His commentary on the derby PAOK-AEK (3-2) did o Demis Nikolaidis on his NOVA show.
His original analysis:
“Very nice development of PAOK from the left in the 1-0 phase. Then, cAEK was very good for half an hour. dominate 100% on the field, he had two phases for goals, he quickly equalized with an amazing goal from Pineda, who for 2-3 matches is amazing again. He dominated everywhere, in midfield, you couldn’t go against Szymanski or Jonsson, nobody. Eliasson was very good, they were all very good.
PAOK at that point scored the goal and could not face the fast pace of AEK. And where what we see until 30′, AEK’s chances, the match 1-1, you say that AEK is going to score a second one to end the half, PAOK returns to the match. It begins and balances slowly and responds with two phases, both not so long, a header by Koulierakis that Athanasiadis takes out and another very big chance, corresponding to Pinedas, with Schwab’s header. So, PAOK ends a good half. Of course, the match was good in the first half, with few finals for both. AEK in fact for another match in Toumba. Toumba must force AEK to make the fewest finals of all the stadiums.
In the second half, PAOK starts better. Maybe PAOK did this. Sometimes we say “AEK is tired”, etc. No, the opponent is also playing, which is a good team. The pace dropped, without creating phases. But this style of play, you understand that if anyone is favored it is PAOK. AEK will dominate against PAOK when the pace is high and we saw that in the 30 minutes I was talking about. If PAOK can pick up the pace, they will have better chances for the match. In the second half, therefore, the pace dropped. PAOK had more of the ball, it was easier to get outside of AEK’s large area. There were no phases, but AEK never reached PAOK’s area. This pace does not favor her at all. He finds himself leading against, so to speak, the flow of the game. I want to say that the goal did not come after pressure from AEK.
So when you say that, okay, let AEK score the goal, now PAOK has to react again, then PAOK reacts. It doesn’t matter, if you want we can talk about it later, how. A lot of goals come from mistakes, and AEK scored a goal by mistake. And PAOK reacts and manages to turn the game around, because, as I’ve said many times before, when the ball is close to your area or inside it, at some point something can happen and a goal can be scored. And when the ball is in your area, the mistake you make can equal a goal, when it’s far away it can amount to a steal. PAOK came close to the area of AEK and rightly so…».
Afterwards, he also referred to the part of management by Matias Almeidaalso commenting on his outburst in the finale.
“Now I don’t like it, but we will say it. And he (s.s. Almeida) might, if we brought him here, tell us the same thing or explain it better. Because he puts the same lineup as Panathinaikos, I don’t remember Almeida having done this before, at least this year. He fielded exactly the same eleven four days later. It seemed to me, because it was so great was the tension that AEK produced for 30-35 minutes and there was also the previous match who ran too much that he wanted a bit more freshness in the midfielders.
It doesn’t bother me at all, I like that he tries to take the match by putting forwards, because the best defense is offense, the ball must go there. But it didn’t come out. I have the impression that the midfielders of AEK were tired and he might have to make an addition there. Jonson for example. Also, I repeat, that AEK concedes goals whenever the matches in its region end. They are not the team that can keep score. AEK must play forward, that’s what their coach wants. But there is also PAOK who succeeded and closed it“, he noted characteristically.
“When a team does this, it means faith, not luck“, he emphasized about the many times that PAOK has reacted.
Source: Sport Fm
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