This afternoon at Camp des Loges, Paris Saint-Germain received the ASPTT Albi for the 5th day of D1 Feminine. After long working the Albigensians, the Parisian players managed to open the score through Marie-Laure Delie in the second half. Paris will not shake Lambert's net more than that, but takes the three important points for the race to second place in the championship.



Difficult not to judge hard this fifth game of the season for Paris, which has shown many gaps in these placements, transmissions, automatisms, these constructions ... So many points to correct that it may be difficult to know where to start. This is the very essence of a team with as many talented players in the m2 and yet struggling to play in good harmony to take over any team in the championship. Wrong coaching strategy or bad gambling tactics? It is very likely that it is a mixture of both. But it is important today to put things as they are and to question before succumbing to the pressure of Montpellier or Lyon. Paris Saint-Germain is not there, despite his victory today at home. A success that had a lot of trouble to emerge.



Albi does not let himself be led to the baton

The ball is Paris who has it, but without reaching the opportunity to create conclusive. A team of Albi who evolves in a system of defensive game, but widened its positions on the ground which allows him to predict the movements of Parisiennes and without letting himself be exceeded.


The most concerned in this beginning of the match, it is probably Veronica Boquete, who evolves by the same in a position little inclined to have the last gesture in front of the goal. The Spanish brings his technique, his openings but can not find these teammates far too far to allow to advance firmly to the cages of Albi. She will even try from the start to worry the visiting club on his shot but it is too crushed and easily recovered on the ground by the guardian of Albi, Gabrielle Lambert. A first attempt that shows a desire to send the ball several times at the bottom. A will that will find it hard to come to fruition.


But on the other side of the field, the Albigensians are concentrated in this beginning of meeting. They have undoubtedly raised their level of play and with players like Belkhiter, Pantelic or Cazeau to keep the tempo of the attacker in defense.


At the quarter of an hour, Paris has possession of the ball but stumbles in the final meters, without opening the mark, the fault to realism in front of goal. Two attempts among many others. That of Melike Pekel (17th) who uses as she knows so well to do its speed in the right lane, to come cut in the axis of the goal and attempt the shot, which will be annihilated with the good exit of the door of 'Albi, Gabrille Lambert. Or like Laure Boulleau (22), who has a good start to the season - after a long absence due to injury - but his center for Delie, will be difficult to recover from a powerful head by his teammate and the ball ends once again in Lambert's gloves.


One being misses you and everything is depopulated. An adage that befits PSG in this start of virgin match intelligence game and goal in short. At the break the two teams leave back to back. An imperial guardian and a cruel lack of pragmatism on the Parisian side.
Delie delivers the PSG

Back on the field, Paris knows and must change its dynamics, and Albi will have to adapt to this new strategy. A new strategy that will have the principle to discard the game even more, instead of remaining compact and in contact with the Albigensians. While in the first period the Parisiennes played tight to avoid that the ball between two is recovered by an opponent. A tactic that has not borne these fruits and which has no use especially against large teams like Lyon or Montpellier. In this second period Paris understood what it was lacking and we feel that it has corrected the pace.


Paris will continue to chain these attempts, without the fact that Albi is excited in this direction but can not do the same. The problem comes from a lack of projection of the game and forward attackers, who follow the strategy of ensuring above all the defense, rather than aiming to send the leather to the bottom of the nets. On this long center Laure Boulleau (56th), well present in this game but has struggled to get a little closer to the goal against Belkhiter or Cazes, who blocked it. The Parisienne transmits to the second post for Diani, but it is poorly taken and goes in six meters. A new attempt failed so little.


Veronica Boquete has several bursts of pride in the game, and tries hard to have the last word. She is sometimes quite alone, without finding solutions around her. Like this attempt in the 73rd minute, and save judgment of Gabrielle Lambert once again, leaving only frustration to Boquete.


Morgane Belkhiter will be confronted with Melike Pekel and then Laure Boulleau in his hall and will work relentlessly to keep the Parisian assault out of the goal of his team. What is remarkable is above all the feverish appearance it gives, when it is not so. She shows strength, investment intelligence, without being too physical, just right. She is well supported on this task by his captain Manon Rouzies (89th) and will avoid that Paris doubles the bet in two attempts. Already on this rescue on the line of his guardian in the 84th on this shot of Ashley Lawrence! Or on this attempt Delie, she annihilates on his return in the box. Always 1-0. Even the latter strike of Veronica Boquete (89) will finish above the goal, on this Lambert's clapper and which closes the game on a score to the advantage of Paris, but without having demonstrated a great football.



It is still difficult to understand the lack of regularity in the Parisian game. The different profiles of the players have a hard time fitting in whatever they say and that's the problem. The Parisian must know each other in every detail to achieve the level of play. They will put this into practice next weekend against Paris FC Gaetane Thiney. While Albi has shown a new face in this meeting, with more group cohesion and involvement to at least stand up to teams like Paris in this game. Kim Cazeau's team-mates will now face FC Fleury to try their first win in this complicated start to the season.



PSG: Endler, Perisset (Lawrence 45 '), Georges, Erika, Boulleau, Diallo (c) (Formiga 62'), Geyoro, Boquete, Diani, Pekel (Baltimore 45 '), Delie.
Albi: Lambert; Belkhiter, Cazes, Rouzies (c), Schlepp, Pantelic (Benlazar 67 '), Leuko, Bayo, Khoury (Roy-Petitclerc 40'), Cazeau, Mijatovic (Closset 58 ').

Purpose: Delys 55 '

Warning: Cazes 84 '
 
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