Just after the 1 / 8th final match against Montpellier (1-1) - lost 3-4 on penalties - the Marseille coach, Christophe Parra reacted lucidly on this meeting.



Journalist - What's the hardest thing about this meeting?
The hardest thing is simply defeat, it's the outcome, but in any defeat, you have to find the reasons. It may be what we miss this little detail there, now a few weeks ago, we were not yet able to provide such benefits. It is now six very beautiful benefits. Unfortunately in the six [meetings] there are two defeats, because today we have not lost in regulation time [but on penalties] so we will not count it as a defeat. In the game, it is still since December that we begin to have convictions in the game, approaching the matches, on the mental level. We are able to go to the end too, we must still point out that without a great goalkeeper [adversary] we can even win the game before extra time so I really think there have been very very good things both on the defensive plan that offensive, in the use of the ball, I think there is still an improvement over last weekend (1-0 win against Bordeaux). Today the lights are green. After the moral of the story, a bit like the fables of the fountain, there is still work to be done. When you lead 3-0 in the penlaty, you realize that the team in front, this ability not to give up and to seek victory. That's what we miss but we will go get it.


Journalist - The key to this draw? Is not it the total discipline of these two lines of 4, who did a lot of work ...
Completely. I think there is a key term, these are the "mistakes". We chained for several weeks to avoid them. We must not put the cart before the horse and it is at the end of the ball that we pay the musicians but it is actually what we missed, this small detail, this collective harmony, which was not yet found and that you had to go for a lot of reasons. There in terms of construction, in terms of rigor, I think there is really very clear progress with players and a really good group, we can say today.


Soccer Hearts - We see that your players have really tried to work together on this match ... They became aware just after the first victory against Paris FC of what they missed?
To be conscious of this would be retrograde, that would mean that before they did not make the money, but they always did it, I always said it. We always tried to regulate together with the staff and with the players. To seek this harmony and today to forced work, reflection, exchanges, disputes. It is neither giving, nor receiving but it is participating and I think that today we arrive at this collective participation. It has always existed but it was necessary to make sure that it is coherent.


Hearts of Foot - There is also the return of some players who can be good (Nora Coton Pelagie, Sandrine Bretigny, Charlotte Loze ...)
There were facts that we knew. Yes these are returns that are good, actually. But once again it is the victory above all else, and the productivity, the work that has made us manage today to maltreat Montpellier.


Hearts of Foot - There were also changes during this match that may have made the difference, like Cindy Caputo on the free kick converted by Coton Pelagie for the equalizer?
The players each have their quality, their characteristics, the goal of the game is that they perform, to advance individually and collectively. So today every girl has a role to play in the collective. Everyone moves the group forward, it's a little bit the current strength.


Soccer Hearts - Expecting shots on goal?
I was expecting victory, very honestly.


Journalist - A word about Maelle Lakrar and Fanndís Friðriksdóttir?
Fanndís has a little recurrent worry of adductors but nothing bad, it had to recover. Maelle has a small joint problem following the match last week [against Bordeaux], so she is stopped at INSEP. She does her care.