The reaction of Hervé Didier after the match lost 3-0 on the lawn of Juvisy. The opportunity to talk about the match, what may have missed the side of Saint-Etienne but also upcoming appointments for the Green at the end of the season.

"We held the game until the beginning of the second half on this corner. We had been endangered practically only on corners or on set pieces of kicks and then this one was badly negotiated. And when we lose 1-0 against Juvisy it's difficult after getting back into the game, especially since we chained with a bad investment from us by hitting Gaëtane Thiney the goal, which has a very good shot. So give him this chance, it was a risk and so after 2-0 it's complicated. Afterwards, it was difficult to get out really, to go forward. We had an opportunity at the end, we hit the post but it was not enough to worry this Juvisy team.

On the difficulty to chain more than two / three passes
We were weak technically on that match and when we are weak technically against teams like that, we can not go. So even if we have the will, if we have lots of things ... We must have this will but we must have a technical quality that we have not had in the first half set aside on the end of the first half - time when we started to try to build, to keep the ball, to have the possession a little, a little more anyway, not to swing the balls in front. And that's where we were better, we could get out balloons. And I think it's super important to have this technical quality, that we are able to have but we did not have on this match in general.

How to explain these difficulties?
"(...) We were coming out of two difficult matches precisely on that level. Montpellier where we will win 1-0, the girls were at the end of what they could do. Bordeaux where we play ten almost the whole game so it put us a little in the red maybe too. And to repeat this type of effort is not easy and it is even less when you are tired and when you are in trouble as we have been in the first two games. This is an explanation, it's not "the Explanation" but afterwards to be good technically, you have to be on the right supports, you have to be a little dynamic, you have to have a little physical freshness and I think that we did not have it on that match.

You also have absentees on this match, especially in the defensive sector (Chavas, Boishardy, Carage) ...
"We had to overhaul our staff a bit. It's players, like Lucie Pingeon too who is injured, so players who were holders before getting hurt so we had to overhaul a little bit of it and it's true that the girls who came back, who came to compensate These absences may have had a little less playing time and physically struggling. (...)

We have big matches coming, we will play in Lyon. After we play Soyals late match. Then we will make our Cup of France semi-final against Paris, and then we receive Montpellier and we receive Metz. So we have a series of difficult, interesting, thrilling matches. And we have to use all our staff to be able to perform in all those matches trying to stall on matches like Soyaux or as the semi-finals of the Coupe de France which are matches maybe still more important than others.

On the management of the end of the season between the championship but also the meeting in the Coupe de France against Paris.
(...) We have key matches that are matches like Soyaux and Metz, it's matches of "our championship" in quotation marks, we used to say that, but here we have matches hope to win anyway. And then there are gala matches. Lyon is a gala match, we want to figure well too, the result is perhaps less important because if we do something it would be a bonus and it would be unexpected (...) So we will make our match and we'll see.

But it's true that the Soyaux match and the Paris match are two important matches, one for the championship and the other because a semi-final of the Coupe de France is not taken lightly. (...) Anyway we have nothing more to lose since already when we played Montpellier, most people said to us: "It's good, you are eliminated". We have qualified, so now we will go to Paris and we will see what happens. So for us it's just a bonus and happiness for the girls to make a semi-final.