His own explanation For the results and image of Panathinaikos in his last games the Rui Vitoriain view of tomorrow’s derby with AEK at OAKA, for the 2nd Stoiximan Super League playoffs.
In detail the Portuguese technician’s statements on COSMOTE TV
After defeat by Olympiacos, the game with AEK seems to be critical, it seems to be decisive. Do you have the same impression?
“Critical and important games I think everything is. I can’t distinguish any of this, especially since we are talking about such a “tight” event such as the playoffs, which have six matches with the four presumption of best teams in the league. So the first one passed and we have five more difficult games awaiting us with very strong opponents.
For AEK we can say, having faced this opponent and in the league, that we know that this is a team in a specific style of play, which is trying to maintain as much as possible in the field. This time, however, I want to focus more on our ourselves, we have shown that we can do things very well at many times and create several dangerous situations. But we need to show a lot more concentration than we had in the last game, we should not run the risks, and especially in dangerous zones that cost us dearly.
In this piece we need to show much greater responsibility, concentration and efficiency, consistency in our lines and how we will play. We see that the team manages to create phases, however, the slightest mistake can cost us, as it did in the last race. We have a good and quality team, we have players who can determine the game with their own actions. We know that the opponent also has the same quality players, but we have to go with great confidence in our abilities to do our best and win the match”
Perhaps the most important thing in the playoffs, this is what history has shown in Greece, is when a team does not easily get goals. Your first time in the club, you had a team that difficult the opponent was scoring a goal. But now that has changed. How can you explain this conversation of the team to this part of the game?
“In general, throughout my career, I believed that teams that have good organization, that is, good positions mainly in the defense, are much closer to being able to win races and thus win the championship in which they participate. We what we tried to do from the first moment we were here was exactly that.
To “build” a very good defensive organization and operation of the team and I think we did this to a very great extent. Having some specific players who have competed together for a long time, so that they can get the necessary “chemistry”. A “chemistry” that was unfortunately disturbed by various misfortunes we had with players who were left out for injury or for other reasons, so we had to find others there to replace them. Somewhere in there, we can say that this confidence was lost, this confidence that was inspired by the back. This is the first factor and the second factor is that unfortunately, especially lately, we make many mistakes that are essentially many of them without pressure.
We have the ball on our feet and while we can continue to “build” our attack normally, we make some mistakes that cost us a lot. This, of course, also has its own impact on the psychology of the players and their confidence. Summary, I would say that these two are the main factors. The first to do with the forced changes we made and which influenced the “chemistry” of our defense function, which brought us both the lack of confidence and the second these mistakes we make and which we talked about during this week with the players. We told them that we need to keep the ball more on our feet, to have more confidence in our transfers so that we can keep the zero back and to be able to take advantage of the opportunities we always create.
Even if we have an issue of efficiency near the opposing home, in any case we create some opportunities to score goals and win the games. So it’s a combination of these two factors, so that we can be more likely to win any race. And of course, it goes without saying that we should not start the match in the way we did it with Olympiacos. We must enter with 100% concentration, responsibility and consistency“
Source: Sport Fm
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