This Sunday, November 1st, the Paris Saint-Germain received and beat Saint-Étienne on the score of 3-0 at the Charléty stadium, on behalf of the eighth day of the D1 Female. The result, however, does not reflect the face of the match because the victory in Paris was long to take shape.

The Parisian eleven presented, as often lately, had young players like Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Ghoutia Karchouni and Hawa Cissoko. A usual rotation but also forced because Jessica Houara, Cristiane, Caroline Seger and Lisa Dahlkvist were absent for injuries or for personal reasons.

Parisian domination is instant from the first minutes of play and will soon be fruitful.

In the 6th minute, the midfielder Etienne Rose Lavaud, fouls Laure Boulleau in the penalty area, which gives rise to a penalty for PSG.

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Sabrina Delannoy takes the penalty, misses it, but retches the ball and scores the first goal. 1-0 for PSG in the 7th minute.

From this first goal, we say that Paris will embark on a fairly broad victory, and well we are wrong.

Obviously Parisians dominate and have opportunities, but they fail to materialize, facing a very defensive Saint-Etienne team, playing in 5-4-1, but achieving interesting counter-attacks.

Anja Mittag twice (20 'and 27') see her attempts both stopped by the sitter or past the cages of the "Green".

Same observation for Lindsey Horan (37 'and 44'), who can not fool the goalkeeper, Mylene Chavas.

On the side of ASSE, a real dangerous action through the attacking Sarah Palacin in the 29th minute, which steals the ball in the feet of Sabrina Delannoy, but which unfortunately sees the Parisian goalkeeper, Katarzyna Kiedrzynek, stop her shoot.

1-0 at half-time, we will not have more.

The second period is rather similar to the first, that is to say that the Parisian dominate, get opportunities, but still do not materialize.

The first opportunity will come from the Brazilian Erika, positioned in midfield rather than in central defense. Erika hit the goal off the box but her attempt was pushed back by the Saint-Etienne goalkeeper in the 51st minute.

Five minutes later, it is a double post that prevents the PSG to double the stake. The Paris corner is taken by Sabrina Delannoy but the ball hits the left post of the "Vertes" for the first time, then in a scramble in the penalty area, hits the right post of Mylène Chavas. A lack of luck for Parisian women.

The Stéphanoises take a little more confidence and try to equalize. Sarah Palacin hits the goal in the 70th minute, but her shot is stopped by the PSG goaltender. The equalizer was not far for Saint-Etienne.

Yet Paris will make the "break" thanks to a mistake Etienne in the 79th minute. Goalkeeper Mylène Chavas will push her balloon a little too much, then lose her duel to Marie-Laure Delie. The ball will end in the feet of Kosovare Asllani who, still outside the surface, will score in empty goal. 2-0 for PSG.

In the next minute, Kosovare Asllani launched Marie-Antoinette Katoto in depth, but the latter misses her face to face with the keeper of Saint-Etienne. Marie-Antoinette Katoto (below) will not mark this Sunday, November 1st, the day of her 17th birthday!

Until the 90th minute, we will still have the opportunity to see shy attempts that will not help.

In added time, the Parisian women will close the chapter with a third goal scored by Erika, who lobe the right foot, very gently, Mylene Chavas. 3-0 for PSG.

Paris Saint-Germain won 3-0 against Saint-Etienne, but it was not a victory as simple as it may seem. Parisians will have to do more, much more, next week in La Roche-sur-Yon, Saturday, November 7, but especially against Örebro on November 11 for the 8th finals of the Champions League.

Note that Hawa Cissoko came out of the locker room on crutches, while Jessica Houara and Cristiane should surely come back against La Roche-sur-Yon. Caroline Seger and Lisa Dahlkvist will always be uncertain.

As for Saint-Etienne, it will be necessary to recover against the VGA Saint-Maur on Sunday, November 8, because the Stéphanoises are in a complicated situation, tenth in the classification and therefore relegable.

Feedback from coaches

Farid Benstiti (PSG coach): "After the return of the internationals and the injuries, it was absolutely necessary to win, it was the most important. The content was something I wanted but after the first 45 minutes we were a little worse. We should have scored more goals or at least created more opportunities in the first half. What is paradoxical is that we had more frank chances in the second half when we were worse. We miss a lot of players, but we were in a dynamic of good play and good results for 90 minutes, but against Saint-Etienne we stayed on 45 minutes. We will continue to work on these negative points so that La Roche-sur-Yon is a stepping stone for the match against Örebro. "

"A normal return of Marie-Laure Delie and Kosovare Asllani in the group. You have to keep them concerned about the goals of the club. That's the lesser of it. It is entirely logical and in the order of things. "

"Young people are always jagged. What is expected of them is regularity but it will not happen overnight. I am still satisfied with the match of Marie-Antoinette Katoto, who turned 17 today. I found it full of qualities, even if in front of the goal it lacks a little experience. We are patient with her. "

Didier Hervé (coach of Saint-Etienne): "The 1-0 lasted long enough then we take the second, which is a little cap, and especially at a time when we took out the head of the water. At that time we said we were going in the right direction and that we could perhaps surprise the PSG. Besides, we started to start things on the bench to go a little higher, but here we took that cap goal in the 79th minute. It hurts and it breaks us a bit in what we thought we were doing. We punished ourselves. "

"In front of big teams, you have to find the right balance. We want to go and score this goal but if we discover, we get punished right away. We were in this imbalance and we felt we could do a little more. We had one or two chances to score even at the end, at 2-0, but it was a bit late, the spring was broken. It's a shame that our goalkeeper makes this mistake, a mistake of youth so it will serve him for the future because it is a good goalkeeper. "

"We drew with Juvisy, we were really happy. We lost 1-0 in the 86th minute against Montpellier. We took five against Lyon, as much as the PSG and we were happy. There we lose only 3-0 against PSG. But we are not satisfied with these results because in the end we made a draw. We are able to compete against these teams, but the problem is when we meet teams within our reach because we can not make the difference, because we may be discussing these meetings a different way. These are our problems. "

Photo credit: Nelson Fatagraf