At the end of the match against Guingamp (16th day), we found Jean-Louis Saez, the coach of the MHSC. An important victory for the club, after its big disappointment last weekend in the Coupe de France, which undoubtedly was bitter to live in view of the ambitions of Montpellier to glean this title there this season.

The match summary => Day 16 - Victorious against the EAG (2-0), Montpellier backs PSG

You're pretty happy with this game, I guess?
Yes satisfied with the result, I would say our first half. Well, we made a good start, scoring the goal quickly, it reassured us and after I would say that scoring the second, the match was not folded but almost. I think we have, the girls have managed a little the second half, a little too much for my taste but it's been a long time since we had not taken goals so I think we tried not to be countered . Guingamp did not necessarily push to return to the score. We were rather in the management of not taking a goal, with a score of 2-0, the match was bent at halftime.

With the result of Marseille yesterday against Paris, it was an important match for Montpellier to follow PSG?
Say, yes, that we came out of a defeat that made me a little bit rage in the Coupe de France. Here we have an end of season where we can play something, so it's a shame to have spoiled the Coupe de France, now we will hang on with the last six games that remain in the league to make us forget the injury. little bit of Jakobsson and Tonazzi, but we can play something at the end of the season, we continue to hound Paris and Lyon.

We also saw that in your workforce, you did not have many midfielders (Torecilla, Toletti and Dekker). Is this something that can annoy your training in a match?
Let's say ... we have three serious injuries so it's something that diminishes us because we do not have a very strong staff but at the same time it allows the girls to be concerned and then in the middle it goes pretty well. Y'a Marion Torre

nt who helps out from time to time, who does his job well and then there are other girls who can play [middle] in central defense we have Linda Sembrant who can play so I still have some girls who have versatility in the defensive sector, so it's not too embarrassing.

A question for the second goal, who knows who hits the corner for Clarisse Le Bihan?
Toletti.

Going back to Sofia Jakobsson, you said it's a bit of a drag on your squad, but on the other side you've also recruited two good guys with Cayman and Blackstenius. Does this balance a little this big absence?
No it pushed us maybe a little bit. We lost maybe a little bit of time, it was planned to have the other two players at the same time, we would have been stronger offensively and it would have given a little more competition but it is part of the vagaries of football. It was an asset, it was our line of attack between Jakobsson on the beginning of the season, and Tonazzi, players of experiences, one who was better scorer, but we will do with. I have a group that is collectively able to work on something else. It is true that the international truce did not allow us to work. I think that over a few weeks we will have a little bit of all the players before the next truce, to rework our offensive animation. We saw [in this match] that it had worked for 45 minutes, I want tomorrow to work for an hour and a half.

Compared to the Coupe de France, for you it's a competition that you care about, we talked about it with Hervé Didier [ASSE coach] who told us that he knew your game strategy well and it's like that he took you by default. Are you trying to change your strategy to avoid this kind of disappointment?
Let's say, we did run, I ran on the Coupe de France so that's the idea was also to win this game, in Guingamp and not to put the big team against Saint-Etienne. We broke our teeth [on this meeting] but I think that the Algarve and the United States are coming to a period where it could be a sixth match for the girls in a fortnight. I think what we do first is protect the integrity of the players and when I put Toletti and Karchaoui [She Belives Cup] to rest, Sembrant [Algarve Cup] and Cayman [Cyprus Cup], was at one point not to go to the break. I think we do not see it in boys, make six games in a fortnight, that's it. To do four I want but to do six with travel, travel in relation to the integrity of girls, I believe that the next calendars, the instances of European football or national teams, we protect a little the players then we the fact we are in the clubs because an injury can spoil the career of a player. And I think that we leave to be a little in trouble in a game, we prefer to preserve the girls. We made a choice, we lost, we won today so we could have done the opposite, play at all costs the Cup and ignore the match after. Today we are happy, we are rewarded with the victory, it clears a little defeat against Saint-Etienne.

And you think you'll be able to have that second place in the championship, are you going to fight a bit more now to get it?
It is dedicated to Paris and Lyon, which are part of the two best European clubs, that means that we work well, it means that we are there so if [Paris] continues to miss and we are continues to garner points, if it is at the end, it will reward the work of all girls who invest.