Read below transcript of Pedro martins presser following our side’s win to Asteras Tripolis.
Before you comment on Olympiacos transformation in away matches after the Nea Smirni fixture and their amazing performance in Agrinion and Tripolis, let us know what happened with Guilherme. As football coach and not in your capacity as the one of Olympiacos, how do you explain Pasalidis reaction at the midfield, because it seemed to us the only thing he didn’t want to intercept was the ball?
“Let’s start with the second question. Guilherme is being rushed to the hospital, so we will get our answers soon. We can say unless we have the exams. As per the match, we produced some top-level football and we had perfect finishes. We scored some early goals and the came Guilherme’s injury. The first half was very good; after the break, we also created goal-scoring opportunities and it was due to the quality of Asteras’ players that we netted no more goals. We are very sorry with Guilherme’s injury and the way it happened; we watched an unusual move on behalf of the Asteras’ player that we haven’t seen so far in the matches he had played”.
Do you think was the best performance of Olympiacos so far? The squad set out very decisively, they scored two early goals and managed to keep a good pace in this away fixture that it normally gives a hard time to Olympiacos.
“Indeed, figures and facts show this has been one of our best matches. All teams have evolved; so have we. We found ourselves and produced well. When finishing, we had that killer instinct, we have found our sharpness we lacked in previous encounters. We used to miss this killer instinct. Figures show that this was one of our best away matches”.
Tomorrow, it’s the Europa League draw. What club would you wish to avoid?
“There is no point in talking about the draw; we’ll talk about our next rival tomorrow after the draw. The Europa League looks like a mini Champions League and it features many strong outfits”.
Should you be to submit, today, your European list of players, would Soudani claim a place in it?
“Certainly. Clearly, he would have a place in our European list. After these 3-4 months, we can see his amazing work, we see he has changed the way he plays football. Both last results are also credited to Soudani. If I were to decide tomorrow, I would have made up my mind in a completely different way compared to 3 months ago”.
