Dimitris Pelikidis emphasized that PAOK qualified clearly with the two victories over Spono, he believes that they analyzed the Swiss team correctly, so that they could face any possible reaction after the first match, he believes that they played well on both sides of the field and “chased” only the victory, he expects them to improve in the future and that he wants to create a team that will do well in the European competitions as well.
In detail: “We got a well-deserved qualification with two wins. We had to manage a back to back game with all that entails both physically and mentally. We knew our opponent would try to react. We analyzed the individual parts of our game yesterday. We knew we had to manage the match and the lead we had, but without falling into the ‘trap’ of the six goal difference we had.
Our aim was to enter the match from the beginning to win it, as we did. We played very well in terms of the match conditions on both sides of the pitch. We got the victory and a well-deserved qualification. We want to create a team with temperament that can also progress in Europe. We played a team that has been competing in the European League for the last few years, but it is young. We had an advantage in the experience part and we built on that to get some things.
The team will get better as time goes on. We proved that this weekend. We are looking forward to the draw and to find out our next opponent, we have a great appetite and desire to go further”.
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