“How should I handle this? You tell me. I’m his coach; I tell him to get off and he says, ‘I’m not going off’. How am I supposed to handle this? So, this is something that characterises the Greeks and all these lads who come to play for the national team, regardless of their age. I think it was a scene that everyone who was there witnessed. I told him to come off, because I suspected he wouldn’t have done that unless he’d felt something. We don’t know the extent of the injury today, but I hope it was just a cramp, something temporary. I didn’t have any reason [to keep him on] to be honest, because these aren’t qualifying matches – they’re Nations League fixtures – and, first and foremost, I wanted to protect the player. He didn’t want to stay by my side to come off; instead, he went to defend the corner. And then he came off. These are our players."   submitted by   /u/KoupDetat [link]   [comments]