In the mixed zone, we found the Saint Etienne side, Noémie Carage, inevitably disappointed with the outcome of the lost match against Dijon (0-2). A defeat that hurts Saint-Etienne, as it moves away from his goal to go back to D1, after his relegation the previous season.



His hot reaction to this defeat

It's hard. It's not easy because we did not play in fact, we refused the game and it's a shame because we knew it was a decisive match to go up in D1, even if it was not that on this match that it will be played. But we lose points stupidly and we can have a lot of regrets on this match.


On the management of emotions

Yes I from the first action I got a shot on the ankle, so I felt that it will go up in power. Afterwards they gave a lot of blows, but we were able to respond to the impact. We took a hard enough goal and we did not manage to react.


I also talked about it with the coach, maybe it was also the terrain that penalized you in this match, because you had a game that was more based on short passes and on the sides, and the state of play. the lawn has really slowed down your balloons. While Dijon had a game on long balloons and in your back.

Yes we are more likely to play the game. The field did not help us to play, with a lot of false rebounds, it was not an easy terrain to play. I think that on a synthetic or a better lawn, we would have been more comfortable and I think we would have been better. Now we do not have the excuse of the field, it is up to us to know how to adapt. We should have had more desire, more play ... We pay dear [this failure].


In the first period, you had opportunities to open the score, like Dijonnaises elsewhere, but in the second it is they who achieve ...

Yes it was pretty tight, at half time we made a bar I think. We have opportunities to score, but we have not arrived, and when we do not score, we can not win. We did not leave at this time, it was necessary and here it is.


We felt two distinct blocks within your team, with one part that wanted to move forward quickly and another that was more about recoil.

We had trouble being together on this match, we were not together offensively and defensively and it could be played on the osmosis of our game ...


With your experience of the D1 in particular, are you trying a little to bring that to Saint-Etienne because there is the rise in D1 at the end of the tunnel can be?

It is a very beautiful goal that awaits us so we certainly have a young group but a very good team, a very good group, even young. We have a good cohesion so it's always positive and it's sure that this defeat does not do us good but we will continue until the end and we will remain united until the end and we will keep a group to bottom to the end because we know that it is not over and that the slightest misstep Dijon can put us back in the race [on the climb].

It will take a faultless home, but a misstep Dijon anyway. All matches are finals and you should not lose this one.


You did not have a speech about it before the match, because we had trouble seeing this state of mind ...

If, however, it was victory, victory. You have to win, as every game does. Dijon or another team, we had to win and we knew it was still a big step towards the climb. We've said it to ourselves, we've said it all over again, and it's true that on the ground I think we've been holding back. Maybe by stress, by fear. It's a shame because we could have done a lot better and we know we can do a lot better.