Eliminated in the round of 16 by Paris Saint-Germain, the captain of Rafettes Manon Guitard returns on the match, the head already turned towards the future and this maintenance in D1 to fetch.


On this match there has not really been a photo .. You have lost a lot. Is there any disappointment?

It's a cup game so we always say there is hope and there is something to do. It happens. Now we know it's a big armada and the feat is difficult. But yes inevitably disappointment, it remains a lost match. [...] After I think we do not have to blush our performance despite everything. We did good things, we were able to score a goal too. We finish the game at 10 for ten minutes and we do not take extra goals, so we could. Now it's Paris, and today it's not over.


For a team that plays the maintenance like you, how do you approach the Coupe de France?

It's super important. Because in the second half of the season, we often have a calendar where there are a lot of holes between the possible matches of the Coupe de France if we are not qualified, the international truces, then we play a return match on the first phase before Christmas ... So it's a lot of holes so when you can play the Coupe de France it keeps pace. In the end we have chained four matches including a friendly and we will have no cuts before receiving Lille next week and it was important. Especially to work on our defensive base, something we've been fishing a bit lately.


You are talking about Lille, in the league you will play four decisive matches

That's it ! We are doing very important matches with Lille, Albi, Fleury and Marseille and we will have to get points from next week at home.


The group is in an optimal form to chain these challenges?

Yes, we work for that. Even if we took a few shots behind the head. We had a schedule that did not help us too. A very complicated start to the season, where the big guys were chained. It's a set of things that made it a bit hard this year, now what's interesting is that the group remains very supportive. There has never been a "crisis" or things like that. So yes, we are ready for that. We give everything. You have to have some confidence [in us], while remaining in one's place. We know our strengths to maintain each year, now we have to put these ingredients on the ground.