Just after the victory of the Stade de Reims (4-1) against Villeneuve d'Ascq, small thumb of the sixteenth-of-final of the Coupe de France, Reims coach Amandine Miquel delivered us his impressions.


Your feeling about the meeting?

"Satisfied with the victory already, it is essential. We are happy to go into the eighth-finals. And we can not wait to see the draw to see what awaits us in the next round. "


We spoke a little earlier but we have the impression on this game that you are not necessarily spent with the way ...

"There are 4 to 1 anyway. After that, I think we had little scares in the first half. We score a goal fairly quickly which seems good to me. But we give them a little hope on the one everywhere. It's true that it's a Cup match and you have to be careful against any team. I wish there was not this 1-1 at some point. "

 "After that is the magic of the Cup too. It gave them [Villeneuve d'Ascq] extra strength. And we, it put us a little stress, and the stress is not good for the heart, so I would like if I have less in the next round (laughs).


It did not boost your players this return to the score of the opponents?

" Yes Yes. At 2-1 it allowed to return to the locker room a little more serenely. But at one everywhere in the 40th, I was a little annoyed. We would have liked it to be a little more fluid, and the goals were slow in coming. But in the content it's still interesting on certain phases of the game. "


Looking for some perfection can be said in your players?

"Yes, it's true that I'm maybe a little bit perfectionist. Besides, I think it feels on my players who have a high requirement of themselves. "

"We are third in D2 - second place - the goal is to get as close as possible to this first place. And on these Cup matches, I would have liked more fluidity, faster. After the result is there, and that's the point. "


What has "stuck" then? The synthetic pitch maybe?

"No it's not synthetic because it's still our favorite surface, so it's not even that. I think there was a little bit of analysis time on our part. On the game system, weather conditions, and they should have been able to adapt a little faster. I am not in the idea of ​​having remote controlled players. Once I have given my instructions, I like them to be able to find the solutions and analyze the problems that the adversary poses to them. After, at half-time, it was regulated. "

"At the half-time we regulated some imperfections, not necessarily individual, more on what we asked for and what they produced that was not in adequacy. After the end of the match, usually when we win we try to stay positive. We rarely do [analysis] hot and debrief in the week - with video - action per action. We try to reach the goal of producing a beautiful game, with few touches [of balls], to have a game in possession. Today, we narrowly missed passing and side changes. We carried the ball too much, and that's not what we ask. "


Would you have liked it to go faster?

"Yes, I wish it went faster and in fewer keys. If I have such a high expectation is that I think we have the players for that. But sometimes they put themselves a little too much comfort by circulating systematically while we could skip some steps to break lines faster. "

Do we have the impression that you already educate them for the D1?

"We never know, we must not waste time. So yes, the goal for us is clear, it is to go to D1 as soon as possible. So if this is the season so much better, if it's next season it's good too. After yes, I think you have to be armed. It is a young group too, there are many small errors of technical correctness, of youth, of behavior also, where sometimes one claims for keys totally useless things. I think we must be able to erase all these small imperfections if we want to reach the D1, and stay there. Because this is also after the biggest difficulty. But I think we have a high quality workforce, and since they are young, we want to teach them the methods right now. "


Today, Hélène Fercocq wearing the armband, what did you think?

"Yes it is true that we made adjustments. Lately it was rather Giorgia Spinelli the captain but there, she did not play. We gave it to Helen because we want her to be more confident. And that she is able to federate the group around her. She's an international U20 so she's a player with some experience. It was like an exercise for her today, to be able to take the role seriously, to reframe, encourage, take responsibility and I think it was not bad. She did a good game. "


You have the label Stade de Reims, it puts perhaps a little more pressure, want to do better?

" Yes. It is true that we have a little want to reconnect with the history of women's football in Reims and this group of pioneers who had won everything in the 75s. We want to rise to their height. They are still there, on the edges of the fields. They come to see us, and we would like, yes, to live up to this team at the time. They even won the Club World Cup, set up at the time. Without saying that we want to win the Champions League, already try to reach the top of the table D2 and if we can go into D1 very well, and stay there to improve a little image of women's football in Reims. "