Some situations are sometimes complicated to explain, sometimes there are just no answers to our questions. These are the laws of football. But Metz is experiencing a very difficult season now and yet despite what some people think, the players as well as the coach do not give up, they continue to believe, to work as hard as at the beginning of the season while learning from the go. This is the strength of a women's football club, which often has to fight with few solutions within its workforce, not to mention the means. After Metz / Guingamp we talked with coach messin, David Fanzel. Testimony.

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"we moved a team that is top of the league table"

After the equalizer, you breathe, it's a pretty satisfying match for you?
Yes more than satisfactory anyway, because we moved a team that is top of the league table. We still created the opportunities, that's it ... It has been proven even today that we had our place in D1 and the girls showed that they would not let go. We knew it was going to be a tough match, but we did not resign ourselves, the proof is that we equalized. We had two or three chances, situations to win the match. I am proud of girls and those they do. Now as I tell you, I do not know what I have to do to get the ball back to the bottom (smile). Here. Now after the goal, we felt that we had taken over the label we were put [to relegate], we managed to regain confidence and especially we had this burst of pride and then we have our substitutes who do us good, who brought us good and Lea Khelifi who scored his first goal in D1. Here are a lot of satisfactions today. (laughs) I can not do a miracle either. But proud here [of being with this team].

Because Guingamp is a tough team since the first leg of the championship?
Yes it is a team that has stood up to the big teams, which went bother Montpellier. It's really a top team, which is 5 / 6th, which does not take a lot of goals. That's against her, we knew how to create opportunities, by varying our game. But as I say, the work is always rewarded with a victory, so it's good we draw, everyone is happy, I too am happy (smile). But that's a big disappointment, for the girls always, because here they work hard, they cling ... They say that work pays. The only thing is like I say (smile) I do not have the date and the game.

"There's youth, there's a future, that's why it would be nice to be able to stay"

The goal of Lea Khelifi he will be able to launch you a little more in this state of mind to let go?
Yes it is a satisfaction because we are able to score goals in D1 so it's already a good thing (smile). It means that the progression in 2017 is good and above all we have young people, like Lea Khelifi (99) Christy Gavory (98), Heloise Mansuy (20), Juliane Gathrat (20), Melike Pekel (21) who is young too. I mean, there's youth, there's a future, that's why it would be nice to be able to stay. Now we are going to say he is crazy the coach of Metz, he still thinks he can maintain himself. I believe in it so much that mathematically, we will have this possibility. I would like for small that we can maintain to continue this progress.

"The Coupe de France is our sunbeam"

Your next match is the Coupe de France (1/8 finals) this Sunday against Rodez. It's complicated to play twice in the week?
Yeah, three times, three times (Sunday, February 12 against Soyaux, Wednesday, February 15 against Guingamp and Sunday, February 19 between Metz and Rodez). Since February 2, we are going every three days [one match]. Yes good here after, it will allow me to run, there are other girls in the squad that will come into play. The Coupe de France is our sunbeam and it will allow to play all the world. This is a match that will allow me to give pleasure to girls who give themselves to training and who play not always or not at all.

"I have never been on the field to draw or lose"

You think to have the same to see a better result against Rodez?
Yes, yes, I have never been on the field to draw or lose, so it will be the same [intensity level in this game]. I hope the girls will have the pride to prove to me that I was wrong not to play them today or last week. But here I hope to just reward my group who went to qualify at Yzeure (0-1).

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