Pafos’ press representative, Polybios Paliouras, told a well-known radio station that the rematch with Apollon (17/4) will be a difficult match, but his team is thinking about victory.
Wednesday evening (17/4, 20:00) at Paphos will enter the grass of Alphamega with the aim of maintaining its lead (2-1) against Apollo Limassol and get the ticket to the big one finally of Coca Cola Cup.
THAT Press representative of the paphites, Polybius Paliouras he was invited on the “air” of SPORT FM 95.0 and characterized difficult the specific matchhowever, he emphasized that his team is thinking about the victory.
Read an excerpt of what he said:
For the derby with APOEL:
“APOEL certainly had the essence, but I would disagree that we were not good. In the first half and at the beginning of the second half we had opportunities that we did not take advantage of. APOEL are an experienced team and they punished us. We are not looking for excuses regarding the changes, but it is true that in the second goal we conceded, there was also a phase where our players asked for something, at least a foul on Valakari.
After they were inactive we unfortunately conceded the second goal. Then things got difficult. We are disappointed because we wanted the victory. It disappoints us that they didn’t beat APOEL this year, but we have to regroup straight away, we have to be fully focused on tomorrow’s semi-final.”
On the instability shown by Paphos:
“It is true and it cost us valuable points. I think if we had played a few more real games we would have got more points and we would have been closer to Europe. We are forced to focus on tomorrow’s game. We can’t think about anything else”.
For the fact that the chances of securing a European ticket through the league have decreased significantly:
“It is difficult, if we had won yesterday, the situation would have been different. However, that does not mean that we give up”.
Why didn’t Zairo play?
“He was in the plan to play but after 2-0 it seems the coach regretted and avoided taking any risk.”
For race data:
“Ikoko and Meluso remain out. Ikoko is known to miss the year, while Meluso might catch the last matchday. Tumasi is still a doubt.”
For the rematch on “ALPHAMEGA”:
“Very difficult match and Apollo is playing its last card. They are an experienced team at this level. But we gathered experience and became wiser. We also have to think about the victory. The stadium will be full, but it should not affect our players .”
You have a positive tradition in Limassol:
“We’ve done pretty well, but tomorrow’s game is completely different.”
