Mendilibar: “The cup will be on the same stadium, but the match and the opponent will be different”

The fact that the Olympic It is a team that is struggling, fighting and hard to defeat wanted to mark at the press conference after the win over Panathinaic (0-1) the Jose Luis Mendilibar.

At the same time, the Basque technician stressed that even when he is worse he should fight to keep the opponent at zero and improve in the match to win.

In terms of Cup finalhe said that the stadium may be the same, but he is expecting a completely different game against a different opponent.

In detail the Mendilibar Press Conference:

-Is Olympiacos in the habit or is the metal the team has?

“It is true that in the first half we were not good and the opponent was better than us and we managed to keep the match 0-0, waiting to improve in the second half and win. What we do is that we are struggling, the team that is struggling is difficult to lose, so what we know to do is fight and withstand the difficult times when we are not good and take advantage of the opportunities that are presented to us. This is what makes us win the games, that we are even fighting in the difficult intervals of the games. “

-In six days Olympiacos has a final on the same stadium, what is the different to expect to see from the team?

“The idea is always the same, to be competitive and to be better than the opponent, but there are times when the opponent is better than you and wins you over. As in this match in the first half, the opponent was better than us and so we had to continue to try and endure until we improved our image. This game, although it will be on the same stadium, will have nothing to do with. We have to wait at that time to see what each team will be and our goal is to follow this idea, if the opponent is better than we can withstand until we improve our image, otherwise we should be better in order to win the game. “

-This was the 16th match of Olympiacos with opponents Panathinaikos, PAOK, AEK with just two defeats, is the key to winning the title that the champion showed that he was better than the other teams?

“In the regular season, things were more balanced and the teams were closer to their differences in the standings. What happened is that in the last two months Olympiacos has won all the matches he had and increased his difference from the others. This is not common, usually the teams share the results and the differences are smaller. But what I say about our team is that when we have to be competitive we do it and we can and we win the important matches to achieve our goal. This is what Olympiacos did, it is not common and won almost all the games in the playoffs and it was the one that made the big difference to the other teams. “