Just before joining the PSG bus whose engine was already running, Marco Verratti agreed to stop in the mixed zone and come back to this defeat in Nantes.
As Leonardo, his sporting director had done a few minutes earlier (“I think there is a desire to whistle against us”, said Leo), the Italian midfielder attacked the referee Mr. Lesage and his attitude.
Paris had many chances but was not successful?
MARCO VERRATTI.
Yes, but that's football.
We created a lot of chances but there were games before, where we didn't deserve to win and where we won… That's football.
You have to take responsibility.
We could score more.
Sometimes we were unlucky.
Sometimes we should have been more efficient.
Because you can't create six or seven clear chances and only score one goal.
But it happens.
And we congratulate Nantes who had a good match.
How did you find the agreement between Messi, Mbappé and Neymar?
When you create a lot of chances, it's a good sign.
It means that the team has turned out well.
We played.
The front three did a very good job and created chances on their own.
He misses the goals which are the most important thing in football.
We must do better.
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Can this opposition serve you for the return match in Madrid?
Each match, each training session can be used for major events.
We wanted to win here.
We showed that, physically, we could attack until the last minute.
Anything can help.
The more you play, the more experience you get and, even when you lose, you can gain experience that will be useful to you later.
Is this defeat worrying?
Nobody likes to lose.
This is our second in the league.
I watch the performance.
Once again, I say it, I was sometimes unhappy with certain matches where we had nevertheless won.
When you perform well, it's a good sign.
We must continue like this.
What would you have liked to say to the referee?
Oh, many things!
Because it is not possible.
He whistles the penalty against us and gives a yellow card to Wijnaldum.
OK.
We take a penalty for us for an even clearer fault on Kylian.
And there is no card for Nantes!
When it would have been red.
It's not the fact that he missed his game or not.
Me, I'm the first to have missed passes and everything.
But when we are on the ground, we are always told: “We have to respect, we have to respect.
“But they (the referees), they are aggressive from the first moments against us!
They speak badly to us.
The referee criticizes Kimpembe for hanging around the opponent a little too much when, at the same time, Pallois makes a tackle and Kylian (Mbappé) finds himself with his ankle swollen like that… That's what I don't understand.
To whistle a fault or not,
it does not matter.
But there are principles.
What was missing in Paris?
To score goals.
