As always, Joseph Oosting has prepared his team well for the next match. This time, his game plan will have placed extra focus on opponent AZ’s striker, the dangerous Vangelis Pavlidis, who has already scored 27. This makes the Greek the top scorer in the Premier League together with Luuk de Jong. Oosting realizes that Pavlidis must be eliminated.
“We have to be careful about that,” says Oosting in conversation with RTV Oost. “We have to make sure that we make him tired and that if he is tired, he cannot score a goal, because he is tired. We really have to be suspicious of that. That ball is not allowed to go to him, so that ball line has to be removed. ”
At De Oosttribune, Gertjan Verbeek responds immediately. “I don’t think that’s a very strong argument. He tires himself out. Pavlidis works like a horse, he just keeps going for ninety minutes. He doesn’t get tired.” But you have to say something during these kinds of previews, right? “I think it’s strong if you say something about football content. ‘We’re going to make him tired…’ I think he was a bit surprised by the question or he doesn’t want to reveal his secrets, that is of course also possible,” Verbeek concludes.
