Victorious in the first leg (2-0) thanks to a double from Marie-Antoinette Katoto and a solid performance, the Parisiennes will try this Wednesday (9 p.m.) to win their ticket for the semi-finals.
Coach Didier Ollé-Nicolle is looking forward to playing this match in front of 25,000 spectators, with a group where only Jade Le Guilly and Sara Däbritz will be absent.
He takes the opportunity to send strong messages, in particular about the extension of Marie Katoto.
What analysis did you make of the first leg and what do you still need to correct to seek qualification?
DIDIER OLLE-NICOLLE.
I will not go into the detail of the tactical aspect.
But there are things that we rectify after each match.
We prepared to be ready and ready for the months of March, April, May.
We know it all happens there.
But you had to be consistent, coherent and move forward.
So the bulk of the work has been done for eight months.
Today, it's more surgical.
In the first leg we met a very good team.
These are girls who have been playing together for four or five years and are reaching maturity in terms of automation, movement, play. They have an identity but we knew it.
We see that they are very consistent.
So we knew that in Munich it was going to be complicated in certain areas.
We didn't have all our weapons.
It lacked important players in our balance and in experience.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) we will find a coherent team.
Overall I have been very satisfied with how the team has been working for a while.
That does not mean that we should never be satisfied with what we have.
Our idea, if we want to go to the top level and succeed at least this season, is to have this requirement, to always progress and to settle these small details.
How do you manage the fatigue with the matches that follow one another every three days?
There is no miracle formula.
You have to put a lot of emphasis on recovery between games and pay attention to the dosage of training.
Afterwards, when we have been training every day for 8 months, at some point the players prefer to play.
The positioning of the Coupe de France semi-final (Editor’s note: 4-2 victory at Fleury on Saturday) was not necessarily easy, between two Champions League matches, because there was still a final to go for .
And for the club it is very very important.
We know that for the moment the female PSG does not have many titles.
This year we want to register as many lines as possible on this list.
The Cup is one of them.
But tomorrow night the idea is to continue our Champions League work and qualify.
“The Ultras give an even more emotional connotation”
You will evolve in front of 25,000 supporters.
What does this represent?
Already it's wonderful to play at the Parc as we did against Real (Editor's note: in front of 20,000 people in November), it was an unforgettable evening where the team had been in fusion with the public.
That was also the case when we played Jean-Bouin the other two qualifying matches.
There was a good feeling with the whole audience.
Afterwards, the Ultras give an even warmer, a little more emotional connotation.
When you see the enthusiasm, I really want to thank them in advance.
He really is our 12th man.
This was already the case in Fleury even if they were less numerous.
We feel that there is really a fringe of supporters who are behind his team.
The supporters who follow us are really grateful and recognize themselves.
Tomorrow night that's it.
I was talking about it yesterday (Monday) to the girls:
these are exceptional times for them.
Very humbly I told them that I had the chance to make semi-finals and Cup finals.
But I'm happy as a kid to prepare and play this match.
We are going to do everything to live an exceptional moment.
How do you view the popular success around the Champions League quarter-finals?
That's wonderful.
To play as we have already done at the Parc, to play as at the Allianz Arena, to play again at the Parc tomorrow in front of 25,000 people.
We were in Madrid.
I was watching Juve-Lyon too.
All these large stadiums open to women's football.
I also learned that the Spanish derby Barça - Real was going to be played in front of 90,000 people.
It's the real, real, real beautiful promotion of women's football, of European football.
We are very proud to be part of it and that's why we also have the extreme, ultimate desire to be part of the last four where we know that the semi-finals and the final will take place in large full stadiums.
We worked, we suffered, we progressed, to live these moments.
In the medium term would you like PSG to be able to play all its matches at the Parc?
You know the players are waiting for that.
They like to play on grass pitches and in a big stadium.
We know that there is proximity to Paris.
It's easier to get people to come, our Ultras prefer to come to the Park.
Our goal on the sporting level is to make the club progress.
In terms of image, recognition.
That we have better conditions to train.
It is always the objective to reach the very high level.
We know that there are projects with lots of things that will happen.
We are on the cusp of that.
We only dream of that: to be the team that registers.
To mark this territory of PSG in the very high level of women's football and that it allows to create a real enthusiasm, a real recognition and a real development.
Les Parisiennes in training on the eve of the Champions League quarter-final second leg against Bayern Munich at the Parc des Princes pic.twitter.com/1IQkigFRRg
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Can we speak of "Katoto dependency" currently for Paris?
Bayern Munich is a great machine and there is Lewandowski who makes the work of the whole team fruitful.
When PSG have had great matches, like against Real here, it's a team and then there's Mbappé who makes the difference.
All the great teams have a good scorer, a good goalkeeper.
But the good goalscorer, without a team that works, recovers the balls, etc., cannot do anything.
So today we have a very good team which is in the process of being put in place and a striker, Marie, who is exceptional.
in his daily behavior.
in its evolution.
I think she has had a real evolution over the season, in terms of consistency, participation in the game, defensive work as much as in her goals.
But that presupposes having a very strong defense, very lively corridors and a supportive and lively midfielder.
Sara (Däbritz) has never scored so many goals, Grace (Geyoro) either.
Here, it is that we worked a lot upstream so that it is a real collective and that there are a maximum of players capable of bringing danger.
It's a real collective.
It turns out that Mary is indeed very important and very effective.
But I don't like to talk about addiction.
It would mean something else.
She will be free at the end of the season.
Where is its extension?
I want my 14, 15 basic girls, who play all the time, to be at PSG next season.
At Bayern, they have been working together for 4, 5 years.
And we have a young group.
Pau (Dudek), Grace (Geyoro), Marie (Katoto) are holders of my team and their selection but they still have a lot of room for improvement.
And the more we will play, win things together, the more this team will be able to settle at a really good level.
If we were to lose three, four or five players as was the case last year, it will always be a yoyo.
And I want us to have something ready and in relation to that, and it's the same thing for Sara (Däbritz), Sandy (Baltimore), I absolutely want, and I say it loud and clear to my management , let it go, let it go fast,