They are happy Albigensian coaches we found at the end of the match gleaned on the smallest margin against Fleury (1-0). A short victory enough to climb two places in the rankings, from 10th to 8th place and in the goal of maintenance.


Patrice Garrigues

Your reaction to hot on this match, this victory is important?

Yes a great pleasure to leave Fleury with the three points of course, especially since the result is not stolen. Because the number of chances we had, we must kill the game much earlier and it could have avoided all this tension and frustration on the part of Fleury at the end of the game. After that, the girls responded well to what we had prepared, to our expectations and so it was seen on the ground. This is a big satisfaction, especially since we still looked behind us [ranking]. And then we saw that Marseille had lost [2-0 against LOSC], that Rodez had drawn [2-2 against Bordeaux] so for us it's a small step closer to maintaining.


You make the double against Fleury, since you win the first leg 1-0 and today the return match. We felt it was important as a match for the team?

It was very important, because now we are in the "money time", there are fewer and fewer matches and all points will be decisive, especially against opponents, who are "direct". It was a capital match [to win]. Especially in number of points, we were not very good because we chained two cons-performance, so we were a little in a bad dynamic, a bad spiral. We came here with ambition without really knowing where we put our feet, so it's a great pleasure [this win].


About Pilar Khoury's goal

This kind of action, we found it many times in the game. Face-to-face in the game, we had several and I think we could honestly put one or two goals more.


You have "spoiled" several opportunities?

That is true. We must fold the game much earlier, I am convinced, I would say that this is the negative point of this game. After we're not going to be too demanding, we leave Fleury with the three points, that's fine. But on this kind of direct confrontation, you have to kill the match much earlier. Especially since in the past [in this season] we had some negative experiences, we got back against Soyaux, we take a goal at the last minute against Bordeaux, we know that our end of matches can be complicated and staying at 1-0 like that for so long is getting into the delicacy.


Théodore Genoux

It is a beautiful victory I think today for you?

Already I think it is deserved compared to the frank situations we had, which were more numerous than Fleury. We had a game plan defensive enough to block the relationship Amani and Lavogez. I think we did it well, we did not see a lot of passes between the two. Afterwards we knew that on fast attacks, they were fragile defensively because they took a lot of goals on counterattack, with a very slow defense. The only regret is that we did not kill the match. I think at the beginning of the first half, we can have 2 or 3-0 for us and the match would have been easier.


How do you explain the lack of offensive success?

We have a problem of efficiency, I think that if we were more efficient, we would be 5th, because against Bordeaux or Lille we had opportunities that we have not managed to put in the bottom. We were a little shot on the end against Bordeaux and this time the luck turned for us. This first goal we scored was good for us. After that it was clear that I found that we were consistent defensively and offensively on this match so I am very happy with this match.


You had won the go, you win the return, you support a little more your superiority on Fleury?

Yes that's good, what's good is that Fleury is a club that puts a lot of resources, while we have less. It also shows that with work, we can get by.

We have a group of girls who are progressing and who have made a lot of progress. It's a personal pride and for the group too. We had prepared this meeting during the last three weeks, fiercely, we made a lot of videos so it's the reward of all the staff and the whole group too. I put the 25 girls who are training [in this success].

We feel that there is really a homogeneity in the group this season.

We have a big solidarity, you've seen it. We play for a whole club, we play for lots of volunteers, we play for an entity, the city of Albi is proud to be in D1 and we have to keep up. We could not afford to miss today and we managed our bet.


Where does the song end in the field?

I am not pro singing on the field, I think we must remain humble in the victory. After you have young players, 18/19, month I have a little more perspective, I am coach so I think not the same way. After me I also lost against teams who also sang on the field but that's not why I attacked them.


For you the maintenance is acquired today or it is still fragile anyway?

I advocate humility so long as it is not mathematically acquired ... I am confident from the beginning, I think we have the qualities to maintain. There we took a step further, we took points compared to Marseille, compared to Rodez, compared to Bordeaux. Lille won so we go to 8th place, we were 10th, it's more consistent with the work we do, it's good. It's going to be a psychological war right to the end. There next week we receive Marseille so it will be hot until the end.