After the match we returned with Christophe Parra on the match and the victory of OM against PSG. The opportunity for the Olympian coach to talk about his vision of the game, and the spirit that he believes should inhabit the practice of football including at the highest level.

"What we were saying with the girls before the match was to position this match against the very essence of sport and football, (...) to look for emotions as we might have (...) in a playground. And that's actually what we tried to look for today, to find that emotion that we can have when we're all kids. And I think that's why we play sports, that's why we play football and it's really amazing to live.

For sure, the Cartesian side of things, the way we prepare a game, the game plan, it is also surely what allowed us to win. But to live such emotions and get them deep within yourself and try to tickle, to awaken a little emotion, it's pretty fabulous to live.

(...) At the level of the game plan, we had tried to prepare well that match by reducing spaces, intervals. We had watched the games a lot and we worked a lot. We have prepared a lot, maybe not more than the others and perhaps with more concentration and attention and it is true that the girls have really achieved intellectually and cognitively an extraordinary match.

"Remember that we are promoted"
Yes, beat one of the best French teams and a team that is still in the Champions League and to whom I wish a lot of success in this competition, it is true that it is extraordinary. Remember that we are promoted. Also remember that some saw us back down in D2 when we had a little tricky where it was necessary to adapt to this level at the beginning of the season.

We are not going to make complacency, it's not at all in my habits but here, it shows well that in sport, you have to be patient. It is necessary to work, it is necessary to work, the word work, even if it displeases to many, in any case for me it is important. It is really a great success for the work, the investment of the girls, and also for the club. It was perhaps far from hoping early in the season beat the PSG.

"When it works it's fabulous"
I understood a lot of things for a few days. Sometimes, I have trouble understanding some attitudes in the community and I moved away for that reason. But I tried to think and also find energy and gas and I come back to my playground. I am today in a playground.

Live those moments that are still extraordinary and what's more beautiful than living your passion and try and surround you with people who have the same philosophy, the same thought and the same desire to move forward so when it works it's fabulous. But we know very well that we will also have difficult times and we also know that in these moments, we will be criticized, pointed out, it's part of the system. But anyway we can not take away the work done by the girls and this fabulous moment that we can live today.

We leave a period of three weeks without matches for OM, between the international break and the Coupe de France. Did that give you the time to prepare well for this match and to be able to hold 90 minutes against a team like PSG?
The beauty of sport means there is no truth. There's an alchemy to find. And the alchemy of today, we know very well that it will not be the alchemy of tomorrow. I spoke of emotion, I also spoke of the Cartesian side of things. The sport finally, there is a Cartesian side but at a given moment, it stops. There are parameters that we can not necessarily control. I had more questions about our ability to hold 95 minutes with no competitions during those weeks.

We tried to prepare it in a certain way. (...) [After], that's also the beauty of the sport. it's trying to think, to put all the assets on one's side, to apprehend at best a competition. Was it the best formula? Maybe, but it was still not easy to say 95 minutes against Paris without compet ', I had many questions at that level, but hey, I must believe that I was wrong.

You were surprised, positive, because we realize your players today?
Not surprised, because we live with every day. It's still, thankfully, the work they can do. So surprised, no. But there were still questions about this ability to be able to fight intellectually before talking about physical aspect too and to have this lucidity compared to the game played by the PSG with a capacity to pass on the sides, to play at the same time. interior with Cruz and Boquete always well placed.

And so, intellectually, we would find the resources and open the right drawers to continue to block them, it was a little bit there the question mark that I had but it is also necessary to believe that the emotions also allow you to bring an energy to certain moments that allows you to surpass yourself.

At times, we saw your team go back, but finally the players managed to not be locked in their last thirty meters ...
I can assure you that the game plan has been respected to perfection. Perfection does not exist, excuse me for the term. They have a tad (...) back in the second half. A bit (...) but we also knew, we prepared for that. But hey, still, we can not be too hard on them. I think that even if in certain situations, it could have put us in difficulty but there is always a girl who compensated. Frankly, congratulations to them again.

Victories against Juvisy, Paris. You have a match against Montpellier soon. These are games that you can play released, a bit like bonus matches, gala matches?
It's a game. It's still a game, you have to stay in there. It is also the charm of women's football even if I do not try to oppose anything, the ball is round for everyone, of course. But it's important to stay rooted in this area of ​​the game, to find the energy, the resources you need. We want to talk about "Classico", I do not mind if journalists like to talk about "Classico".

But hey, I'm happy to meet Patrice Lair, who is certainly one of the best women's football educators. I am happy to meet some very high level players, perhaps the best players in the world. And to be able to live these moments, it's still extraordinary and that's why we play sports and we must not forget and I insist on it. Do not forget !