Carvalhal: “We played a good game offensively, let’s fix the defensive mistakes”

Olympiacos Piraeus beats Batska Topola 5-2 and continues in Europe. Carlos Carvalhal, in his statements to COSMOTE TV, highlighted the elements that his team wants to improve.

In fact, at the beginning of his statements he tried to speak in Greek and said:Today they are a good team.”

Carvalhal’s statements in detail:

For the game: “The team wasn’t perfect, they played a good game and managed to win. We implemented what we worked on in training. We showed good elements, but there are some things that need to be corrected.”

What needs to be improved: “We’re going to break it down. We played well offensively, scored five goals and created chances. Defensively we were good for a long time and conceded two goals due to team mistakes that need to be corrected.”

In terms of transitioning to attack, to improve our speed and come out quicker when attacking. In defense mode, we were good at winning the ball back when we lost the ball. We scored a goal in stoppage time, positive, we didn’t concede a goal in stoppage time either, also positive.”

For the sequel and if he prefers an opponent: “We will approach everything step by step, I had a good run at Braga, as I did with other teams. We don’t think that far ahead. We will see who our opponent is and we will try to qualify.”

Carvalhal’s press conference

What stays away from racing for you and what would you like to change for the future?

“We played a good game, but not a perfect game. Offensively we were good, we scored five goals and created chances for more, defensively the team can improve because it wasn’t nice to concede the two goals. Our offensive function was good.” We won the ball with ease and repeatedly went on the attack. But we can improve the speed at which we recover the ball when the ball is lost. It was a good game, we were happy, but we still have a lot of things to improve on.”

Olympiacos will continue in Europe for another year after the group games. What is your goal for continuing the European course?

“Olympiacos is taking part in three competitions and we are happy with that. The goal is always to win all games in all competitions. We’ll look at each game individually and see how far we can go.”