Olympiacos boss Jose Luis Mendiliber has blasted his players and claimed they struggle to play in front of their own fans ahead of their Europa League showdown with Rangers...despite winning at the weekend.
Rangers travel to Greece this week for the fourth game in the group after wins against Malmo and Steaua Bucharest and a defeat against Lyon.
Olympiacos warmed up for the game with a narrow 2-1 home victory against Panserraikos, but Spanish boss Mendiliber - who led the Athens club to Europa Conference League glory last season - was very unhappy at his side's display.
He said: "I didn't enjoy the game at all. We gave our opponents far too many chances. If they had equalised and got a draw, we couldn't have complained.
"It seems to be the norm for us to struggle in our own stadium this season. We didn't do anything well. Even when we went ahead, we kept doing stupid things.
"All week, we worked hard in training and on the pitch we did the complete opposite.
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"It's the players' fault, it's my fault too. I'm the boss so it starts with me. I am as much to blame.
"I choose the starting team and choose our tactics and I haven't convinced our players about the way they should play.
"I wish I could explain what went wrong. You read the stats and we had four times the possession, a lot of chances, a lot of shots, but on the other hand you make so many mistakes and we kept giving the ball to the opponent.
"To almost not win the game with those kinds of figures is incomprehensible."
