THE PAOK confronts her Malme on Tuesday (06/08) in the first match for the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League and the Razvan Lucescu he mentioned, among other things, in the press conference the motivation of the qualification, the way the Swedes play, Tisundali-Chalov and Samata.
What he said in detail:
On whether he will be worried if the qualification comes with bad performances: “It depends what you mean by bad. If we have set some standards, we don’t catch them and get the qualification, the qualification will count. Each time we set a goal. In the first two matches, PAOK aimed to play to qualify and succeeded. In order to level up, we need to have more intensity and it’s not easy to find that as the group is constantly changing due to transfers.”
On the differences between the team that ended last season and the one that starts the new one: “There is no question of comparison. The team that finished the season played 59 games while this season just started. If you expected us to win the games against Banja Luka 5-0, that’s your problem. But the opponent was a champion team, who knew how to take things from moments in matches. The point is that we won two games, in the second game we didn’t concede any phases. In two matches, the team showed that it has the means to win.”
As for whether the draw of the next phase is an extra incentive: “For me there is a match tomorrow and one in a week. We don’t care about anything else. The only motivation is to play Malmö. What more motivation could I want beyond that of qualification?”
On Malmö’s style of play: “It will be a difficult match. Malmö are born to attack and fill the opposing area with players. But it is not only the style of play but also how we will organize our game, we should confuse them. In football, the team that is focused, to manage the situations, will have faith, will get what they want. And we are talking about two matches and the match in Tuba will not be easy for Malmö”.
On the presence of Tisundali-Chalov in the mission so early: “The games will show what the management of the footballers will be. It’s only the second time it’s happened in my career. A few days before the games to make a change to the list. It happened one more time in Saudi Arabia with Kariyo. I felt too much pressure and I feel sorry for what happened to Samata. He gave us so much last year. He helped us a lot to win the championship and also to score 140 goals. I don’t remember players helping the team so much in scoring, with pressure, with runs, with a lot of work in the blocking area. And I’ll say again that I’m sorry and I’m grateful.”
Source: Sport Fm
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