At the Charléty stadium, it was a rainy Sunday that hosted the match of the 32nd finals of the Coupe de France between Paris Saint-Germain and Albi. A duel between teams of D1 which ended with the victory of the Parisiennes on the score of 3-0. Back on the meeting.

First match of the year for PSG and Albi in the 32nd finals of the Coupe de France. This is the only match that opposes two teams of D1 during this round of the Cup. A duel not necessarily easy for PSG and a really unfavorable draw for Albi.

At the Charléty stadium, in rainy weather, Paris Saint-Germain played its first match in 2016, but especially its first match without the trio who announced his departure during the week, Lindsey Horan, Kosovare Asllani and Josephine Henning.

Absences on the initial eleven are not necessarily felt, so it is a rather "usual" team that returns to the lawn of the Parisian stadium.

From the first minutes, it is therefore the Parisians who set up their game and dominate quite outrageously. Albi tries to play in cons but without great success, at least on this early meeting.

Bad luck will befall the Albigensians. In the 13th minute, Swedish midfielder Caroline Seger shifts to the left side of the Parisian attack, the Costa Rican midfielder Shirley Cruz. In an eccentric position, Shirley Cruz's center at the entrance of the 6 meters is deflected by the defense of Albi and deceives the goalkeeper Alexandra Saint-Jours, before finishing his race in the back of the net. 1-0 for PSG.

The Parisiennes will also push the point, only five minutes after the first goal! At the entrance to the surface, midfielder Kheira Hamraoui puts a nice shot that leaves no chance to the keeper of Albi. 2-0 for PSG.

Until half-time, little to put in the tooth. However Paris Saint-Germain, who dominated the whole first half, closed it with a third goal!

In the 41st minute, Laure Boulleau overflowed on the left side and placed a perfect cross, picked up at the left left post by Ouleyemata Sarr! 3-0 for PSG.

The first half ends on this result which does not suffer any contestation, 3-0 for the Parisiennes. Albi will have struggled to exist, and coach Adolphe Ogouyon has even decided to get Lin Man-ting out and replace it with Myriam Benlazar in the 35th minute. Until half-time, this replacement will not bring more stability to the team.

In this second half we expect that the match will be the same as during the first half, and this will be the case.

PSG dominates possession of the ball but it is a sterile domination on the first minutes. Farid Benstiti, the Parisian coach, takes the opportunity to make the first replacement. German forward Anja Mittag gives her place to the French international Marie-Laure Delie in the 54th minute.

The strikes are linked on the Paris side but Alexandra Saint-Days defends itself beautifully and repels Parisian strikes.

The match goes quietly towards the end of the match, with a PSG who controls, who attacks, but without real conviction, while Albi defends and is a little more in counterattack, but not enough to actually bring the danger in the game. Paris area.

Paris Saint-Germain won the match 3-0 against Albi and qualified for the 16th round of the Coupe de France. The Parisians have prepared themselves for next week's match against Montpellier for the championship. A decisive encounter in the title race and a place in the Champions League.

Albi is eliminated by the PSG but will not be unworthy. The Albigensians will take the path of the championship against Juvisy, currently in the fourth place in the standings, that is to say a place in front of Albi. A decisive encounter to know if Albi can fight for more than a fifth place.

Feedback from coaches

Farid Benstiti (PSG coach): "We were expecting a better second part of the second half. The first half was not too bad and the second half a little sluggish. However we are not surprised by the state of fatigue of some players since we have accumulated a number of sessions, this week, very important to be in the best conditions on the second part of the championship. We will remember this first half.

(High placement Shirley Cruz) Shirley Cruz likes to play like that, between the lines or more offensively because it is very effective in his last or penultimate assists and in his dribbling. She had a little more freedom today. She needed to take pleasure offensively and it's not a direct impact of departures. It may be a new stage in his career, being able to create, to be effective in the area and in front of goal. She agrees and it's going well. Today it lacked a bit of freshness in the last meters but when it is ready, it can be very interesting for Paris Saint-Germain. "

Adolphe Ogouyon (Albi coach): "There were two very distinct half-times. A first where we were ugly to die, and then a second where we had a burst of pride and where we found something that looks like football on our part. The second half would be close to what we like to do and what we want to do. The 3-0 is deserved for PSG when we look at the first half where we did not exist because we too quickly give the ball back to the opponent and when we tried to build we were suffocated by the Parisian laundry very high. With the quality in front, it was sure that it was difficult to really exist. In the second half we decided to go looking for them higher, that the attackers make the effort in recovery and pressing. So it was a little near correct, which allowed our team to go up and win between 20 to 30 meters, which was not the case in the first half. The girls know how to do something other than the show of the first half. A match lasts 90 minutes, but if we only retain the second half, the feat was possible, but obviously compared to the entire match, it was not possible.

(Draw in 2nd half) We made 0-0 in the second half, we had opportunities and situations that were poorly exploited even if it was conceded also to Paris, but it's part of the game We are a team that does not know how to close the game, and we do not want to close the game. We want to progress and pose problems to the opponents, what we tried to do. Moreover we played with five less holders, which may explain the first half where it lacked automatisms. I would have liked to see what it would have been possible if I had these five incumbents in the first half. "

Photo Credits: Giovani Pablo and Nelson Fatagraf