After the match against Metz, the Paris coach, Patrice Lair reacted on this confrontation. We also spoke of the busy month ahead of PSG, with three crucial matches against Olympique Lyonnais, in the league, in the Cup and the Champions League. Or the preparation of the next season.


The summary of the match => D1 (late match) - Metz / Paris (0-2): The PSG ensures without shining


Football Hearts - How did you feel about this match against Metz?
Patrice Lair - We did the job, we came here to win, to keep in touch with the other teams. We knew that Metz played an important part for its maintenance and I wish them to escape. They made a game full of envy, full of aggression, we expected a little bit. The field was not easy and then inevitably for us it was a little decompression compared to last week, it was not obvious in terms of motivation. The girls did the job that's good.

Hearts of Foot - You spoke about it, Metz gave a good invoice according to you?
P.L. - Yes they made a brave match, a lot of envy. We managed to make the difference in the first half. After it's tired, I turned a little bit to reserve some players. Laura Georges did not play because she had two boxes. I am satisfied and I wish Metz to maintain itself. I like David [Fanzel] more, he's like me, he's bloody, I'd like him to come out because it bothers me that a club like Metz can come down, it's like Girondins de Bordeaux, they lost a zero against Lyon and it's a shame. They took a goal 10 minutes from the end I think. The teams want to save themselves and it's not obvious but congratulations to the club [Metz], they have a good attacker [Melike Pekel] they bothered us to the end. It was a nice game from them and we managed and the goal today was to take the three points.

Football Hearts - Do you feel that you have still aligned a typical team today against Metz to ensure the three points or is it just our feeling?
P.L. - It's not a really good team, it's mostly that I do not have a bench. We know that the problem of PSG team this year is the quantity, we saw it with some girls when they came back. We had more really this hold [in the second half] but hey there was courage and a lot of desire anyway. We know that from the beginning it's difficult, that's why we hang on but I'm happy with the girls today, because it was not easy to get motivated when you go from the Parc des Princes with 20,000 spectators but here without saying that there were not many people, it's not the same thing and then there's a team in front who wants to save himself, who has weapons, who has remained on positive results and that will annoy some teams I think until the end. I touch wood because I hope that this team is maintained in D1.


"Today we are still more focused on our finals"


Football Hearts - As you say there is a big step between the Champions League atmosphere at the D1, but there is also the feeling that you control your Champions League matches a bit better?
PL - Of course with what happened to us with the history of the points (shortness of breath) I'm not going to tell you that we let loose the championship but today we are still more focused on our finals, with the Coupe de France and the Champions League but hey we want to do the job until the end. Above all be respectful of teams. This weekend we will play Albi, necessarily we will not give them a gift ... to take points. Me what disappoints me is to see Metz and Bordeaux in difficult situations. Frankly I would like these clubs to stay and at least they come back quickly among the elite if they ever have to go down again.


"Metz could possibly be the surprise"


Hearts of Football - To talk about your next three big confrontations against Lyon, we can say that you miss not much?
P.L. - Lyon is well above. It is up to us to do an exploit as we did in December. Lyon is a team, it's a locomotive. They have about twenty internationals, twenty-five, you know. We're going to be complicated but ... we're still capable of doing exploits. Today we are in the final of the Champions League, which would have believed in October. In football that's what's good. As on a match today, we never know, Metz could perhaps be the surprise. It's always the same, that's what's good in football, anything is possible. And we will try to create a surprise. What would be interesting, it would be the two Cups, the championship, it is necessary to make a good match in Lyon but good the Cup of France is close to my heart and we fought until today to be there with our arguments."When you start a competition you have to win it"


Hearts of Football - When you were in Lyon you might have had some speech to the Lyonnaises, as you say who became the ogre Lyonnais. Are you trying to pass on another speech among Parisian women to narrow the gap?
P.L. - Well we know very well, I trained Lyon for four years, we have a big machine, we know that when you start a competition you have to win. We like this year it is perhaps to make the best possible season, finish the best possible in the league. The only thing I regret is not being able to keep some players to expand a little more my staff (Amandine Henry probably) and if we could ensure our second place, it would have been extra but in the worst case, if we have to go back next season to get our place for the European Cup, well we will, do not panic. Must always project on the future. We will do our best and I hope we will have good surprises on these Cup matches.

Football Hearts - And when you see most of the D1 coaches who are sidelined or leaving their club, how do you see this season?
P.L. - Well, I think (laughs) it's starting to look a little bit like the male world. That is to say, when the coach is fishing a little bit, he is the one who will take but that's how it is the law of the middle [Football].
Me what interests me today is to advance my team, to see games like today because there was a time when the top teams who played the last clubs, it was 10 goals away and here we see that it improves, that the level is rising and that it is very very good. I think this team there and able to do something next weekend. With this state of mind, they are not yet condemned, far from it.

Hearts of Football - Last question is about recruitment (smiling Patrice Lair), I do not know if you have already thought about your future recruits? I know that in the middle there is a lot of competition in the squad, unlike maybe the attack?
P.L. - In attack, in attack, it's always the same, Marie Katoto took over with us with the group. So there's still Marie Katoto who offensively if we had it would do us a lot of good, you see. Good Erika has also taken over with us, it is a midfielder, defender. We are already on several players, we even concluded with some players. Well now we will try to expand all that to start next year with a group but I especially want to keep the same state of mind because I like it and we let go of nothing. Metz did a good match there, I take my hat off.

Soccer Hearts - It's an American can be?
P.L. - No, no you will see, you will see. You know me there I have a big month, I have a lot of deadlines. We do both we try to prepare next season and focus on what we have to do this month. We have goals, we will try to reach them because we are competitors. And especially for French women's football, it's still nice to have two French teams in the final. There will be at least one French team champion in Europe again this year and I think it's a novelty anyway, because there are a few years, it was already complicated to go to the final. Now there are two so I think it's good, that's why if it can grow (hand gesture) the other clubs [D1 Feminine] and so on, the team of France It's a good thing, the level is improving.