Rudi Garcia is riding the wave of a team which has just chained 11 games without defeat in the league and overtaken PSG thanks to its 1-0 success this Sunday at the Parc des Princes.
The Lyon coach considers the success deserved and even inferior to the difference between the two teams, but he refuses to openly aim for the title… for the moment.
Thomas Tuchel mentioned "a game of a very low level, not only on the side of Paris", do you agree?
RUDI GARCIA.
If when Paris cannot develop an action, shoot little and frame little, then it was not a good match… It means above all that we defended well, destroyed their forces and played well enough offensively to score once .
If I have something to regret, it's that we were able to hold the ball home and we could have done better in the last pass to be more precise, more fair.
We could have won more widely.
The penalty on Thiago Mendes may seem logical but the penalty on Memphis Depay has been completely forgotten.
The victory would have been even more beautiful for us.
We are very satisfied to have won here against the best team in France, but also one of the best at European level.
Does your second place in the standings, tied on points with leader Lille, change your ambitions?
No because we are playing in three days, there are three games left before the winter break.
We must improve this victory on Wednesday.
We remain on 11 games without defeat.
It's not easy not to lose in Paris, even if you came to win.
We were close to our best level.
We're not first, we're second, but that doesn't change the goal at all, which is to be in all three.
The objective, for the moment, is to put the 4th as far as possible.
This is not the case at the moment.
We had the good idea to win this Sunday evening to continue looking upwards.
At the third of the championship, don't you have the idea of dreaming bigger, as the slogan of the PSG wants it?
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This does not prevent dreaming, but it would be lacking in humility to a third of the championship.
We've been undefeated for a long time, we already have to think about playing 100% against Brest.
You just have to move on and stay humble.
So far, it's pretty good.
Was PSG a little worse or did you find the recipe?
Every game is different.
There is the truth tonight.
The truth of this evening is that we have conceded very few situations.
And yet opposite there are two of the five best players in the world.
This enhances the offensive animation of my team.
We came to win and we did it but I think we can do better, even against this kind of armada, in the use of the ball.
But we are not going to be choosy either, be satisfied with this victory and focus on the rest.
Is your environment your main strength?
The heart of the game is the midfielder, for sure, but without a good goalkeeper, good defense and good offense you're going to have a hard time.
We have excellent players in this area, and it's no coincidence that we play with three midfielders.
We are lucky - or unlucky - to have time in the middle of the week to work on preferential circuits.
We have complementary backgrounds with different qualities.
The only 100% defensive player is Thiago Mendes, who made a huge match.
Thanks to Caqueret, Paqueta, Aouar, I have different solutions and the team is doing well.