” Optimistic “. PSG coach Luis Enrique assured Tuesday November 5 that the match against Atlético Madrid in the Champions League was not “not a decisive match” for qualification while Paris is 19e of the classification of the League phase and that its calendar is “arduous”.
“If tomorrow (Wednesday), one of the teams loses but wins the next four matches, they will qualify in the 24. No, it is not a decisive match »he assured at a press conference adding: “That it is important and that we want to win, no doubt. If we look at our calendar, it is more difficult but no one knows what will happen in football. »
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According to him, “the feeling is almost the same as for the other days of the Champions League: optimism, confidence and the very clear objective of taking the three points. »
“We advance match after match”
With a complicated schedule (Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Salzburg, Stuttgart) and only four points collected in three matches, which places his team 19e place in the classification of the League phase, the Spanish technician recognizes “we don’t really know what’s going to happen, we concentrate on the match” from Wednesday.
“We advance match after match”explained defender Willian Pacho for his part. “We follow our idea of the game and have confidence in what the coach offers us. »
Asked about the offensive ineffectiveness of PSG (two goals scored including one csc in three matches), Luis Enrique affirmed that his team “works every week to improve our efficiency”.
“We can't say 'we're going to buy a player who scores so many goals', we do with our team and the players who are best placed to complete an action”he insisted, while his team trained almost in full on Tuesday morning at the PSG Campus, where only Lucas Hernandez was absent while Gonçalo Ramos, returning from injury, trained separately.
“We still have the same face. If I refer to the facets of the game that I want to control, I am very satisfied with my team. I will sign for the same statistics in attack or defense as against Girona (1-0) or PSV (1-1) but another result »he said, knowing that Paris, more effective offensively in Ligue 1 (29 goals in ten days), is at the top of its national championship with six points ahead of its leading pursuers.
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