After the PSG / ASSE semifinal (4-1), we also exchanged with Hervé Didier, the Etienne coach who has regrets but who keeps the good aspects of this Coupe de France, as having arrived at this stage of the competition with his team. With the goal now to get back into the championship to ensure the maintenance. Interview.


You were not on the bench today?
I was suspended after an altercation with referees following the injury of Maelle Garbino in Lyon.

Your feeling about this match?
First of all I have the feeling that we started this match rather well, the first fifteen minutes was good, that's what we had planned to do. It was a quarter of an hour where we have embarrassed the Paris Saint-Germain and it is true that subsequently this first goal has of course disturbed us and we lacked technical accuracy in our raises. We lost a lot of balls, and the least ball was well exploited by the PSG. After we take these three goals in the first half. In the second half, they dropped their foot and we were a little better, we tried to be better technically, even if there is still too much waste for my taste. We have no regrets except to not have had this technical accuracy in the first half.

On the third goal, there is not a question on a hand in the surface?
If there's a hand in the surface. The referee has decided otherwise but it is true that the hand is a little away from the body and it prevents the ball to take his direction, but it's like that. After Paris makes his counter attack and there is the third goal.

Apart from the problems that were mentioned yesterday, was the mind missing today too?
Yes, when you lose 3-0 is difficult to come back but I think they had left to do something good early in the meeting and the first quarter of an hour I liked. In any case for once we did what we said. Usually on the last games we did, it was not like that. The intentions were there, after I think we had a very very young team. I brought an 18-year-old player (Lou Mery), it was his first match in D1, in the semi-final of the Coupe de France against Paris Saint-Germain. To start at the top level, it's difficult, she was stressed and then other young players, who are beginners even if they made matches in D1. It's always a little bit stressful to have a great meeting. Yes the mind [is lacking] but I find that in this match we did things much more interesting than on our previous meetings.

There was also missing a key player today in this match, Rose Lavaud?
He was missing Rose Lavaud, he was missing Morgane Courteille, who are experienced girls. They got hurt and were told they are not 100%. They could have had a good game, but it was not good for [Cup] so we preferred to put girls at 100%. Rather than girls who risked the injury and could lose while we still have the championship to finish and we have points to take.

The entrance of Audrey Chaumette that changed everything too, with the magnificent goal as a bonus?
Yes the entry of Audrey Chaumette changed everything, a great goal yes. PSG likes it because it always puts beautiful goals against this team. Audrey [Chaumette] the same, she had a difficult week, she was a little hurt ... So she could not start this game. We regret that we did not play with all our weapons. We lose in the semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain but there's nothing dramatic, we'll say. It is rather a beautiful course to have arrived so far and especially having beaten Montpellier [in the quarter-finals].