A happy man.
With three successes and 17 goals scored in as many outings, Christophe Galtier directs a flamboyant PSG, sublime from the start to the end of the match in Lille, won triumphantly (1-7).
The coach commented at a press conference this Sunday evening on his happiness at being at the head of such a formation.
Did you expect to be so ready and so early in the season?
Yes in relation to the work carried out since July 4th.
Compared to those who returned on time, early, who worked during their holidays, sometimes with personal goals.
I felt very quickly that the players wanted to start the championship very strongly.
This Sunday, the offensive animation was a little different with Neymar and Messi further apart.
Why ?
It evolves with the presence of Kylian, who was suspended then a little injured.
We try to find the best possible balance.
They played like that too last season in another organization.
They played for each other with strong images between them, a lot of complicity, smiles.
I liked this willingness to play for each other.
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Do you admire on the edge of the field beyond your role as coach?
That's not the term.
At the end of the week, after the 5-2 against Montpellier, there were all the debates
(about the Neymar-Mbappé quarrel during the second penalty)
and I followed them all for the first time in my career.
I felt from the first training this week that the group had moved on.
We had a perfect week in terms of the game, the intensity, the behavior that a team must have.
I was looking forward to seeing if this perfect week was going to result in a perfect match.
It has been.
I knew it would be difficult for the opponent if my team behaved like in training.
Are you surprised by Vitinha's volume and talent in the middle?
No.
When Luis Campos told me about Vitinha, whom I knew very little about, I looked at his career with Porto.
He is always on the move, he has a very collective spirit, he is the link between defense and attack, he is very mature for his age.
I'm not surprised that he quickly integrated into the system and its partners.
Did you work on Kylian Mbappé's goal at the kick-off?
Yes, hats off to my staff.
It's a situation that we see more and more in other championships and it's good that we see it in the French Championship.
We worked on it in training yesterday
(Saturday)
and we did it perfectly.
On what levers to act to maintain the level?
It is the daily requirement, the requirement of the high level, of the Champions League.
That everyone can participate in the sequence of matches.
I made five changes tonight, there will be some sooner sometimes.
The most important thing is that there is no slack.
These are players who want to succeed.
They may have a little revenge to take collectively on last season even if they were champions of France.
We need happy players in the locker room who want to join the project.