Angers-PSG: "It was very difficult," admits Pochettino's deputy

This Saturday in Maine-et-Loire, the capital club gleaned the three points thanks to a goal from Layvin Kurzawa.

Jesus Perez, one of Mauricio Pochettino's assistants, is delighted with this painful success.

Perez is in charge of leading the sessions and workshops at the usual time but this Saturday evening he also had to give his voice because of the absence of Pochettino, positive for Covid-19 and forced into isolation.

What is your analysis of the meeting?

JESUS ​​PEREZ.

It was very difficult.

Angers is very organized and winning all three points was difficult against a great team.

How do you judge Kylian Mbappé's performance?

He was very important for the victory today (this Saturday).

We changed his role during the match.

He contributed to the victory by attacking the spaces.

He lacked success in the last gesture but his involvement was important.

Why did you field four attackers at kick-off: test or mid-term idea?

Mauricio's philosophy is more about the animation of the game than the number of players per line.

We will see according to the profiles of the matches.

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Did you come into contact with Pochettino during the match?

We have been in contact with him.

He had one with the players by video before the game.

We had it before, at half-time and after the match.

For the coming week, we discussed and we continue to discuss.

The content of the sessions is already established but it is true that it is not the same with or without Mauricio.

We've been working together for ten years, we know what he's waiting for.

We will take advantage of this double week with only one match on the program to work on the sectors where we intend to progress.

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What are your feelings as a man on the bench?

The planning of the game is the same as usual and our roles, as assistants, have not changed in practice.

Obviously, someone needed to get the messages across.

But we discussed as we usually do and it happened naturally.