Granollers – MHB: “We showed experience”, “good to know how to win away”, post-match reactions

Valentin Porte, captain of Montpellier: “I was expecting this kind of match a little bit. From experience, matches in Spain are always complicated. It’s not easy to gain confidence and exploit your fast game. I find that there- above, we showed experience, normally, in fast play, that’s our strength. We saw that we were perhaps taking risks. It’s a team that plays very quickly too, which scores. half of their goal on the fast play I think that in the second half, we really showed experience. It was not the best match, but we came across a very good goalkeeper too. It’s a European Cup match. You have to know how to win them. I remember that we won a complicated match.”

“We are not going to win all our matches by 12 goals”

Erick Mathé, coach of Montpellier: “‘I said we weren’t going to win all our 12-goal games, as was the case recently. But even if we don’t play our best game, it’s good to know how to win it, especially away from home.We used the necessary weapons to be able to win this match, when we could have scattered, because we missed 15 shots, so that’s a lot. We lost 13 balls, that’s a lot too. Despite that, we managed to win, and put at 24 goals a team which had the best attack in a while, in any case which scored a lot of goals. It’s still satisfying.
Defensively, we held on well. And then, on the offensive play, we fell into their trap a bit. Despite that, we managed to win this away match. In the European Cup, we know it’s never easy.”

Karl Konan, Montpellier defender: “OIt took a while to widen the gap. And in the end, we leave with four. But it took a lot of time. There was a lot of waste, I think, in both sectors of the game, but we knew, with the experience we have gained over two years now, to manage the match properly. There are still things to correct. We will do that internally, but we can be satisfied with taking these two points from Granollers. It wasn’t easy.“