Back in France with her Fleury club to prepare for the clash, Maeva Clemaron gave us her first impressions of this 1-0 loss to Albi and her new experience with France A.



His reaction to the match just after returning from the She Believes Cup and his first cape in A

No jet lag in this direction, it's ok, it went well. It was more coming to the United States that it was complicated to manage fatigue, but for the return to France it was fine. So no it is not an excuse for today's jet lag.

Personally on this game, I felt a little frustrated because collectively we did not impose our game enough against a team against whom we knew it was going to be hard to move in the axis. So we worked the game in this direction "this week" (Maeva returned Friday in France), to be patient, to go through the sides and we did not do enough in the first half. We struggled to want to go through the axis, to want to make the difference individually. Even we [the middle] we did not focus enough on the game I think, so here we lose the first half 1-0. But for me on the second half, we have opportunities to come back and win. We put our game in second, so it's frustrating to come out of this match with such a result.


It's a stopping point compared to your last benefits ...

It's a bit of a break, that's it but you have to [move on to something else] ... Now the score is there, the three points have not taken them today, you have to go forward, you have to question yourself and then have to fix everything that did not work today. Because the qualities we have, the intelligence of the game we have but we have to be patient [to win]. Albi we know it's a team that does not necessarily want to play, although there in the first half they showed that they were trying to get out and so on


With your draw against Montpellier (1-1) on the last day, and the first leg lost 1-0, you should still want more in this poster ...

I was not in the first leg, I was suspended so I had not met them yet. When we see that we draw (1-1) against Montpellier, we say that Albi normally we must impose the game and we must make the game easy, it's not what we did . With the objectives we display, we must be better. After Albi was as usual aggressive, played the shots thoroughly, tried to gain time once he led to the score, logically, that's it, it's part of the game. We should have come back before [to score] or score before.


You said that having come back from the United States after participating in the She Believes Cup tournament with the France A team, it was not "an excuse" to be tired, but there was also two more of your teammates who were selected in B, Daphne Corboz and Claire Lavogez. We can still say that you were tired and that it is legitimate, because you had a few rest days before this match and to resume the rhythm ...

Yes maybe, but for my part I did not have much play time with the selection so I felt pretty cool. After that, perhaps, they felt a little tired. So no, I think more than collectively it did not work. We were not in the right tempo today and that on each line, so what collectively did not take. Now I know we have the qualities and we will react, we will rebound.


You played badly your shot we can say?

Yes it's a shame because today we can take shelter from the maintenance. There are still other games but we must not say that, because every game we can take points and we must try to take them. So today it is important to question the game. We were in a good dynamic but today unfortunately we could not confirm. Now have to watch the upcoming matches, even if it's PSG [next weekend].

"We can not do any exploit

when we have four players on us "

Albi told us that their instructions were mainly to block Claire Lavogez and Salma Amani on your team ... Did they analyze everything to make you feel frustrated?

We suspected a little that they were going to block both and that's why the order was to be patient and go by the sides. I repeat, we pushed the ax a bit too hard and we made the game easy for them. We can not do any feat when we have four players on us, it's a shame. We had the cards in hand, and the qualities I think, that's for sure.


Last question, what did that tell you about this She Believes Cup with the France A team?

It taught me a lot, even though I barely played a few minutes [in the last game against Germany]. Already I took a lot of benchmarks, I really saw what it was the high level, the international level, already observing. So I learned a lot, I was in contact with players like Eugénie [Le Sommer], Amandine [Henry] etc so that can only make progress. Now we will see more, but it was a great adventure that's for sure.