2024-04-17 19:15:59
The coach of PAS, Michalis Grigoriou, emphasized in the statements that it is a bad day for the historical team of PAS and he also took his share of responsibility.
His statements in detail: “I think today’s game is a reflection of the entire time I have been in the team, because really many games, like today’s, had a similar outcome. Obviously we only wanted the 3 points today to have mathematical hope. We started well, we were dominant, we had important chances and many conditions. In the second half we had about the same picture, but without classic chances. We wanted the win to keep our mathematical hopes alive. Despite everything, a defeat came again which has become a habit for us. We are in the worst position, there is no hope. It’s a bad day for this historic team. I personally apologize to the wonderful world, the apology that belongs to me. PAS Ioannina will find its way, it will come back, this is what suits PAS and Greek football based on what I have experienced and seen here. We don’t have much to say. We are all equally upset. If we could go back in time, we might have done some things differently to avoid what happened. We have said and analyzed a lot, right now is not the time to say much, only to reflect on what has happened.
On what exactly is his share and why he didn’t improve the team in the time he had: “I have called it my share. Globally, teams are built from the summer, not in the middle of the year. When the foundations enter summer and home being the base is important. We’ve answered that and no coach takes full responsibility when he comes into the middle and when he takes a risk. If the situation was average before and there were only details to be corrected and I didn’t do it, we would have discussed differently. Today we had a problem scoring, in other matches we had it in defense. And we have said this before. We have told the players that we will have to build up, that we will go to the middle zone, that we will go to the offensive zone to create the conditions for goals. Not all the pieces were fixed, but if we look at it coldly, we played 1.5 months without Nagy, without Eramuspe today, without Tutu who was injured in his best match against Atromitos. They were units that are not easy to replace. I have learned to take responsibility, one year lasts 11 months, I am 3.5 months in PAS. I take 1/3 of the relegation, but we won’t put a blame meter. I’m trying to fix a situation by myself. Not everything is fixed no matter how hard you try sometimes. Regardless of the circumstances, I couldn’t make what I had in mind. After OFI, I had a conversation with the president, I was asked to stay until the end so that there would be signs of seriousness even in the daily life of the team, not only in the matches. So what I have done to take responsibility in practice you are forcing me to make public. To what was asked of me, that is to close the year with seriousness, my answer was affirmative, because I have to do anything, even if it is at my expense, which is not at my expense.”
For the statements that he does not make on the field for the second time and that he was afraid that his image would not be crumpled with disapproval: “If I was hiding I wouldn’t be here. I’m here in front of so many cameras and all of you, I never sent any of my partners, I didn’t hide. Inside the stadium, the issue is procedural. Even under these circumstances, the acceptance of my face in the world remains at a good level from what they tell me, which I did not expect given the proportions and what happened. I thank the people, their football culture impressed me.
If he will continue in the team next year: “Here we don’t know who will be the president. I’m not the issue today, I’m the last hole in the pipe. The contract was for 6 months and no renewal option. But the last thing that concerns me is me, there are more serious matters in the team.”
SOURCE: super-fm.gr