After Rodez's 5-1 defeat by PSG in the eighth-finals of the Coupe de France, Grégory Mleko delivers his impressions. Despite everything, the coach of the Rafettes not only retain the negative. He also returns to the injury of Julie Peruzzetto and talks about the end of the season that awaits his team.


Julie Peruzzetto, out of injury 10 minutes from the end

She slumped after her release before Delie's goal. And in my opinion, it feels not good .. The ligaments .. We saw the doc there, we will do the MRI and we'll see. [...]

Hoping that it is not too serious for Julie [Peruzzetto] at the level of the ligaments even if it is not encouraging. We'll do the exams and we hope she can finish the season with us. She is an important player, experienced. We will say that we are not too optimistic but we will see in the week and we hope that the doc was wrong.


On the match against PSG

We are still satisfied with what we have proposed, especially in the second period. We have reshuffled the squad and it has allowed to play the entire workforce. We let some owners rest and did some rotations but we knew it was going to be complicated. We come out of little positives on this match [despite the score] that will serve us next week against Lille.


On the calendar waiting for Rodez

We have 4 decisive games with Lille. We go to Albi, we get Fleury and we go to Marseille. They are able to go for support. Must get started, pick up very quickly, winning at home. We wish them [PSG] a good career in the Coupe de France, to finish the championship. We need to be concerned about it because it will be tight until the end and no team will want to let go.

We see that Albi won at Fleury but lose against Marseille, we lose at the last minute against Soyaux, we made a draw against Bordeaux. It will be played to the end and it is up to us to do the necessary work to save itself. We have the team to escape, I think there is room, and we must continue to work. We must not let go and as we say, it will be played to the mind.


The most important thing is to work in defense. Is this a bit your instructions?

Yes, it is true that in the last matches, we scored more goals but we take more. On this match, we knew that it was going to be complicated especially with the hinge apart Manon Guitard, we have Anne-Sophie Ginestet and Anaïs Chareyron which was the first game as a holder from the beginning. Anaïs arrived at the truce, Anne-Sophie returned from injury to the Crusaders, she made some appearances in Cup and also played with the reserve. There were positive things from them for their first 90-minute match against Paris. We have ideas for the future and it is up to us to work to the end. They were told not to let go, and we have to go for support because he will not come alone.


This goal scored early in the second period is encouraging for you?

Yes, it still motivates, we rarely score against big teams. We scored a goal by creating 3 occasions, the lob which passes by little, we made a pole, on the second [period]. On the first it was very complicated because we really suffered. The first goal puts us in bad shape, we really pained on the centers because there was quality on their part. But it is in the state of mind, we did not let go, we worked until the end and we were rewarded at the beginning of the second half. Damage to this last goal because we could do 1-1 against Paris Saint-Germain in the second half. We know that mentally is always encouraging for the future.