Jocelyn Prêcheur, PSG coach: “I expected a complicated match, as always against Fleury, but not necessarily to this extent. The card is a hard blow at the moment but I almost found that we played better with ten than with eleven. It gave us a real boost and behind us, we managed to score this goal. Maybe with a little success, but overall, it’s not undeserved.
It’s the rhythm that I didn’t like, we were perhaps tense, but we didn’t manage to impose a big rhythm, the game was less fluid than usual. It lacked madness. Finally, we really let go when Samoura got kicked out.”
Fabrice Abriel, Fleury coach : “Having already experienced this scenario in the championship, you have to manage a numerical superiority. You have the feeling of being at the right tempo and in the end, you make a little less effort and are a little less technically vigilant defensively, this which gives the opponent the possibility of continuing to be tied in the end and above all, it galvanizes the one who is ten. But it’s true that we would have liked to take advantage of it.
In terms of regrets, I think we always learn. Obviously you have to go to the final often to gain experience and better understand the context of a week with a little more media coverage. You have to know how to manage it. Afterwards, it offers no guarantee. What interests us is to continue to grow this team and this club. The faster we learn, the faster we will return. In four days, we also have an important match (against Montpellier, editor’s note), it’s also a final.”
