“
We're not going to play hypocrites... We're going to try to do the best we can, but it's the trophy of a lifetime that is coming.
“Kylian Mbappé did not make the language of wood Wednesday, after the victory on the ground of Juventus (1-2).
"
We will try to give our best but people can't blame us for thinking about it
," he added.
The World Cup (November 20-December 18) is approaching and it is already on everyone's mind.
A necessarily complicated equation for the coaches, and Christophe Galtier in the lead, while PSG and its many internationals have an appointment with the "
fresh, sparkling and playful
» Lorient team on Sunday (1 p.m.), during the 14th day of Ligue 1. The penultimate match before the break for the reigning French champions.
There will still be the reception of AJ Auxerre, in eight days, in Paris.
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This requires skill, knowing that the workforce is necessarily a little " out of
breath
" due to an overloaded schedule.
"
There is an exchange between the technical staff and the medical and performance unit who work a lot.
The club has developed tools to more accurately measure the physical and mental state of players.
Afterwards, in my way of managing, there are a lot of exchanges, sometimes informal, in which the players can indulge more easily.
But there are also formal exchanges on the state of form, this fear and I integrate it on the workload, the team compositions and what the match could be in general, between the outgoing and the incoming .
Obviously, there is this World Cup parameter, it exists.
And even more when the Champions League (passed), when we switch back to the championship and when we have played every three days since the start of the season.
“Says the Parisian coach, who will be deprived of Leo Messi, Presnel Kimpembé, Keylor Navas and Fabian Ruiz in Brittany.
The best way to prepare well for a good World Cup is to play hard, without restraint.
Christophe Galtier
And to continue: “
There is this fear, this apprehension, but we must reassure them, tell them that there is everything they do before and after training, invisible work, and also to trust us. on the workload, the load of playing time, but we must not hide, it would be a mistake, that players can have this fear of not going to the World Cup.
I often tell them: "when you play, play hard, without restraint".
It's the best way to prepare well for a good World Cup.
»
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Remarks made in front of the PSGTV cameras and which the 56-year-old coach then detailed at a press conference this Saturday, at Camp des Loges, not without having specified "
that no coach (has) asked for (him ) ask to protect so-and-so
”.
“
You have to convince them that playing is the best preparation.
If we decompensate, we can even injure ourselves on a small training session
”, he assures, not without recalling that World Cup or not, “
the obligation of result and winning
” is always present at PSG.
The experience of elders
If he has no international past as a player, Christophe Galtier is not afraid to go fishing for information.
This is what he did by exchanging with former players "
who had chosen the option of slowing down a few matches before a Euro, a World Cup
", coming out with certainties.
“
Some were injured in preparation and did not perform well because they had lost their rhythm and slacked off
,” he summarizes.
Conclusion ?
"
You have to stay focused and play
."
The former coach of ASSE, Lille and Nice is however not stubborn.
"
If a player arrives and tells me "I don't want to play", he doesn't play.
It will benefit someone else.
It's also up to me to bring a dynamic to those who haven't played a lot.
But if a player tells me "I don't want to play, I'm scared" and through the exchange and what I can tell him I see that there is more than a big detention, this player s 'dismiss and it benefits another
,' he admits.
In the meantime, place to the game and to a match that Galtier expects "
very rhythmic
" between the Parisian leader and the fourth in the L1 classification.