Olympiacos Piraeus

[PsychoFan]

That was the all training or just the time that the press was allowed to watch/film?

[Faliro]

That was the all training or just the time that the press was allowed to watch/film?

They probably did all the basic exercises as well... I suppose the news is, if they did well against AEK, they would have probably had today off.. but VP was at the Rentis early waiting for everyone.. The game in the OAKA will be serious.

We play Ergotelis Saturday 5.30 GMT...

In other news...

[Faliro]

Psychofan, this one is for you. VP gave a big interview to Nova on why he played a weaker team against AEK and other things. Used google translate:

  Just 24 hours after the derby against PAOK at Toumba where Olympiakos had great presence, your team was not as attractive person in the first quarterfinal against AEK. What explanation you give?

'' We have too many consecutive games and the players are not machines. It takes some time to rest. It is therefore natural to make some changes. Because if we do not, the players will risk injury. We made ​​many changes to the game against AEK in relation to the game against PAOK. And we did this because then there are very difficult games. We play games. Then we have to go to Ukraine and then face Panathinaikos. Some of the players had to stay outside, to rest, to avoid injuries and recover from their previous games obligations. It is normal when we find new players in the game, because there are many games on their feet, not have the same performance. To perform well and to upload your performance you should work. At the moment we have no time to work. All we have is time to make recovery from the previous game. Most workouts we use for restoration of the previous games obligations and not to work for the next games. Is the problem so many consecutive games. And necessarily because we have so many games, make these changes and some of the results are not what we want. ''

-Also We saw a lot of mistakes, especially when you carry the ball from defense to midfield. It was lack of clean mind? What do you give an explanation?

'' Some errors may be due to lack of concentration. But most believe that due to fatigue. Several of our players were tired. For this reason they could not think clearly. And not to make the right decisions in the game. To think clearly, should in principle to be refreshed. But we must also have time to work. As I said before I do not have time in training to work, but mainly to do restoration and recovery from the previous games. For example, you can have a defensive line that is very capable and has quality. But to sustain should the players be rested and work much in training. Now we're going to play a derby against Panathinaikos, who in the last three weeks will play three games, while we in the last three weeks we have played nine games. I believe it is impossible to keep your quality in the game. Why I like a team that will be playing aggressively and will be available on all lines. But it is impossible to keep this quality without having time you train, but only then rest. ''

-The Saturday Olympiakos Ergotelis welcome at Karaiskaki, a group that makes great efforts to remain in class. What's your image group of Crete?

'' Right now, what worries me is to get the victories rather than playing good football. No worries both offer good spectacle, as we get the victories and to enable the group to keep up, in the position it is score. Why I think it is impossible, as I said, to present quality in our game, without being able to rest from so many games obligations. In the game against AEK was impossible to present what we wanted, although towards us we had a very good team. AEK is group of second class. It is a group which is the highest position in the second category and that will likely rise in the first category. It is a group that has fast players, very talented and able to create our problem. Naturally AEK has our own quality. For the rematch AEK will have a lot of time in front of her to prepare. It will use the championship games to prepare for us. While we do not have no time to prepare the game against AEK. In the first half we were not good. In the second, however, managed to release the ball. We managed to create opportunities like. But having towards us AEK are a good team and in parallel with our own problems, we could not get the result we wanted. Ergotelis is a group that is fighting to stay in class and of course will cause us problems because I think it will shut too, will play suffocating defense and try to cause us problems with counterattacks. For this game you need a lot of patience. Patience will be needed and our fans. We will need much concentration and patience to be able to open the defense of our opponent to be able to get the win. Of course you should not expect to see a quality game and spectacle in this game. What should concern us most is to get the win. To get the points needed to keep up in the standings. "

-After Ergotelis enter a very critical part of the period, because they follow consecutive games, the Ntnipro and Panathinaikos, the results of which affect the European course and the race of the championship. Are you optimistic?

'' I'm always optimistic. And to be honest, I'm a realist. I know that right now our program is very difficult. We have before us a very important game against Panathinaikos. We have, however, and the two European games, which will preoccupy us, because it is tedious to have three such important games in a week. What we can do is work. We do not have the time to work to prepare our games. We try, however, be focused, be united, to have confidence. What we can do is to observe and read very well our opponents and prepare for games that way. As I said, in training do not have the time to work too. What we want to do is we are focused, united in these games and to have patience. At the same patience we ask our world and understand that there is in this period to give quality in the game. And ask him to understand the difficult time passing the group in February. And have patience. The same will try to do and we do it for all three events. And also understand the important victories. Three points worth playing with Panathinaikos, worth three points and the game against Ergotelis. We want victories.

