Fatih Terimunderlined: “We saw many times that Akaidin was close to Pineda. This is not normal. In other words, sometimes a football player is exposed and he doesn’t deserve it. In other words, you can’t have Akaidin catch Pineda. He is a player to catch Levia, for example, who did admirably in the previous match on the Avenue. In general, the changes were few, I don’t know what he had in mind (including Fatih Terim), he turned it into a diamond, he also took out passers, he didn’t have a winger. Maybe he too understood that the match was very difficult and wanted to do something».
While for whether o Matias Almeida he had worked all this out in his mind the previous time, to find the momentum where he wants it, he commented: “Then we would talk about a magician, I don’t think there is a magician in football. No, this is something he’s been working on since the time he came. That’s his mindset. And he prepared the team mentally for this match and that’s what we see. This has nothing to do with fitness in my opinion. It’s about how the teams came in, who was more ready to hit the game. There are other things at work here. And AEK was much more ready than Panathinaikos in this particular match».
Afterwards, he was asked on whether AEK already took it: “Not yet, but he’s taken a huge step. If he loses in PAOK, we will go back to the same denominator. If Panathinaikos wins, it will be back to one point. He didn’t get it yet. With a victory in Toumba, he has taken it. AEK is tied with Panathinaikos and Olympiakos. No matter what happens, AEK and PAOK will not draw. AEK will go to Toumba, as they do in all matches, to win and to celebrate the championship. The victory and the very good performance against Panathinaikos will have preceded it».
For the phase he is asking for penalty kick Panathinaikos reported:If you ask me—again, my position is that one never knows— yesterday’s AEK did not lose points, because it played the most imposing derby in Almeida’s year and a half».
Source: Sport Fm
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