wow what a night it was on the final night of season 4 for us.with us 3 points clear of 8th and 3 goals clear of Bordeaux and and a further 7 goals in front of stoke city. i had a decision to make.
i felt with Bordeaux playing high scoring fc Basel that the 3 goal advantage would be enough.i expected to lose to stoke as they were in form.so looking ahead to the play offs i made 10 changes to the side.
the players were given a chance to prove to me they deserved to play in the play offs and that massively backfired as we got spanked 5-1 by stoke,thankfully for us Bordeaux did concede at Basel going down 2-1. and stoke coming within just 3 more goals of knocking us out of the play offs.
thankfully things payed of and we secured a second straight finish in the play offs since i took over at olympiacos. we now face a tricky game against dynamo kyiv in the play off semi final.
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i think with all things considered the whole first team will be replaced with my main players all coming back in. with us playing away in the first leg. more pressure is on dynamo kyiv with home advantage.with my players having extra rest i'm hoping that will be enough to take us through to the final. nothing is guaranteed in the play offs as we no.
reports have of course surfaced along with many others with the t100 merry go round of a possible move to manage elsewhere. my future as already been decided and will be made clear after the play offs. my focus is to get these bunch of guys promoted into the 3rd tier.
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