Vitoria: “Our seat gives us confidence – we worked in the static phase sector”

“The truth is that with or without victories in the previous matches, each opponent in this process has his own particularities. It will be a very difficult game, as we are talking about the four best teams in the league. What they have proven is very strong and each of them has its own positive elements. On our side, we will fight at our headquarters, which gives us very confidence, a very great power, because we are close to our fans who support us.

PAOK is a good team, it has a long time the same coach and they have a strong bond with him. They have good and quality footballers, some specific offensive moves that they are trying to accomplish in every game with great success. That is, even if you know exactly how the opponent is playing, his quality is the one that sometimes makes it very difficult to manage.

However, I think in any case we will be ready, we feel very good after our last victory. We know what we want, we want the victory that will bring us closer to our goals, always respecting the opponent. I think the job we did during the week was enough good, having the most players at our disposal. We worked on the pieces we wanted to work during these days and I think we are well prepared for this race. ”

PAOK, as well as AEK, are two teams capable of static phase game. Since we saw the team not having the ideal treatment in this area, is it something you focused on the week? Secondly, in the match of the championship with PAOK at OAKA, you were the team that kept the ball on its feet and tried to create. Do you have something similar in your mind?

“As for the static phase, it is definitely an area we worked on during the week. Of course, all the other phases of the game, all that we think can give us at least a little advantage to be able to be closer to victory. In general, what I want to say in terms of static phases is that first, in the offensive sector it is a little strange that under statistics we are the team that we should normally have scored more goals than we have achieved. Since the expected goals from such aggressive phases, they are not in line with what we have actually scored.

It is also a piece that we have to work for, that is, the effectiveness of our aggressive static. Now in terms of defensive static phases, what we can say is that in general there are two ways in which you can defend yourself. Whether with man to man or belt, each coach and based on the characteristics of his players chooses which of the two ways he thinks he is better for his team. The only sure thing is that whatever way you choose, there will always be some places where you will be more vulnerable.

And these are the points where you obviously have to work even more. Of course, we must not forget that the opponent sees how you defend, so he knows which zones you are more vulnerable and who should “hit” mainly. We are essentially talking about a continuous game in which you are trying to predict the opponent will attack you and he will try to do just the opposite.

It is there that you are trying to correct some points where you are vulnerable. It is a part that we worked hard this week and we think we will do much better in this match against PAOK which really has very good static phases and in terms of their variety, either close, directly, or with the individual quality of the players that can be claimed.

As for the previous game with PAOK, what I want to say is that each match has its own story and this story can change even during the game itself. If we remember well in our first game in the playoffs we started being very early in the score, which is completely changing the match data.

In any case, what we need to do and should always have in mind is that we must be ourselves. We need to have the specific racing identity that we have built all the past. With a very great ambition for victory, we want to win this race and bring the club closer to the position we believe is worth it.

To be able to do our best for this season. Sometimes things can get us easier, so find and be able to score the goals we want and at other times we get more difficult. In this case we have to find some other ways, some other ways in order to be able to achieve the desired result.