"It's dangerous for the players": PSG coach, Galtier denounces the misdeeds of an "insane calendar"

We have two absentees (in addition to Kimpembe and Renato, still unavailable, editor's note), Nuno Mendes, out between three and four weeks, and Leo (Messi), who will be put to rest following calf discomfort but who will resume racing on Sunday and train normally on Monday, the day before the match against Benfica.

This will allow players to have more playing time, I am thinking of Juan Bernat, but also to have a reflection in the offensive sector.

Concerning Kylian, he is not forfeited, he is the victim of angina which he surely already had before the Benfica match.

He worked today, although he stayed indoors.

Is it going to start?

There is a reflection on this because he is the second leading striker in the squad and it is a stadium he knows well, where he has been successful.

He will face his former teammates, his former public.

Afterwards, there is no need to put more pressure than that on Hugo compared to his first tenure.

When you are at PSG and you play in place of, there are comparisons made but they have no place to exist in relation to the experience of each other.

Hugo is a young player, who is developing, who must learn but who must also be competitive, competitive.

There is always a performance obligation, and even more so when you start or come into play with Paris-SG.

It's not the absences.

If there hadn't been so many absences, it wouldn't have changed anything about my thinking for the starting 11.

I would like to take a break and send a message of support to Oscar Garcia, who will once again be absent from the bench.

He is going through very difficult times for a man, he has all my support, that of my staff too.

Gigio works well.

No one is immune to remarks.

Sometimes remarks turn into criticisms.

No one is insensitive to this.

I observed that he remained focused on his work during this period, he sought to reinforce his strengths but also to eliminate certain small faults he may have.

In a very short time, we played 48 hours ago, I didn't see anything different from him in his preparation for the match.

He was obviously satisfied with his performance, like the whole team, but there is no change in behavior.

He is a young player who is very well supervised, with his coach and all the staff around him to point out when there are errors made, on a technical or tactical level or on a lack of concentration,

we have always noted this and we have always talked about it.

And when he performs like against Benfica, we congratulate him, we tell him to continue and that there must be no relaxation, that he must be very demanding in his preparation for the match.

We are not in a transfer window and so I will not talk about it.

There are a lot of matches with very high stakes.

Is there a reflection on a change of organization?

There are always reflections, nothing is set in stone for a coach, we must always adapt to circumstances, performances, poor performances, state of form, injuries... Kim is not yet ready for us rejoin.

We have the absence of Nuno Mendes, but it is not the absence of a left side, we have two, which will encourage me to change the system.

It is not this absence that can lead me to change the system.

(…) Depth management is always difficult.

Would we solve all the problems in this area by changing the system?

This does

is not sure, even if we can think that a player higher in a line (in the middle, editor's note) would put more pressure on the ball carrier in order to avoid being in a comfort zone to raise, Yes surely.

The reflection also relates to the players that I have at my disposal, who work.

Some haven't played much lately and can be a real added value for the team in this system or another.

The only difficulty in changing the system is not the ability of the players to do it, but that we came home at 6 a.m. after the match against Benfica, so we only made a small Thursday session, it was light this morning.

We don't have a lot of sessions to work on.

It's not the absence of defenders that

He is in the group.

He works well, he is serious and performs well in the Youth League, even if we can consider that Ligue 1 is another level, but there is also what he shows on a daily basis.

I had an exchange with him this morning on the pitch encouraging him to keep working, telling him not to give up because it's true that he hadn't appeared with the group yet.

We all observe that he is working well and progressing.

He is the last to arrive in the transfer window, he arrived late, not to say very late.

There is always an incompressible delay in integration, the benchmarks in his family life and the daily work with his partners, which is Ligue 1. He did not play much but I watched his matches as a team national and we know its positioning, which was different with Valencia.

He plays between the lines.

He can play in a three-man midfield or in a more attacking register, between the lines, able to play on the right but rather on the left.

He likes to be on his right foot.

Is there a possibility of seeing it debut tomorrow?

Yes.

Since the start of the season, everyone says it's a hellish schedule, and it's even more the case when you're involved in the European Cup, with the national teams as a bonus.

During the last cut, only four of our players stayed here.

There is very little recovery time.

There are only six days between the two matches against Benfica, it had never happened.

These are matches that generate a lot of mental and physical fatigue.

We try to work as well as possible with as much data as possible with the performance unit.

There are a lot of things organized around the players and the team, in terms of recovery, evaluation of the state of form, prevention of fatigue problems, muscular problems.

But you are automatically confronted with injuries because this sequence is dangerous for the physical state of the players.

Behind, there will still be matches every three days and then most will be the World Cup… Current injuries can make players wonder about the World Cup.

I talk about it quite freely because everyone is in this thinking.

They are competitive, competitive players who want to play it all.

They want to perform well in Ligue 1, the Champions League and the national team.

They put a lot of things in place in their individual organization to be efficient and we support them.

But it is the observation of all the coaches: this calendar is insane.

there will still be matches every three days and then most of them will be at the World Cup… Current injuries may cause players to wonder in view of the World Cup.

I talk about it quite freely because everyone is in this thinking.

They are competitive, competitive players who want to play it all.

They want to perform well in Ligue 1, the Champions League and the national team.

They put a lot of things in place in their individual organization to be efficient and we support them.

But it is the observation of all the coaches: this calendar is insane.

there will still be matches every three days and then most of them will be at the World Cup… Current injuries may cause players to wonder in view of the World Cup.

I talk about it quite freely because everyone is in this thinking.

They are competitive, competitive players who want to play it all.

They want to perform well in Ligue 1, the Champions League and the national team.

They put a lot of things in place in their individual organization to be efficient and we support them.

But it is the observation of all the coaches: this calendar is insane.

speaks about it quite freely because everyone is in this reflection.

They are competitive, competitive players who want to play it all.

They want to perform well in Ligue 1, the Champions League and the national team.

They put a lot of things in place in their individual organization to be efficient and we support them.

But it is the observation of all the coaches: this calendar is insane.

speaks about it quite freely because everyone is in this reflection.

They are competitive, competitive players who want to play it all.

They want to perform well in Ligue 1, the Champions League and the national team.

They put a lot of things in place in their individual organization to be efficient and we support them.

But it is the observation of all the coaches: this calendar is insane.

Pressure, criticism, remarks?

I don't turn on the TV, I don't read the press, I don't turn on the set in the car (smile).

I stay focused and concentrated on my daily work, my relationship with the group, with the staff too.

I try to move quickly from one game to another.

Obviously, we always come back a little on the match that was played.

Between the end of the C1 match and the match tomorrow, there is very little time.

I will therefore quickly switch to Reims.

Regarding Benfica, we will do a longer and more precise analysis before the second match next Tuesday at the Parc des Princes.