THE PAOK defeated Lincoln, with Razvan Lucescu standing on his team’s mistakes. However, as the Romanian coach of the Northern Biceps admitted, “today I will finally sleep…”.
After the double of PAOK in Gibraltar, the Razvan Lucescu referred to the importance of this result, emphasizing that the team is gaining confidence.
Detailed what the Romanian coach said:
“It was both easy and difficult. Everyone on the outside thinks it’s easy, but it’s not in these conditions. The pitch, the wind and the weather, in Europe teams of lower quality can be competitive and organized, all this made the game difficult. Whether we won easily or with difficulty, we are a team that did not concede goals and that is important for us. It is a journey that you have to make, to win and to leave, possibly whoever loses points here will leave the group “.
For the difference to play on artificial turf, than on natural:
“It was difficult, Lincoln built all the qualification through this stadium and through all the difficulty that exists in Gibraltar and we had to be spiritually ready.”
For the management of continuous races:
“We had a satisfactory management, we managed to rest some, we used some that normally after 16 days we will not use them in the starting lineup, such as Siddklay, Mitrica and Akpom. Normally we would give them time to adjust. “Even in an easy game it is a stimulus, the victory in self-confidence and psychology and today’s victory gives us a different psychology”.
I agree with the mistakes, but it is a night that I will sleep. The previous four nights I did not sleep due to the defeat with PAS. I said after the defeat, that I insist we are not a spiritually strong team that can manage things when things are not going well. We have to work. We performed well in some games, such as with Bohemian, in the second half with Rijeka. In some others we were not good, as in the first with Bohemian, We have to work and take responsibility. “These victories give you confidence, today ‘s victory will help us a lot to build on that.”
For the next European game he said“I will not go that far, I will think about the next game, we will have time later to think about the game with Slovan”.
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