Just after the draw against Fleury (1-1), the left side of the MHSC, Sakina Karchaoui returned to this meeting where she will be particularly enterprising for his team, despite the final result.



I imagine very frustrated this match "return" against Fleury?

Yes of course. This draw was not in our objectives because we are moving away from the Champions League, it is a personal goal and a collective goal. Sometimes it's games like this that make us question ourselves and we hope not to repeat it in our next matches.


You are moving away from the Champions League unless you win it this year?

Yes (smile) it's an ambition of course. Maybe you have to think about that now. We had two solutions (win this year or finish in 2nd place at the end of the season) now we only have that left. It's not over yet, if Paris stumbles again too.


How do you explain on your side, this draw against FC Fleury?

It was a good team in front, there was play, they just wanted [to play]. After that it's true that on our side we have a lot of injuries, we have a team in "reconstruction", we have many more young people who play so they weigh in the balance and in the end, we take a goal on a misunderstanding it is a mistake that must be rectified and we must move forward now.


On your side, we saw you very very involved in the actions of Montpellier, in your left aisle as well. After this draw, do not you say it was useless?

No, there's nothing wrong with football. That's what I like doing [for my team].
Sure I did not see me draw against them, for me it was winning and that's it. After for me I gave everything and girls too but there's no end result and it's a shame.


In a month you replay the Champions League. Is Chelsea in the quarter a step that is a little too high today for you?

Not at all, I do not think of Chelsea today. I get involved week after week and every game, so every thing in its own time. We'll see by then.


"We had a lot of tendency to play live and

we wanted to play by building our game. "


To come back to this game against Fleury, the team you expect we have the impression, there was a lot of defensive solidity on their part. Is that also what gets you a little stuck in your game building? Jean Louis Saez told us that you were very focused today on your combinations, and on the short game with a lot of passes, but that you did not try to place your attacks to kill the match. Did that hurt you in this match?

Yes it's true that we tried to play more games, because we had a lot of tendency to play live and we wanted to play by building our game. Now it's true that it did not pay. After we had three games in two weeks, it's true that it's complicated, there's fatigue in the legs. But here we are not going to look for excuses, we will say that we have not been able to be efficient on this game.


Now your next personal goal is the She Believes Cup next week with les Bleues. This is a big challenge for the French team, which has been much changed in recent months. We saw Corinne Deacon just now in a mixed zone. How does this tournament look like then?

The She Believes Cup remains a [friendly] tournament. We're going to take it as preparation matches for the 2019 World Cup and once again we have to do our training, show that we can have a place [in A]. This is our goal to all team France.


Compared to Montpellier where you have a lot of automatisms with your teammates as we saw in this match, team France, it's a little more difficult, you may have less because you you see less suddenly. Do you think that you will not lose your automatisms on your side in France at this tournament? It is difficult to create harmony in selection currently with the turn over in particular?

Not at all. Yes it's difficult, after there are very good players [in A] so it's simple, when one moves it depends on the other. After that is understanding in football. If we all understand the same football, we will play our game, and it may be less difficult [in front of our opponents]