Dimitris Kravaritis emphasized that the plan of Olympiakos against Alimos was to play zone defenses in the third and fourth periods in order to go on the counter, he asked for an improvement in the final pass, while he praised the performance of Alimos and the energy that some of the ” red and white” strips.
In detail: “Our plan was this, to put a lot of pressure in the first eight minutes on defense and to risk some expulsions, which we did accept. From there, in the third and fourth period we played mixed defenses and zones, with the aim of going on the counter because we have several girls who have very good and innate talent in this part.
That’s how we got away with three goals. We may have won today but I didn’t like our attacking approach at the start to the player above. We’ve highlighted this before, but we didn’t. We didn’t have good decisions, good final passes and we have to improve that.
From there, Alimos was very different from the first game, he came in very strong. The energy of some of our girls gave us the win. It’s the first win in the Champions League, we started with ‘three points’. We will continue to work so that we can be better in the rest of the season.”
Christina Ciouti added: “We have been preparing for this match for several days. We didn’t come in as we would have liked, nor did we play as we had planned. Nevertheless, with some good attacks and some crucial defenses we made, we managed to win the game and start our journey in the Champions League on the ‘right’ side”.
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