Roui Vitoria for Panathinaikos – AEK: “We will face a completely different team from Olympiacos”

He will welcome her tomorrow (19/01/25, 20:30, Live from Newsit.gr) to the great Super League derby and Rui Vitoria talked about the game on Cosmote TV. Roui Vitoria stressed that he is waiting for a completely different team compared to Olympiacos, with whom Panathinaikos “launched” a midweek for the Greek Cup, just before the new derby with AEK. CORVERSE Vitoria’s statements on what his team should do in order to leave with the victory from derby with AEK: “We are prepared for this game. I think these are games that we all want to be part of, whether we from the bench, or players who really want to compete in such games. On our side, we are not looking at the event that we are fighting, but at each opponent separately. I think we are trying to analyze any opponent as best we can, so that we can take advantage of the elements in which we see that he has “themes” and, respectively, be prepared for what the opponent does well. The game with Olympiacos passed, there were some positive elements, but others that did not go as well or as expected. In any case we gave our best, with too much effort. AEK is a completely different type of group, but of course this is a very good group. We must understand very well the way he is struggling and be able to respond to any treaty that will impose the game on us. As a coaching staff, we have to choose the appropriate football players to follow the plan that we want to have in the field. We have taken great confidence, we believe that the team is in a very good momentum, at a very good racing pace and we want to follow up on it.” CORVERSE On whether the two derbys that follow AEK and Olympiacos will judge the odds of claiming the league: “I think it is wrong to look at certain games and say that this is more important than the other. I think that if this is done it is not something that will give us something, especially when we talk about a big team that has in mind that it must win as many games as possible. I don’t know how the other coaches see it, because I think every race is three points for which we have to do our best to beat them. In the end we will see where we have reached with the results we have achieved. I think sitting around saying that this or the other is the most important game, it doesn’t lead you anywhere because you might look back and eventually see that you may have won the theoretically strongest opponents, but it has lost grades somewhere else. And say that we lost our chances there – in a theoretical scenario – to do something good. So I, on my side, always try to focus on the next race, do my best to win the game I have in front of me. In this case it is the struggle with the AEK and I do not enter the process of thinking about the other games ahead. That we should do something more or that these games are more important than others. When you’re on a big team, all the games are just as important. If you remember when we joined the team, the team was in the eighth place of the score and as you understand, we could not at that time sit and say this game is more important. We were trying to do our best to fight the race, so that we could gradually climb the score. Which wasn’t easy, since we had to go through 6-7 teams that sometimes won and others didn’t. But we were not looking at what others did, we cannot control what others do, but what we do.”