In detail, Leonardo Jardim stated the following:
On defensive deficiencies: “Defense is no responsibility of a singleplayer. It’s up to the whole team and we work to become better on that”.
On the squad’s differences to last season: “We may not run a comparisonwith last year. Last year, there were four experienced players and thisyear it is only Torossidis who have played in this position in ChampionsLeague”.
On the change of the goalkeeper: “I just decided that today Megyeri shouldhave played”.
On his picks for the defense-line, which was different to previous matches:“Contreras was necessarily absent from previous fixtures. Manolas playedagainst PAS Giannena. All players are available and I use themaccordingly”.
On whether set pieces are a problem for the team: ”Yes, we do have an issuethere and today as well we conceded a goal from set piece; however, we havealso scored three times from such pieces”.
On whether he regretted some of his choices for the match: “The playerswould have been the same, I didn’t regret that. I’d like to change theresult and to have seen our side turning some of our numerous missedopportunities into a goal”.
On his choice to replace Abdoun and keep Machado in the pitch: “We changedour strategy in our gameplay. Wee decided to play with two strikers andfour players in the midfield; that’s the reason for the those subs”.
On whether he has studied Schalke well enough: “We displayed a goodattitude throughout the game. We performed well in the first half, createdmany goal-scoring opportunities, but it wasn’t our side to have scored inthe end. When playing at home, it is us to capitalize on scoring chancesand, with the help of our fans, to score more goals”.
On whether Olympiacos was composed enough following the equaliser: “In ourdiscussions during the break, we said that we must storm in and we actuallydid it, since we scored the goal. But, when conceding a goal in the verynext minute, it’s reasonable that your state of mind suffers a change”.
