The straightforward reaction of Christophe Parra, coach of Olympique de Marseille after the lost match against Fleury counting for the 18th day of D1 (0-1).
"I think a lot of disappointment, a lot of frustration. I think it's certainly one of the best performances we've had on the season. Unfortunately it is also the image of the difficulties that we have met, to cash goals that are largely avoidable and when we see the number of opportunities we managed to create on the second half but we can not score ...
I think Football comes down to that. At some point to win you have to score goals and you have to take as few as possible. If we have to analyze the match, frankly in the spirit, in the commitment, the girls have put a lot of honor through this match and they are not rewarded unfortunately. There you have to score to win and the match boils down to that. It's a shame when you invest so much, when you try to restore x months of work, it's a pity. Fleury came to defend, bravo to them, they won their victory but it's not necessarily the best team that wins. "
The victories of Rodez, Guingamp, Fleury in this day, against Marseille who lost
I have not seen the results of the opposing teams at all and at some point as I say, it's up to us to win the matches. And when you do not win them you put yourself alone in difficulty. After as I have often said throughout the season, what is difficult is when you do not create opportunities. We created it during a good part of the season, but unfortunately we do not manage to concretize them. The moral of this story is that creating opportunities is good but it does not advance and it does not win matches.
Following this end of the season for OM
The speech is clear (he shows the logo of the OM flocked on his jacket Adidas) I think it is "Right to the point". I heard Paris here, Paris there, ok there's no problem, I have no animosity towards Paris (in the first leg between the two teams, OM had led 2-0 at halftime PSG, before being beaten 2-5 in the second half) but we represent a club, we represent a history, the history of the women's section of Olympique de Marseille and even more important the history of the Olympique from Marseille to the end is my state of mind. It's also how I built myself and grew up. We will do our utmost to proudly honor our colors and especially the story that started seven years ago, I recall it at the lowest level of the scale.
You tried to be very offensive in this encounter with a trio with three in front, Traoré / Alidou D'Anjou in tip and Viviane Asseyi who clinched.
We were in a 4-4-2, so there were two attackers and two players in the hall. I think that very sincerely the match is not lost at this level. I think he is unfortunately lost in the opportunity / goals ratio. This is where we have failed, it's not so much in the animation. The animation we had really prepared, we had prepared two game plans, we knew there was going to be wind ... that's it. It's not there [on the strategy] that the game is lost, the game is lost on the goal we have unfortunately cashed and we should have avoided and the opportunities we have failed to materialize. I think this picture unfortunately the season. The behavior of the girls was still there.
Satisfaction with its players
I am very satisfied with their performance. So a coach who loses and who says he is very satisfied, yes yes I am very satisfied with my players. When you do not show an inclined to represent something, a story, a club, a project of the game is where I get angry and I get upset but again it's not at this level today hui.
The change with the entry of Mickaella Cardia in the second period
Yes after the changes, we will not redo all the details of the game but the idea of finding a synthesis, at least mine, may be that we will not share it all but here I have summarized for me the two points that summarizes defeat today in my opinion.
Christophe Parra (OM): "It's not there [on the strategy] that the game is lost"
Published on April 2, 2018 at 3:13 AM
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