After dominating Lyon (3-0) in the round of 16, the Parisiennes travel to Montpellier, this Saturday at 2 p.m. (Eurosport 2), in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, of which they are the favorites.
But Didier Ollé-Nicolle, the PSG coach, does not want to hear about this status.
After a busy international break for your players, can we imagine you satisfied to have avoided the trap at Fleury (4-0)?
DIDIER OLLE-NICOLLE.
Yes, I feared this Fleury match, insofar as we had recovered everyone with a spoon and until the last minute.
The idea was to collectively prepare for this Montpellier match by being very, very serious.
We knew we would miss gas but we had to find our background. That's why I had put the standard team of 2022 so that we had benchmarks.
And physically, where are you?
There was a lot of fatigue.
At halftime, in Fleury, Katoto asked me out because she couldn't take it anymore.
There are girls who suffered so we tried, as soon as the score was acquired, to quickly make changes.
Monday and Tuesday, I felt that there was still the aftereffect of the trips, the matches, the synthetic pitch at Fleury… But the victory was good and we had good sessions.
What welcome do you expect in Montpellier?
This is a team that has found its organization by playing five behind.
They are strong and hard to move.
We saw that Lyon only beat them at the last minute (3-2 on January 22) so it will be difficult.
We know it.
We had a tough league game there as we only won 1-0.
We're going to have to play a very, very good game.
It was definitely one of the toughest draws but that's the way it is.
We have a team with ambitions.
If our players have traveled a lot it is also because they are international and therefore have value.
So we can't have butter and butter's money.
They are experienced girls, they want to win titles and that requires qualifications.
In March,
Two notable absentees: Amanda Ilestedt and Aminata Diallo.
The first is injured, the second pays for Luana's return to form in a group limited to 16 players in the Coupe de France #PSG https://t.co/yGsB6yAOba
— The Parisian |
PSG (@le_Parisien_PSG) March 4, 2022
Does having eliminated Lyon in the eighth round make PSG the favorite of this Coupe de France?
No, no, no… I didn't like it at all the other time… Everyone communicates as they want but I will never say that my team is the favourite.
She was not at Fleury.
It will not be in Montpellier.
It's a Cup game.
We have seen that Versailles has just made the semi-final of the Coupe de France.
I take this opportunity to congratulate them on their journey.
They lost narrowly to Nice (2-0).
So we see that everything is difficult in football when there are real stakes.
We know that Montpellier is aiming to qualify too.
It is certainly their decisive match of the season.
So there is no favourite.
Until the end, it will be necessary to be very serious.
And what has made our regularity and our strength for a while is this: respecting everyone, preparing for all matches without ever trivializing them.
👉 Here are the posters of the 1/4 finals of the Women's French Cup!
Nice shock from @D1Arkema with Montpellier 🆚 PSG on the program.
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– French Cup (@coupedefrance) February 2, 2022
Since the start of the season, despite everything, we have felt a calm and confident team…
Yes, but one does not preclude the other.
It's by resetting the counters to zero each week, by having a goodwill.
The idea is: how do you recover the ball, how do you use it, how do you evolve during the two transition phases when losing the ball or recovering?
It's a daily job.
It took two or three months, the time everyone spoke the same language, to have something coherent today.
But I also know from experience that it's fragile, that nothing is ever taken for granted.
And it is precisely by staying focused on ourselves, on our work, our game and by respecting our opponent with great humility each time, that we will go far.
For this match in Montpellier, I absolutely expect the same mentality as against Lyon (3-0), with work, the common effort,
