Almeida: “The worst game since the day I came to AEK – I won’t sleep today”

As the worst of his days, he described it at the press conference Matias Almeida her appearance AEK in “G. Karaiskakis”, in the defeat (2-0) by Olympic.

“If I have to speak my heart, I’m not happy waiting for another opponent to “help” us with the result. We had a chance to finish it. As long as there is mathematical hope they will fight it. There are times when teams should not forgive“, also noted the technician of “Enos”, who even stated characteristically that he will not sleep tonight. At the same time, he regularly analyzed the game with the “red and whites”.

Specifically, what Matias Almeida stated at the press conference, among others:

– about what was to blame for the defeat: “Good Evening. The games AEK played their way were the ones they had the best chance of winning. Today we were not at that level. Olympiacos played well and we didn’t. There are no excuses here. The No. 1 person responsible is me».

about the fact that Olympiacos put a lot of pressure on AEK and if he thinks that he “dressed AEK”: “Your observation is good. Olympiacos and AEK have different systems. Olympiacos pushed high today with their forwards and midfielders. With a line of four that was in a zone. We analyzed these. We had done it in training. That’s football. We had 6 different ways to break the pressure. Sometimes it doesn’t work out. I can’t help but recognize the operation of Olympiakos, but we knew it would be like this».

-if he hopes for the title: “If I have to speak my heart, I’m not happy waiting for another opponent to “help” us with the result. We had a chance to finish it. As long as there is mathematical hope they will fight it. There are times when teams should not forgive. When mistakes are made and you stay first you have a chance. Today in the first half they played badly, but we had phases. If today we could score with Garcia and Eliasson it would be different. Today was the worst game for me in AEK. As I recognize when we play well today I will recognize that we played badly».

-if the rating is fair: “I don’t know what is fair or unfair. Every coach and every player plays to win. If in football you go to grab the ball and a goal is scored it is minus 2 points. To me a striker is to lay the ball and put it in. Statistically no one is a champion. We work hard, analyze the opponents and the Lord above decides. If there was an ultimate success drug, someone would buy it. Through the pain I have I cannot help but recognize that there has always been a Champion a team. So I feel happy for a Greek league to be competitive. And one Greek team, Olympiacos, to be in the final of the Conference. There is improvement. I won’t sleep today».

-the fact that in the end Olympiacos seemed to have more strength (jokingly saying afterwards how “today that you won you can ask other questions”): “You can’t explain everything in football. At least I who have played football, sometimes I wanted them to come out but everything was a mess. Have you ever seen a thief being chased by the police get tired? No. It has to do with the mind. There are no excuses. We lost and we lost the right way».