PSG won this Thursday evening in Madrid (2-0) and qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League as first in its group.
The Parisiennes have held their rank and Didier Ollé-Nicolle welcomed it at a press conference.
The red and blue coach believes that the players have managed to recover mentally in the heart of the Hamraoui affair and after the correction received in Lyon (6-1).
How do you judge the game of your players?
DIDIER OLLE-NICOLLE.
We played a serious game.
A complicated start, during the first 15-20 minutes.
It was not easy for two reasons: there is a good Real Madrid team, which wanted to push us to our limits after the recent events, and there was tension on the part of the players.
There were one or two extra touches.
We struggled to set the pace and set the right tempo.
Our community then managed to take its marks.
We saw a good PSG team in terms of play and possession.
Is it a relief?
We had two objectives.
When you lose a match, an ambitious team does not lose behind.
There was always the little doubt of the digestion of the Lyon match and the rest.
I felt the players were very concerned.
We worked a lot on the video, everything we missed against Lyon.
Today, we started with a positive and everything we had built against Real in the first leg.
Once the nervousness passed, we reviewed some interesting things.
"The team was really hurt by this match in Lyon"
How does Sakina Karchaoui feel, going out on injury?
Sakina hurt her ankle from the first minute.
She has a certain weakness in her ankles.
Little by little, she came back to the game to gain momentum in the second half, as on the goal she scored.
She then twisted her other ankle.
It's a bit early to find out more.
She recovers quite quickly.
What was the discourse for the players on the mental level?
We know the situation, I won't go over it.
There was a very heavy defeat on top of that.
We're not used to losing like that.
The team was really hurt by this match in Lyon.
We had to confine ourselves, staff and players together.
It was complicated for them and for me too.
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These are situations that we do not know.
We had to redo the icing together, stay united, focus on football.
We lost in Lyon because we defended badly, we lost a player… The culprits were us.
Mentally, it wasn't easy for anyone.
The only thing I could control was my feelings.
I could not be in their place.
Everyone had to stay strong.
I had the idea to bounce back as quickly as possible to be calm in this competition and put something positive back into this team.
