“Let’s celebrate in front of our world”: Tzolakis’… dust about the penalties with Fener and the message for Aston Villa

The penalties with Fenerbahce and his historic “battles”. Olympiakou with Aston Villa.

THE Kostantinos Tzolakis talk to Olympiacos TV for the career night in Istanbul, but also the upcoming matches with the English team for the semi-finals of the Conference League.

“We knew from the beginning that it would be a very difficult game. We knew that with two results we would go through to the next stage after the score of the first match, but we went for the win. The game went to the penalty shootout. There I knew I was ready for the process, we had done the analysis with coach Panagiotis Agrioyiannis and his colleagues. In the meeting we do before every game, the goalkeeper gives his opinion on the penalties and where we think the opposition can take it, just as of course the opposing teams do us scouting.

To Tadic I thought he would do it on the same side that he did on our pitch. We had decided from the beginning about this player that with the personality he has he would not switch sides and luckily I fell right and took the penalty. After his second penalty Inter, who had made several penalties on the left, but also on the right side. It was also a feeling of that moment, I felt it better to fall on my left side and I think I was justified. The last penalty was his Bonucci who has a lot of experience in penalty kicks, he has hit a lot. With the body speed he had at the time, I thought he was going to go left and luckily the ball went the way I fell“, said the Greek goalkeeper and continued:

“What followed in the locker room was… hell, something else. Cheers from the whole team. Players, staff, from the president. Then when we arrived in Athens the people were crazy. We would have liked the qualification to have come to our stadium. But now we have the rematch at our stadium to celebrate another qualification».

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A few days before the first major semi-final of the UEFA Europa Conference League against Aston Villa, one of the great heroes of the qualification with… pic.twitter.com/d5VaqwFlar

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