The reaction objectively of Meline Gerard, goalkeeper of the MHSC after the victory of her team 3-2 against Marseille on behalf of the 13th day of D1.


Hearts of Football - Your reaction on this meeting that you started well before conceding these two goals?

Méline Gérard - Yes it's true that we were still doing well. We had it well in hand. We score relatively early, after two minutes so it's true that we make it "a bit easy" in quotation marks, in addition we mark the second, it seemed to roll like clockwork and it's true that we take a goal a little ... and it's true that we take a goal on a technical error on my part, and it revives mentally!
After we left them a little left. We really thought that the match was bent and they could not come back, we managed with the win at the end. Even if they put a second goal that we could have avoided. But here we end the game at 3-2, we win but not the way we would have liked.


CDF - Defensively also there was a certain laxity, with Anouk Dekker who was replaced by Saez as a defender with Linda Sembrant, whereas she is rather midfielder as she affirmed to me in selection? So you must not rely on you to blame?

M.G. - It is true that it is a succession of errors that make us take this goal but here at my post errors are seen and paid cash.
It's a shame because we had the game in hand. But we come out with the victory and this is the essential!


CDF - Was Sandie Toletti's injury too, that did not a little destabilize you because it looked serious? Did you have news?

M.G. - Yes it is true that it has put a blow to the morale, we can not hide it. Sandie is someone very important in the team. We do not know exactly what she has ... I really hope it's not a big deal. In addition she has just been recalled in the selection so it's a shame for her, it's a blow for her and the whole team because it's a player that counts in the workforce.


CDF - I noticed a little more in this match, that in your team you have very offensive profiles, good except you ...

M.G. - (she laughs) And the defense (smile) though, Sakina [Karchaoui] and Marion [Torrent]. Yes that's true, but that's the style of play here in Montpellier. It is true that we are an offensive team, we go very fast in front of us, we lead both fast attacks and placed, we like to move forward.


CDF - In two weeks you have a big match in addition which announces against Lyon ...
M.G. - Yes we find OL and we will have to be more rigorous defensively to avoid making goals.


CDF - Do you think you can overthrow them?

M.G. - On a match everything is possible, even if it is OL, even if we know the players who are there but on a match everything is possible. You never know. And if we are 100% too I think we can bother them.


CDF - You talked about it a bit, you saw the last list of the France A team where you have not been summoned, I think it must be frustrating for you? What did you think?

M.G. - What did I think? (she thinks) Rather what I felt, it's true that it was a disappointment, I never hide it, I play to be in France team, I make my choices to be in selection. So it's certain that not being on this list is a disappointment for me. Afterwards I took it as a way to question myself and come out even better.
I think in my career it has often been the case and it has always served me! I question myself, I get back to work and I try to move on.

CDF - What did you say then? Have you tried to understand the mistakes you could have made? We hear some say that it's the match against Germany that you pay today ...

M.G. - I think that on every goal that I cash I have my share of responsibility, I always analyze them. You know when we take a goal we know if we could have done better or not, already hot.
After, on the match of Germany it is true that I was questioned on some goals, but I understand and accept it. I could have more to impose myself in the air sector including the set pieces that have failed us.


CDF - You still made parries ... It's easy to put everything back on the goalkeeper I feel in football when there is a whole effort to make the attack on the defense to avoid them at the base.

M.G. - Sincerely I think I know where my share of responsibility is, after I do not judge the rest! Personally I know that I have my share of responsibility on certain goals I analyzed them and it is certain that it will serve me for the continuation.
After I think I have shown good things even if my match was far from perfect, I agree! You know I do my best to be the best performer every time, but it's not that simple, in any case that's what I aspire to. I know that I still have work to do for this and that my playing time in Montpellier helps me a lot. It is true that I pay a bit my lack of playing time not acquired at the OL at the beginning of the season, I feel and see, but I am aware of my qualities and my potential.


CDF - My last question, she was focused on that. Did leaving Saint-Etienne for OL that did not serve you? Have not we sold you a dream in Lyon, how you would play ...

M.G. - No, no, no (she nods to say no) I've never been dreamed of, I've always been told what it was. We went straight with me. I do not regret my choice to go to OL, I learned so much. I already saw what was the professional environment in football, because I was not in Saint-Etienne and I rubbed the greatest players on the planet. Frankly our training was good, it was exceptional, international level to all training. So we can not regret that. I took advantage of this experience [in Lyon].

I learned a lot, even though it was true that it was a lack of playing time. I had a little bit of a second year out of the three, which did me a lot of good. And I also thanks to the OL go in selection for the first time. So I'll never regret my passing at OL, he taught me too much.

After now that this change is digested (gesture of the hand) is how to regain all this confidence and my qualities [we had spotted at home in Saint-Etienne], which are still mine for this new challenge with Montpellier, to be the incumbent at my post, to play a Champions League too.