Lucescu: “Maybe there’s a feeling that… we’re still flying – We’ll be ready when we have to”

The opinion that the PAOK he will present himself ready for the official matches, Razvan Lucescu expressed afterwards the friendly defeat from Fitese.

“What we wanted was for 90% of the team’s players to get 90 minutes on their feet and that’s why we played two friendlies. I think we will be ready when we have to in view of the official obligations. We had some players who missed training due to problems. We tried to prepare well“, initially stressed the Romanian coach ahead of the matches with Bania or Egnatia in the Champions League qualifiers.

Then he said about the preparation of PAOK:We did our training here, the games are a chance to wake up, maybe there is a feeling that we are still flying. If you don’t have the mental part right, you can concede goals. We have had talks with the players, we will do so now. It is true that we have ten days until the first official match, Kenziora has now entered, Constantelias has four days training, Zivkovic will enter the team upon his return».

On whether there is a trunk in the group: “We must be ready, we are taught to sacrifice in the official, but we must be humble, work 100%, always be ready to react. As I said before, through friendly we understand the difference and that the mind is not at the top level. The players who were here are the ones who have contributed but we have to be even higher. There are players who have come now and are still far from what we want».

On the fact that he has Kamara and not Meite: “It’s not just this change, Marcos Antonio, Jimas, Meite also left. The whole team has changes, players come from the second team and the whole level drops in this period. When you don’t have Constantelia, Kenziora, Andria, the quality has dropped this season. If we analyze one by one, we can see that we don’t have Meite and we have Kamara. They don’t have the same characteristics, we need a player like Kamara and a player like Meite, because Schwab and Ozdoev have similar characteristics to Kamara. Meite is another playerher”.