And the coach of Rodez he thinks what about the performance of the weekend of his team against PSG? Just after the match, we went to meet Ruthenian coach Sébastien Joseph to get his reaction and his state of mind today at the beginning of the second half of the season with the RAF.

How did you apprehend this match?

We wanted to hold and create a feat, we did it on the first half. What is unfortunate is that we take goals a little beast, on boondoggles, moments when it is difficult to take out the ball. That's after Paris made his match on his side. They started with a type eleven so it shows the respect they have for our team and the fear they could have on this type of match anyway. Then they make the game easy by opening the score pretty quickly in the second half. We knew that it would come back very hard at that moment. Against this kind of team, one always wonders when will it happen [the goal]. What I regret is that we were not better when we had possession of the ball, in the operation of the game We had opportunities to come out more cleanly the game I think and we know not projected soon enough to try to play the against thoroughly so there was way to play in my opinion. After we were often too low, so it's true that suddenly we had difficulties to bring out the ball and the more we go back, the lower we play, and the lower we play, the more complicated.

To win against Guingamp next weekend, we'll have to shoot?

Yes it's like to win every game (laughs), it will shoot at goal. When we play against big teams, we know it's the same, we end up with 1 or two shots that's unfortunate but we must have the exploitation of the ball out in the offensive transition so as to be smarter in the blows that are played, and there I have the impression that we did not believe and that we were content to defend. Which is a bit of a shame because we did not have a speech that was rigorously defensive before the match, here we had an ambitious speech.

The coach's presence before the match, you told the girls?

Is he there? No, I did not know it, I was not likely to announce it, because you're teaching it to me.

Coach, we saw the game it was complicated today, with the lawn and the field, it was binding for your meeting?

Well I would say that it could be slightly advantageous for us, because it put a little less speed in the Paris game, a little bit of technical waste at times. Here we are the same, I think we had the opportunities against with a bit better ground, which could also allow us to play some shots. But I think that despite all that the gardener did a very good job, because there were already three games last week on this field, which was already waterlogged and he had made it extremely passable by compared to the rains that there was. Here we are in periods where the grounds are often like that. It must be accepted, after that also requires a riot of energy that is still extra in one camp as in the other and suddenly we on the whole match is very very hard physically. When we do not have the ball and play against a team that makes a lot of turns on this kind of terrain it's hard.

It's still a small satisfaction this game, where you do better than the go we will say (defeat 0-4)?

We're better than going, we're worse than last season, where we lost only 0-1 here. There is something positive, there is a negative. We held a half-time, that's a good thing, and we take goals on fouls. We also had the bars and poles that were a little with us, the score could have been a little heavier, if everything had smiled on them.

There how do you see your season, because we spoke Saturday with Cathy Couturier (central defender), she told us that you were not "in difficult position" because the goal is the maintenance. You still finished 5th last season, it's a little more difficult to hang this place (currently 9th)?

No, we are in a season logical compared to our means, compared to the experience we lost also losing some players this summer. We lose three players who alone had more than 250 D1 games. We get three players, who have a lot of talent but are now inexperienced so that is inevitably lost some place in the ranking compared to last season. But we must accept this role of training, to win in the years to come at this level.

What is the purpose of the second half of the season, what is the place you would like to have?

We would still like to finish between 5th and 7th / 8th place. Here is to see. There will also be direct confrontations that we want to negotiate better than we could do to go and try to grab as many points as possible.

Against the team against Paris, it is difficult to set up his game. Lemaître and Cugat have tried to go forward but it is very very complicated. How do we prepare his team during the week to take into account this aspect of football where there is always stronger than us, without really saying it?

The girls know it. I would say that psychologically, we do not need to prepare them to not have a lot of the ball. We know that we will have to put a lot of effort on the ground on the defensive side. These are the matches that are soliciting, but we try to find other values ​​in relation to this kind of match to try to progress precisely on the team block, on the coherence that we must have in our defensive movements, in this surpassing of oneself, in the taste of the effort to try precisely during the matches where one will have a little more the balloon and where one will be able a little more to play, to be able to transcend itself.

Since this season in particular, financially strong promoters and their structure are starting to rise, like Marseille or Bordeaux. Are you afraid of this kind of club, supported by big teams in Ligue 1?

No no no, we do not fear it, we must evolve with this D1, with what it requires today, in terms of resources and development strategy. But we are not afraid of these clubs because we also have great things to promote, infrastructure, and the means that will grow as well. After that, I think it's something positive for the development and the image of women's football. We are happy to play against PSG, against OM, against maybe LOSC, next season and here we know very well that it is more sales on the TV channels than for teams rather unknown, as the previous years. No, we have no fear about that, because we still have our place for a few years in this elite.

Last question, we did not see Clara Noiran, it's still a scorer of the squad. It is a choice a little reluctantly not to have it play against teams like Paris?

Yes it was a choice, because if you want, we had wanted to trust Océane Saunier, who seemed to us in relation to the Parisian characteristics to bring us more into the game in the possibility of holding the ball, in the aerial game, than what can Clara bring us? And then, Clara is today a girl who is in full confidence precisely. It's games that for an attacker are frustrating, they spend a lot of time defending, they do not have the ball. You said it, we end the match with no shots. So I would say, what is the use of undermining the energy capital and confidence of an attacker on a match like that? There is not any.

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