Maccabi’s head coach Giannis Sfairopoulos before the game against Los Blancos: “We need to be very aggressive and very concentrated this two things are very important for this game”
“We need to react and play our game”, said coach Sfairopoulos. “We need to show that although we are still hurting from the cup and we fell down really hard we need to stand up and keep fighting really hard, in our lives we have moments that we go down but now is not the time to cry but to step up and keep fighting this is what we want to do”.
“Everybody Is sad about the cup game”, coach Sfairopoulos concluded. “But we’re in the middle of our next two goals that we have and we need to fight really hard starting with this game. We need to be very aggressive and very concentrated this two things are very important for this game. We need to be ready and to stay in the game until the end because if we stay until the end then maybe we’ll have our chances, for sure it’s one of the most difficult games away but we believe in our team it’s a difficult game but with a good way of mental preparation and tactically if we follow our plan we’ll have our chances and this is what we’re going to do, we’ll fight for our chances”.
“Real Madrid is an excellent team we know that”, said Cohen. “A very good team at home but there are a lot of good teams at home,to say it’s the toughest? I don’t know I mean it’s a really tough game and hard to measure one out of the other. But we’re gonna go there and do what we can do and try to get the win on the road. We have a really talented team, we know they are a good team but we’re not taking anything for granted, we’re not going there thinking lets keep it under 20 points, we wanna win the game, that’s our goal we’re professionals just like them we play on the same league on the same baskets and same court as we do, they are human beings just like us”.
