Clearly irritated with the arbitration, he was at the press conference Jose Luis Mendiliber after Olympiakos’ match against Barcelona, throwing… nails at referee Sneijder.
The Basque coach analyzed the phases where Olympiacos protested, being quite expressive with his hand movements.
In detail what Mendiliber said:
You said before the match that you get less irritated now, did you get more irritated tonight with the referee?
“You all saw it because I got irritated, when we entered the game someone took us out of it without us having done anything wrong, someone else made mistakes on the field.”
Obviously you’re talking about the referee, how much was the team affected by those mistakes?
“From being in the game and 2-0 down to making it 2-1 to make life difficult for Barcelona, to being completely out of the game. We can’t understand the decisions, maybe from 2-1 the score could have been different and whoever is watching now the 6-1 is what remains in history and no one will know what happened in this match”?
Did you speak to the referee at all at the end of the match?
“I didn’t want to speak to the referee, I spoke to the 4th who had a good attitude. No matter how much you talk to him, it doesn’t matter as long as you don’t talk to the first one, but I didn’t want him to make a wrong decision with me. Ese’s red card was a crazy decision, while in the penalty phase, Tzolakis has collected his hands so as not to find the opponent and a penalty was awarded”.
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Source: Sport Fm
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