The 32nd round of Ligue 1 fixtures pitted RC Strasbourg Alsace against Paris Saint-Germain this Saturday at 17:00 at the Stade de la Meinau. With just a few days to go before the return leg against Arsenal, the capital club lost 2-1 to RCSA with a heavily reshuffled squad (video Highlights Strasbourg/PSG). Félix Lemaréchal, Strasbourg’s midfielder and goalscorer, spoke to DAZN about the victory over one of Europe’s finest teams:
Lemaréchal: “Paris? It’s difficult to contain them”.
A nice goal tonight?
I followed the action, but the most important thing is that Habib was the center of an opportunity just before and I had asked him to put it back, so he put it back and I didn’t ask myself any questions and I shot and scored.
How do you contain PSG?
It’s something we’ve been working on all week. We watch all the Champions League and league games and they’re a team we watch a little more. We know them a little better than all the other teams. It’s hard to contain them, but they’re still the best team in the league and one of the best teams in Europe, and we’ve managed to work hard on the pitch, putting our hearts and lungs into it, and we’ve succeeded.
Do you work on your goal action in training?
Yes, yes, of course, touching the center of the goal to get out to the wingers, and a diving player is a game we play a lot.
What is it that the coach rehearses to make this team what it is?
I’m going to please the coach here, and every day at the meeting it says “intensity”, it’s something he’s been harping on since the start of the season. These are things we try to apply and that we manage to apply. It paid off today.
