Before attacking a rich week with trips to Haifa in the Champions League on Wednesday and to Lyon next Sunday in the league, Christophe Galtier learned the lessons of the short success against Brest (1-0) this Saturday at the Parc.
First, what is the news about Presnel Kimpembe released at the end of the match?
CHRISTOPHER GALTIER.
He is hurt.
At least he has a muscle lesion.
We will wait within 48 hours to see the condition and severity.
What is certain is that he will be unavailable for the next two games.
Brest coach Michel Der Zakarian believes that his fault deserved yellow.
And since he had already been warned...
It's happening right in front of us.
There is a tackle engaged but on the ball.
The referee has with him his assistant and the VAR who keeps him informed of what she saw.
From the moment he does not put a second card, it is because everyone believes that there is no card.
But anyway, there is no debate since Kim did not return to the field.
He got injured on that tackle and didn't come back.
“We got a bit buggy in this game.
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Christophe Galtier
Are you satisfied with what you saw in this game?
Satisfied with what I saw offensively in the first half.
Where the players have created a lot of situations.
I think we deserve to lead, maybe with one or two more goals.
I still felt that we had taken a long time to get into the game.
We purred a lot, made technical errors and defensive positioning.
In the second half it is very mixed.
Even if we had one or two situations at the start, we suffered a lot.
We made a lot of technical errors which made Brest gain in confidence.
We lost the ball and the team was quickly cut in half which generated a lot of effort and generated a lot of hope for Brest.
There is the penalty and Gigio (Donnarumma) has the good idea to keep us in the game by making this save.
(2-1 success on Tuesday)
and that we had a little buggy in this match.
When you're in Paris you can't let the opponent hope like that.
Kimpembe's bad gesture towards the referee could have earned him a red... 😬pic.twitter.com/fmqBR0gZIk
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How much did the Champions League weigh?
This is the sequence of matches.
And it's not just any sequence: it's the fifth in two weeks.
This comes just behind a great Champions League match against a quality opponent with all that entails in terms of intensity and pressure.
So automatically there is a descent.
And you receive Brest who are having a difficult start to the season so you can have the feeling that things are going to be much simpler and easier.
It's all linked.
To what extent did you take this into account when composing your team?
There were two options on the starting 11.
A totally modified.
Or have something not hybrid since there were only two changes compared to Tuesday, given that Renato Sanches is injured.
I couldn't play Fabian Ruiz who hadn't played a minute since the start of the season with Napoli or us.
As a result, I had to arbitrate on positions or players.
And then I made the decision to start with our attacking trio with the hope that the team could make the difference quickly enough to have a simpler management of the match.
But there's everything you can predict and then there's the game.
And finally somehow there are changes that were needed and I managed to make them.
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Did you hesitate to bring out Neymar and Mbappé when the difference was not yet fully made?
Yes I hesitated.
Ney and Kylian ran a lot against Juventus.
Ney had taken a card and the match was starting to get more involved, there was this thought of always staying at eleven on the field.
Kylian goes on matches, he plays a lot.
He's a sprinter.
We know the consequences that fatigue has on the muscles of a sprinter.
So I made that decision.
I knew that there was a risk taking since the score was not acquired but there are also players like Pablo Sarabia or Hugo (Ekitike) who have ants in their feet and must also exist with the team.
You had hinted that you wanted to make changes sooner.
Was it the scenario of the match that stopped you?
Yes, Marco (Verratti) was not expected to start the match before the announcement of Renato's (Sanches) withdrawal.
But quickly I told him that the team was going to need him but also that he was going out to have a good management of his playing time. Obviously if the scenario had been different I would have made the changes much earlier.
Neymar has overtaken Pauleta in the ranking of PSG's top scorers.
How do you view what he has achieved since the start of the season?
So I find out.
It's been two and a half months since I discovered the man.
The player, I do not discover him since he has been with us for five years and I have always considered that he was one of the best players on the planet.
But I have a much more informed, sharp look at what I see him doing every day in his preparation, in the investment he has before the session, during the session and post-session.
And if today he has overtaken Pauleta and is having a good start to the season, it's because he puts a lot of seriousness and concentration into his work.
He is very invested.
Both on a personal level but also for his partners and for the interest of the team.
He is a great professional.
I knew he was a great player but he is a great professional whom I discover with pleasure every day.
