This Saturday at 5 p.m. (broadcast on beIN SPORTS) Paris Saint-Germain (1st) faces Lens (7th) at Stade Bollaert as part of the 18th day of Ligue 1 2024-2025. On Lensois.comFlorian Sotoca spoke about this meeting and the Parisian opponent. He spoke of the ambitions and the importance of preparing well against PSG.
Sotoca « We are always ambitious, we remain an ambitious team and especially since we are at Bollaert on Saturday”
“Florian Sotoca, you are going to face PSG again this season, and even if the club is still undefeated in the league, do you think it is feasible to beat them on Saturday at Bollaert?
Of course, we are always ambitious, we remain an ambitious team and especially since we are at Bollaert on Saturday. We have already shown in the Coupe de France that we are capable of doing something. I hope that will be the case on Saturday, but we learned a lot from the first match where it was still very difficult at the Parc (1-0), even if it was not a big defeat. I think our match in the Coupe de France was successful.
So in the first half, yes, we didn’t have much of the ball, but they didn’t have a lot of chances. On the other hand, in the second half, we knew how to exploit the ball better and we knew how to put them in difficulty. We know that it doesn’t matter, so ultimately, we are quite proud of what we did in this Coupe de France match. It will be up to us to reproduce a bit of the same match.
Sotoca « I don’t know if it’s really the system that will cause the most problems in Paris”
RC Lens is capable of playing with four or three at the back. Which scheme of the two best allows you to keep the ball and resist the pressure of a team like Paris?
I don’t know if it’s really the system that will cause the most problems in Paris, whether we play with four or three. It will be more our state of mind, our desire to move forward, our desire to hurt them that will be the most important. The coach has an idea in mind, he submitted it to us yesterday and today. But the most important thing is us, what we are going to put on the field, the ingredients we are going to bring. »
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Lens at home is tough. PSG will have a lot to do especially as the players will have the lead in City. We can say that it is a good test, because a victory (again) against Lens away would have an interesting flavor. The resulting confidence could help Parisians prepare in the best possible way.
On the system side, nothing is resisting PSG at the moment in France. We must therefore count on a concentrated Parisian team, ready to break everything, once again, to maintain the pressure in Ligue 1. We must recognize that Will Still is capable of doing great things against PSG and Luis Enrique’s team will not be able to win without giving their best on the field. We can’t wait to see the sequence of matches. Paris has its destiny in hand, we must not let it go.
