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“Today we are facing a very large team and many times we do our analysis without putting the rival in the equation. Benfica is a team with a very high individual quality and that is something known. We had to close the main corridors to ‘push’ them. We wanted to have more possession of the ball, but we understand very well that today was very difficult because you always have to do it. When we play with a team we have possession of the ball, when we face teams like Benfica our possession is less, we adapt to the game according to the rival and we choose the way we will win.
We knew we would have fewer attacks, but there are other ways to win. There are no perfect systems, everything has strengths and weaknesses and after the game conclusions are drawn. What I have to admit of course is that if this phase were two games it would be more difficult and that is because we played with an excellent team with a very good coach, if not with our best and team play, it gave us victory. “Everyone deserves congratulations.”
On whether the team needs a landing after qualifying for the match against Atromitos:
“To win we have to have a good team and good players. I personally will have the same requirements that they have of me. When they win, not everything is perfect, so we have to find our balance. Today we did the obvious and I really want to see the team’s reaction in Friday’s game against Atromitos ”.
For Jorge Jesús’ comment that if Benfica had been more effective they would have won the game:
“Soccer is magical for that, because any team can beat everyone, even with a small percentage. Being a former player, the start of the season always has its peculiarities. No matter how good players you have, the chemistry of the team is not 100%. It’s been a year now, on one side of the scale we put that Benfica has a better coach, a better squad, more money for transfers, we also had our own pros.
Our plan for victory, field operation and experienced or younger players with the motivation to give their all against Benfica. We needed victory today and in our chances to be effective. If we lose this game, we will be ourselves. From the moment we win, the team is the same and we don’t change our goals. I don’t like living in extreme situations, being the best today and the worst tomorrow. “Soccer is a game and luck plays an important role.”
For Andrija Zivkovic:
“All I can say is that we are all the fruit of our experience. Since I started as a coach I have tried to make the best possible team. I started in the Sporting academies, I have lived very difficult situations and I have often fed them. The players and I always tried to help the first team, the same happened in Braga, with what I had I was trying to build a strong team. and what he says is that he knows a lot about PAOK and even the slogans of the world, that’s why there are good chemistry.
His players were very well received and the only thing I can think of is that he has a bright future in the team. I’m happy that he chose PAOK to continue his career because he had offers from other teams with more money, but he chose to come to PAOK. When you have players of this quality, the coach’s job becomes easier. Good players are the ones who make the difference on the field. He could show more at Benfica, but that also has to do with the team.
Coaches cannot change the rules of the game. The truth is that it has more than two players in each position and they cannot all play together in the same squad. For various reasons that are not present and we do not know what happened, Benfica have many players in the same position, Mr. Jesσουςs decided that he does not have it in his plans and Zivkovic knows that here he will have more opportunities. Even here when he arrived, Zivkovic thought that there are good players and I have to give something more.
Players have to follow rules and that is difficult for me as a coach because some will play and be happy and others will not play and will be sad. If I could, I would put them all, based on the work they have done. It is a bit like in school, there are those who grasp it with the first, those who want to read to grasp it and those who do not grasp it at all. He is happy to have chosen us to continue his career here ”.
On whether he feels that the players have consolidated what he wants from them on the field:
“The coach is the same, he has not changed. What I wanted to see was what you would ask me if we did not win today. There is a great distance between the journalists and the coach and them because I have to predict things, while after the game it is La criticism is very easy, this is my job.
I always try to do, is to make the best decisions. I chose Biseswar with Larissa, today I chose Crespo because his characteristics fit the party. I understand very well that if things did not go well, we would be talking about players who do not play in their place.
A lot of people like football and have an opinion on it, but if someone looks at the team from last year to today, I have changed and adapted a lot. Criticism is important and we love it, I said it yesterday. What I want to happen is that we have to get into the mind of the coach. I watch the game and what it asks of me. I mean, I couldn’t bear to put Diego to mark Everton or Crespo to mark Everton. “During the week I try to check all the data, but in the game there are always unbalanced factors in a game that you can’t count on.”
Now the money coming for Giannoulis is close to its clause and it could go away, what is your opinion?
“In fact, Giannoulis is a key player for us. I will try to persuade the player and Mr. Savvidis to stay with us until the end of the season. If he leaves, it would be impossible to find a player of his quality to replace him and” With all due respect to the players I have worked with, I must emphasize that I have trained several left-backs, but none better than that, and I hope he stays. ”
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