Medilibar: “The goal is not to have a wardrobe with clothes you don’t need” – What he said about Unas

THE Olympic stood up well for sixty minutes in France, but two defensive lapses were enough for Lyon to punish him (2-0) in their opener League Phase of Europa League.

After the match, Jose Luis Mendiliber he admitted the superiority of the home team and expressed his opinion that despite the system change his team’s game concept had not changed.

At the same time, he referred to the transfer planning and emphasized how “the point is not to have a wardrobe with clothes you don’t need”while commenting on the impending acquisition of Adam Unas.

What he said in detail:

What was missing from Olympiakos today apart from the goal? And also, there were periods when Olympiacos seemed to show a speed behind Lyon. Do you agree with this?

Yes it is true. Lyon were better than us. He put too much pressure on us. It was the game that we have defended so much in our region. It brought us down a lot in our area. We tried all this time to get ahead, but we didn’t succeed. The opponent shut us down and shut us down in our area. What was left for us to defend. We lacked aggression and going even higher.

On September 4, Olympiacos had declared the list and there was still one vacant place for the European list. There was a feeling that you didn’t want another player, considering the roster to be satisfactory numerically. What happened in this period of 20 days and Olympiacos acquires Adam Unas?

Rosters are made by design, with a lot of thought and not recklessly. We tried to build a roster full of players that would complement the team and have the young players that everyone says deserve a place in Europe. We thought we should have space to have these players. The goal is not to have a wardrobe with clothes you don’t need and for this reason we believed that we had to have space for young children as well.

You made the parallel about the wardrobe and the clothes then as well. But we ask you what intervened in the end and does Olympiacos bring Unas?

That a new player is coming, obviously you know something more.

The fact that you changed your tactics and played more defensively, did you come here to be more careful at the back?

It is true that we also played with two strikers. We changed the design, but not our concept. We wanted to build a team that could attack with the help of the two full backs. The opponent pressed us. So we had trained during the week and tried to attack. In the opportunities we created, we failed to score. Therefore the opponent took advantage of the opportunities more than us. Throughout the game Lyon were better than us and had more chances.