I would add and say something. Although I do not speak Greek, I see the Greek Greek TV or read newspapers, I understand and I understand that yesterday's game our fans -as I as a fan of Olympiakou- have one question: why not put a better lineup, or lineup usually plays which played before a few PAOK, who are more experienced and ready to face such games. I like coach want to give the answer to this question. The answer is that some of the players who played in previous games and not played against AEK, was because yesterday had fitness problems and facing severe difficulties. We have very important injured players and with problems in their recovery, but also tired. For this we preferred to rest some of them and replace them. Those who played yesterday, tired too. Imagine if I had put the same lineup and the same players with previous games, the result would be played for 30 minutes and then we did not have the energy to continue the rest of the game. We prefer to keep our goals in all three open events and make some changes, so not get off-track, we can face difficult times, resting some of the players who need it. ''

[PsychoFan]

Thanks Faliro. But it wasn't necessary the translation, there is a video.. Eheheh

I liked what he said and it was an important time to say so.

Patience is the key word.

[PsychoFan]

Samaris Interview:

https://mega.co.nz/#!hc8lFJYT!uQMS4-lIf2VfLToP11J0vVK0piG4Q_R8sqUaDHYn6Sw

[Faliro]

  Is there no Youtube of it?

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Mitroglou, Siovas and Masuaku rested for today's game against Ergotelis in Faliro.

VP said, at this stage, it is not about spectacle. Just results. A journalist of sport24 said 'why doesn't he just phone Jardim and ask why he was fired..'

Ergotelis is a weak team. Any fans who bother to show up will expect goals... and more than 2... game is live on bet365 17.30 GMT, perhaps also Benfica TV. Will be interesting.

In other news Santana stated he did not sleep after his poor performance against AEK.

[PsychoFan]

Is there no Youtube of it?

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Mitroglou, Siovas and Masuaku rested for today's game against Ergotelis in Faliro.

VP said, at this stage, it is not about spectacle. Just results. A journalist of sport24 said 'why doesn't he just phone Jardim and ask why he was fired..'

Ergotelis is a weak team. Any fans who bother to show up will expect goals... and more than 2... game is live on bet365 17.30 GMT, perhaps also Benfica TV. Will be interesting.

In other news Santana stated he did not sleep after his poor performance against AEK.

No, Faliro.

That journalist is really stupid, because VP just arrived, it's not like Jardim, that start the season normally..

Perhaps I'll watch the game today, I don't know yet.

[Faliro]

How will you watch it? Benfica TV? Does that include portuguese commentary?

[PsychoFan]

How will you watch it? Benfica TV? Does that include portuguese commentary?

Stream.

If it was in Benfica TV, yes includes portuguese commentary.

[Faliro]

Cool. I am going to watch this one myself.

[PsychoFan]

Cool. I am going to watch this one myself.

What u mean? You gonna watch the game, or are you saying that u gonna watch a BTV stream?

[Faliro]

Going t watch it one Bet365... which is a small box screen that can be enlarged but constant at least. I could never find any BTV streams anyway...

All these Olympiacos games used to free on ERT (Olympiacos was the only team it was free to watch n Greece - everyone else was with Nova). However, when ERT were shut down last year by Samaras, the games went to Nova and they are really bitchy with copyright. Nova is also one of the most expensive sat packages to buy in Europe.

[PsychoFan]

Oh. I just didn't fully understand, because of the 'this one myself'. Well, always learning..

And I ask u that, because BTV will not transmit the game.

I watched the interview of Michel, and the studio was quite impressive No wonder the prices eheh.

[PsychoFan]

Anyway they seem to get a lot of information, interviews and shit. For example that little interview with VP would be impossible here in Portugal, and probably in the rest of the big leagues. Very, very cool.

[Faliro]

I know this may sound weird.. but from just observing greeks over the years, I can safely say, they are the most visually orientated people I know. They love visuals, lush interviews, full access to training - they want everything. Pictures, soundbites - audio-visual confirmation of things they are interested in.. women, their football club, the players - coaches, training - everything -..anything.

This also transcends to what you get at Greek cafes... the best - most luxurious coffees, great furniture to sit on, good music, massive plasma TVs... Same with the food, the pizzas cooked in giant ovens. The plants they plant in the streets - massive Eucalyptus trees... balconies full of bougainvilleas,,,They are a race of pleasure seekers and this is amusing.

Nova is fully aware of this decadence and thus can get away with ridiculous subscriptions. Also Nova show great films.. all in English.. Why I don't go near Nova is because they don't show the spanish league.