The first impressions of Patrice Lair, after the victory of PSG against OL, yesterday on behalf of the 11th day of D1. A Parisian coach who is obviously happy and who talks about how far his team has come since the beginning of the season.

"A sense of pride in my group already and humility also because Olympique Lyonnais was for me a great club and a highlight in my coaching career too. Today, there was a good match, two very good teams, a Lyon team that masters, who has exceptional players and we a pretty well organized team with a big mind. And as I told them at half-time, we had to be patient and we would have one or two possibilities. Marie-Laure did the right thing to mark this goal.

After, the solidarity was there, a little bit of luck also because some balloons dragged. but congratulations to this group because there I find it hard to realize because when we went on an internship at the beginning of the season in Ploufragan, for a moment I say to myself: "Ooh! It's going to be complicated ". And no, by dint of work and solidarity, atmosphere in the group too, because the girls, they are quite exceptional on that side. The young, the old, all that, brought a big solidarity. Quality also because when we manage to beat Lyon, it is because we had the quality. And tonight, they were rewarded and I told them hat.

A "transfer of power" between Lyon and Paris?
"We must not talk about handover, we still have a lot of work. I trained this team to have this game background, the strength they have, in addition to the players. We have to build on that side. I think we are doing it with some young people all that. We will try to improve the group, in 2017 to be better, and in 2018 to be very very good so we can really play the title.

There, we are in front, it's fabulous, we're going to spend holidays, we're first. It would have told me that ... It's deserved, sweat, it shows that when we work hard, when we question, when we bring a certain rigor, a certain discipline ... And maybe I too may have improved too, maybe I'm a better coach today.

I may have a pedagogy that has changed too, which is perhaps more in dialogue and encouragement about girls. I have won many titles by being very severe, even aggressive a few times. No it's me too ... I'm like my players, I improve and if we continue to improve, I think we will arrive at some point to have a very nice team in Paris.

A "dream night" for Paris?
"It's a fabulous night, football is football. Football, it is wonderful for that. A match you can always win with envy, with organization. No it's ... everything is possible. I'm doing a fabulous job. We have a pressure maybe, things like that but then I live a nice moment. I have the restraint because it is Olympique Lyonnais opposite and Olympique Lyonnais, we say what we want but I have a lot of respect for this club.

Has Paris managed to disrupt Lyon?
"There are lots of little ingredients, and you have to use it with your group. Me, before the game, I told them that everything was possible, that it was absolutely necessary to believe it. Each time since the beginning of the season, they opened the big eyes (...) but I told them we are able to do it, we must put it in the idea. It's the same, it's this mind, this desire to excel, to play together that leads to victories and when we get to do that we can go very far.

On the current dynamics of PSG
(...) The trigger is the Champions League. If we do not turn the tide against Lilleström, I do not know if this thing, it really is created because there we understood that we could pass a course, we were able to sublimate on a match. We put the table back today. It shows that we are still able to do it, to progress, perhaps at a time to have more control in the game again to be able to win the matches by being perhaps better in possession. But what is football? It's efficiency, we waited to be effective and it's still something, beat Lyon because Lyon it was a while.

Young people without complex face OL
"Look at the courses, Grace, she's playing in 19 years last year, Aminata is playing at Guingamp. That's why when we look for a little bit, we give it a chance, we see the possibilities of some players. No, you have to work, you have to dare too!

I was taken for a nut when I went looking for Aminata, Sarah Palacin, Eve Perisset. "They do not play in their clubs, they are not in big clubs" We do not care about that! When we feel something, put in a context, in a progression, in a desire, in a motivation and also in ambition. Because since Ploufragan, even if there are times when I did not believe it too much, I give them that taste of ambition and that's important. On the goal of Marie-Laure Delie "A player with full confidence . Marie-Laure Delie is an excellent player. (...) What is an attacker? Trust. And there, I think that I progressed a little more on that side. I may speak more, I will give a little more confidence. Before it is true that I typed hard anyway. But good today I'm happy with this goal. But we also have great players, Cristiane is a great player too, but it is a collective that has triumphed tonight with great solidarity. Bravo! Photo: psg.fr