At the press conference ahead of PAOK’s rematch against Midtjylland (February 24, 10:00 p.m., COSMOTE SPORT 2 HD and Live by Sportish), Razvan Lucescu expressed his complete confidence in Antonio Colak and sent the message for his qualifying biceps.
Razvan Lucescu spoke about tomorrow’s PAOK “final” with Midland (24/2, 22:00, COSMOTE SPORT 2 HD and Live by Sportish), the problem that arose with Akpom and Tsolak who will replace him and stressed that that he doesn’t need to provide answers for those who believe he “sacrificed” Europe for the championship in his first tenure at Toumba. “You always have to set priorities, otherwise you risk losing everything”, he said characteristically.
What his coach said:
For the absence of Akpom: “I trust Tsolak. In every league he’s played in he’s shown he can score goals and in training he shows me he’s a smart footballer. The fact that he didn’t put a lot of time into it to take part is up to his return.” after a while to PAOK: “And how he spent five days with Covid.
For the preparation of PAOK: “Technically, the preparation was the same. We analyzed what we had to do, we worked in certain areas like psychology. It’s final, but that’s how we approach all games. It’s a great opportunity for the team to continue to to get ahead in Europe and everyone recognized that to be 100% focused on the goal.
Play every three days aYou gain rhythm, but you lose the chance to face a game as a final because you can’t focus on a game that judges the season. In any case, we’re coming from good times and are full of confidence that we’ve built this franchise.”
Whether qualifying will be an answer to those who say he sacrificed Europe for the Championship in his first spell.“I don’t have to give any answers. I’m at a good level. A qualification can’t be an answer for those who have these views. A qualification will be for the whole team, for us and for everyone who represents PAOK. In football when you have ambitions and strategy, you also need to have priorities, these may change from season to season but prioritization is necessary or you may lose them all.
Therefore, the game was our priority in terms of the championship game with Aris. We were unlucky in the program because there were difficult games after the European derbies were. It’s very difficult because players in Europe expend more energy against teams from other leagues. We faced that problem in the autumn, we’ve made up for it now and that was reflected in the way we finished the previous game with Aris dominating the field.
For the presence of humans in tomorrow’s game: “People’s presence will be important. They give us the energy we need in a game that decides a qualifier. It will help us as it puts pressure on the opponent. It always happens and it’s important, folks to be on the pitch.” Morning.”
For not scoring in the last two games for his team: “Each game has its own story. In the last few games we lost the intensity in the last 25 meters of the opponent. We didn’t have any aggression and that’s because we come from continuous games. With good spirit, organization and confidence that this situation can help you in critical moments”.
