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At a time when in football -not only in Greece- the “project” tends to become an unknown word for coaches, who are more consumable than ever and “burn out” in a span of months, as he commented the day before yesterday Pep Guardiola on the occasion of the dismissal of Frankie Lampard from Chelsea, the Pedro Martins is evolving to become one of the most effective project managers. He’s preparing to blow out a third candle as Olympiacos coach (turning 3 in April) and preparing to lift another championship, or at least this message he’s sending now that he’s taking his team to +12 from 2nd Mars. and +14 and +15 from PAOK and AEK. The derby with PAOK in Karaiskaki was a match, a clear reflection of all that a team gains when it works for a long time with the same coach.
Between two teams whose coaches were well prepared, who each had their own period of good performance and excellence, who had almost the same number of finishing efforts and opportunities of almost the same quality, one team scored three goals and set a festive tone. their victory and the other one was at 0. “They had their own good interval, for about 30 minutes in the first half, they had their chances but they were not effective”, as Pedro Martins said at the end of the PAOK of the race. And indeed, on the first reading one finds that the difference was made by the quality of El Arabi and Sa. However, this reading is unfair with the quality of Olympiakos’ performance, or rather with all the elements contained in the performance of a team that has continuity and that is why it has matured so much that it manages game situations very effectively in whatever level, his performance on the offensive side.
When analyzing the performance of the two teams, the observer finds that PAOK did the same good things in its development. In fact, during the second half, he developed more dangerous attacks (26) than Olympiakos (14) and only had one less final effort (4) than his opponent (5). And why did he lose 3-0? For two reasons:
- Due to not having the same duration in concentration, as a result he made mistakes that were punished by Olympiacos: on the first goal he allowed Embilas to make a free long pass to Fortounis and his defense could not keep up with the pace developed by Olympiacos in the final stage of his attack as a result of which he saw El Arabi execute without being disturbed. In the second goal (Tzolis) he lost the ball because he was not concentrated enough to face the intense and very active defense of Olympiacos (Vrousai) with the consequence of losing the ball and disorganized defensively. In the third, El Kantouri passed, being in his own half of the field, his head blurred, Embila cut and PAOK conceded another goal because they failed to organize defensively. Olympiakos took advantage of these three errors and punished them because in general he was more focused, more solid, calmer both in the possession phase and in the defense phase.
- Because there is more quality in the Olympiacos squad. This quality was brought out by Embila, Fortounis, Bouhalakis, El Arabi in the first goal phase, Brousai (the one who annoys Jolis), El Arabi, Kamara in the second goal phase, Ambila, El Arabi, Vrousai in the third goal phase. goal. This quality put Sa on the field in each of her rebounds.
The final marker does not harm PAOK. Perhaps it is unfair with his effort and the preparation that Pablo García had done, who chose a very interesting strategy and put his team with a very aggressive attitude in the first 20 ‘+ minutes on the field, thus causing problems for Olympiakos. But she tells him the truth about the stage she is in. With García, PAOK has not completed 3 months. Therefore, it would not be natural for your own team to be equally mature and willing to carry out the match plan of its coach against a team that turns 3 years with the same coach, who selects the players or at least their characteristics. Players who acquire and make, in a dynamic process, a synthesis of data to align on the field a team whose game identity is different and remains unaltered both in good and bad days. In another game, Olympiakos, for better or for worse, followed in his footsteps, displaying the same and now recognizable patterns of attack development, presented the positional play repertoire he has been performing for three years, changed his growth rate comfortably, performed in a coordinated manner the plan in its defensive function. And this happens to whoever the eleven are on the field. And this is your coach’s team.
Regardless of people’s choices or the positions in which he placed them on the field, Garcia came out of the Karaiskakis field defeated not because he did not work well or because he did not prepare well, but because he had a higher level team. against him; has been creating for about three years one of the best coaches (the best in my mind) that have gone through the Greek championship.
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