At the end of the Coupe de France match between Montpellier and Saint-Etienne, gleaned by the Amazons, we exchanged with the coach Etienne Hervé Didier to have his reaction. From Rose Lavaud, through Audrey Chaumette to Mylène Chavas, it's a team that went to get this 1-0 win in the Coupe de France against Montpellier this Sunday.

"We were done with what we could do and the girls were rewarded."

So we could follow from a distance your match against Montpellier, we can say that it is a feat anyway?
Yes we can say that yes yes, because when we play Montpellier Montpellier in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, it's not won, far from it. We knew that to win this match, we had to put the necessary ingredients, that is to say the fighting spirit, the determination, the aggressiveness and then have a little success to score a goal and not in take. This is what happened this Sunday, with a lot of work girls in these areas, combativeness, self-sacrifice. There were girls who ended up with cramps, we were done with what we could do and the girls were rewarded.

We saw the beginning of the face of the match, the two teams were watching a lot and we saw Montpellier slightly on the reserve, with Saint-Etienne who was a little above sometimes. You noticed it?
Maybe not above but in any case, we made them embarrassed, we tried to make a median block, to push them to the fault, to prevent them from combining, we also knew that the Montpellier played long in our backs . All this we could prevent because we were urgent about this team and then we had an opportunity at the end of the first half, an opportunity we transformed.

We also knew that to endanger Montpellier, we had to play in the axis, towards the defenders axial. Without being bad, it's still a little weak point we will say and then it worked because we are at the limit of offside and with the speed of Rose Lavaud, she left, she made the difference and she scored that goal in the 41st minute. The hardest thing remained to be done, because there was a half-time and we knew that Montpellier would necessarily react.

Yes we saw that they made three big changes with the entries of Cayman, Gauvin and Dekker?
Yes, they brought in Gauvin, Cayman ... We continued to play, we knew it would be difficult but we did what we did in the first half, we tried not to back down, to stay sufficiently high so as not to be endangered. We had two or three hot occasions in the match, we could have taken a goal but we were lucky that it misses and last action Mylène Chavas who stopped the game. Mylène is a good goalkeeper, she is a great goalkeeper so she did her job. In addition to that we were missing two players who were holders in our group with Maelle Garbino and Lucie Pingeon, who came back injured selection (France B team - Istria Cup). The girls who replaced these two players showed that our group was of quality, so it's good for the future. Despite our difficult start to the season, with a tenth place that does not represent our involvement, we will try to make a second best part of the season, it is still possible even if we grilled some joker. We did not recruit players in the inter-season, we kept our group as early in the season in fact.

Photo: Nelson Fatagraf