Lucescu: “We have goals to achieve”

Without in any way underestimating Boracay Banja Luka, Razvan Lucescu highlighted the importance of the week’s work done by PAOK after the first match against the Bosnians for his second qualifying round Champions League.

“A champion is a champion, to have achieved this means that he has a winning mentality. When you face such a team if you are not at 100% of your present phase then there is a risk that things will not go the way you want them to“, said the coach of “Dikefalus tou Vorras”, among other things.

Details of what the Romanian coach said about the Bania Luka-PAOK game

For what different we can expect in the repeater: “We are waiting for the qualification. Obviously it won’t be an easy game, but a battle. In any case, with the end of the game, we are waiting for the qualification, knowing that it will not be something easy. We know very well what happened last week. The game was judged by us both positively and negatively. We scored three goals, but we also gave two goals away as a gift.

I don’t like to discuss these things, but I should mention that the penalty awarded was a huge mistake by the referee and the second goal was offside. If we want to make a summary of the answer to your question we expect an absolute concentration from the players. To show the work we did this week that has intervened and from then on every player should be ready to fight”.

For the week that has passed and the work done: “A week is a week. In any case though, a transfer is different to be 5 or 2 or 1 week with the team. Possibly it is even better in some cases to have quality footballers who will come in the last 40 minutes of the game, in combination with the fatigue that the opponent may have and his performance has dropped. To take advantage of that and with the unity that exists is an element that we can take into account for this particular game.”

If the first game helped the team “land”: “Last week we managed to achieve a victory, the importance of which we must not let pass like this. What I said that we throw is something completely different, it looks completely different to each football player. We have things in front of us that we have to achieve and we should realize the effort that we have to make for them, but without forgetting the victory that we achieved and that gives us the lead for the qualification”.

How much better he now knows the opponent and whether he was surprised by anything in Banja Luka: “A champion is a champion, to have succeeded means that he has a winning mentality. When you face such a team if you are not at 100% of your current phase then there is a risk that things will not go the way you want them to. I don’t believe there is anything I know or don’t know about the opponent. Or something I learned better. At this level obviously everyone knows their opponents. What is of great importance is the concentration we must have, the work we must do on the field, with the necessary humility to achieve our goal.”

For Tisundali, Soretire and Chalov: “I don’t want to talk about transfers or anything else, we have a game tomorrow.”