Mendilibar: “I had to have a basic Yazitsi – our job to find solutions and against such defenses”

Olympiacos found them dark against Asteras Aktor, but eventually managed to win 2-0, thanks to two goals in the delays!

After the end of the match and during the press conference, the Jose Luis Mendilibar He stressed that he should have chosen Yazitsi for his basic eleven, adding that his team’s job is to find solutions and against the teams that are lined up with the intention of defending themselves massively.

In detail what the Olympic coach said:



About how he feels a coach who puts a player in a match in a match and gives him the match: “I see it otherwise, that I should have put him in basic. To have played from the beginning ».

How he feels that this player is Yazitsi who was injured last year in the game with Astera: “It is true nine months ago he was injured at the Astera stadium. Today he proved that he is the player who should be in the game because he has all the conditions to open it. “.

For a scenario with the closed defenses that is repeated and whether it has something different in your mind for these games: “It will not be easy when you play with teams that have such closed defense. Opposite us we have 11 players who are very closed and it will not be easy to find the solution. We found the solution with Yazitsi’s goal. The game could stay 0-0 and now be different. Our job is to find solutions to these defenses. “.