Mendilibar’s words after Olympiacos’ defeat in Tuba: “We lost our own game”

THE Olympic He was defeated by 2-1 by his PAOK In Tuba, losing a match that, as his coach himself admitted, Jose Luis Mendilibar“It was his.”

The Spanish technician saw his team control the pace for 60 minutes, but an individual mistake and the fall of the concentration in the final changed the image of the match.

In the halftime respite, Mendilibar appeared completely satisfied with the performance of his players. Instead of making observations, their praise And he asked them to continue in the same plan. “We don’t change anything. We push properly, we keep our consistency and go to take it“, Were his words in the locker room.

Olympiacos coach gave individual instructions only to two players: to Daniel Pontenseasking him to push higher when the ball passes on the stopper, and to the Julian Bianconwhich he warned to be careful as he had a yellow card and avoid the risky passes.

After the end, the Basque technician was apparently disappointed. He spoke again to his players, stressing that Olympiacos paid his own mistakes: “We lost a game of our own. We did a good first half, but we didn’t finish the match and gave it to the opponent. These mistakes cost“, He said.

In the discussion that followed with his associates, Mendilibar reiterated the view that the defeat is not due to fatiguebut in the lack of concentration in the last 20 minutes. He even stressed that the same problem had appeared in previous games, such as in the Panathinaikos derby.