Razvan Lucescu expressed his satisfaction with his team’s improvement in the press conference of the match between PAOK and Ghent.
PAOK beat Gent 1-0 in the first leg of the Europa Conference League round of 16. During the press conference, Razvan Lucescu expressed his satisfaction with the improvement in his team and the opening up in Dikefalos’ rotation.
Lutsescu’s statements in detail:
On whether it would be a perfect game if it weren’t for the yellow cards: “There are difficult games in Europe, anything is possible. So we have to keep going. We have to give everything to qualify. We always have to fight for it. We have a good team against us, but it’s us.” also “I’m thinking about the next game. The win we had was good.”
How close is PAOK to its desires: “We started a great job in the summer, I’m not an easy coach, I pass on a lot of information, the team needs time to learn, understand and improve. We went into the competitions with a lot of problems from previous years gone, those who came wanted time We had injuries, falls and delayed group improvement.
We wanted to get through the groups and play a difficult program. We were harassed. In the first year we have improved a lot. I’m happy with the mentality. We’re not perfect, we’re struggling and we manage to get the results we want, like in the game against AEK, in the two games against Midland. I see the improvement and that’s important in football. Now we can say that we are counting on a larger number of players who will play during the week. We’re not perfect, we have a way, but I’m satisfied.”
How important is the presence of PAOK’s property near the team: “I think we have to say he’s always there. Even if he’s not in Thessaloniki, he’s part of the team, he talks to us often and twice a week. We feel close to him. It’s a bit more ‘difficult for our opponents to be here’.
When the duty roster makes the job easy and a clear head also comes from strengths: “As a coach I have to look ahead, I can’t stand the two yellow cards. We have players available immediately, with different elements and motivations. No matter how well you analyze the opponent in Europe, you don’t know how they will present themselves. It’s different from home championship. The fairest result was 1-0. I’m disappointed that we weren’t confident for 20 minutes.
We’re working on fitness, it’s improving. Rotation also helped us. The players feel good too. “We want to go to Belgium to win.”
