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In the 15th minute of the game, the image of Olympiacos was heartbreaking. Ball possession 73-27% in favor of City, passes 120-29, final efforts 7-0 and the score at 1-0, with the night starting overnight.
The rojiblancos “picked up” the situation from minute 20 and in the end of the first 45 minutes the picture was better than at the beginning. But again, the presence of Olympiacos in another first half was bad. Very bad. With Piraeus unable to even attack. And the final attempts to close at 11-0!
Olympiacos were unstable, they were not combative, they had no passion, they had no determination, they played as if they were afraid with every play. Many players seemed willing to lose and not play. Ready to accept his fate and leave the field without even trying his luck against the “beast”.
All this made Pedro Martins unable to control his anger and nerves. The Olympiacos manager rarely loses control in the locker room. It rarely increases the tone. Even in tough times, even when things go wrong, try to be calm. This time, however, he did not want to be calm. He wanted to cause a kind of electric shock to his players to wake them up.
“Are you happy with this image we have? Does this game represent you? This is not our team”, were some of his first phrases in the Olympiakos dressing room, during halftime. But he did not stop there: “Are you afraid? Is it football we play? Wake up we have entered the race as if we were asleep. We do not enter the phases with force, we lose the ball easily. We look at them as if we are afraid of them. They do not feel us. Be tough, enter the phases with decision. It is not possible to continue like this. Whoever is afraid, tell me to stay out!
In addition, Martins made strong comments about the players personally, asking them to change the way they play. In fact, some of them “squeezed” them a lot, wanting to bring out their selfishness and personality on the field. With his interventions, but also his two changes (Pepe, Brouma, instead of Bouhalaki, Rantzelovic) to change to Olympiakos. With the second half at the “Etihad Stadium” is what Martins wants to see from his team.
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