PSG head coach Luis Enrique reacts to their 3-1 UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg win over Aston Villa
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Parc des Princes, Paris, France
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00:00Obviously, we are really disappointed with it.
00:05How are you?
00:06Good evening, Luis. Giovanni Castali, the team.
00:13Before the meeting, you told us that you would expect a good match against Liverpool,
00:18with the score that is only different with the victory.
00:21This evening, it's what you saw? Thank you.
00:25Good evening. No, I didn't say that.
00:28I answered a question that I would like.
00:31What game would I like?
00:33It's different. Thank you.
00:37But I think we've seen a game like the one we expected.
00:43Contra a rival in the back and with very good points of attack,
00:52trying to damage us with the ball and with those transitions.
00:58I think the game has had a little bit of everything.
01:02We've controlled the game, which was our first goal.
01:05To be able to have a goal.
01:07It's always difficult to attack a rival in a middle-down block.
01:12But I think we've been constant.
01:14And then, in a game that they've pressed very well, they've made a transition
01:20and we've made a goal practically the first time they came to the area.
01:25This has left us a little indecisos.
01:30But I think the team has shown again that they are prepared to compete against each game.
01:38What's the goal against the rival?
01:40We've been able to win the goal of Desk, that has been very important to us
01:43to relax with a situation of equality.
01:45And in the second part, again, I believe we've earned to mark more goals and win the game.
01:52The goal of the last minute, that is a bit of a brock on our game.
01:57So I think we've achieved the goal we had in this first game.
02:01Now it's obvious that everything is all in line,
02:05and that we still have to play that second game.
02:12Good evening coach.
02:13Yesterday you said that you called your players to be calm,
02:17that it was the key of the match.
02:19They've still reversed the score.
02:21What is your opinion on that?
02:23Desgraciadamente, and fortunately,
02:29because when a team goes forward,
02:32without having created a goal,
02:35it's a delicate moment for the team,
02:40but it hasn't happened several times in important games.
02:44The team keeps playing the same way,
02:47keeps dominating the game
02:49and trying to find the necessary resources
02:52to overcome a team that defies very well,
02:54that is physically very strong,
02:56that has a very good coach,
02:58and that has a lot of level.
03:00I think the result really reflects
03:02the difference between us and them today.
03:06And it premies our fight and our effort.
03:12Thank you very much.
03:14Luis, good evening.
03:16How do you see the match next Friday?
03:18Do you feel it already in the mid-final or not at all?
03:22Well, if we look at what happened yesterday,
03:28in the Champions day,
03:30I think we all agree
03:32that the issue of the favoritism
03:34doesn't have much sense in this competition.
03:38What does that mean?
03:40It doesn't matter what the result,
03:42it doesn't matter what we have won,
03:44what we have won, what we have won,
03:46what we have won, what we have won.
03:48In Birmingham, it's clear,
03:50it's trying to win the match.
03:52That's the only goal we have.
03:54We don't know how to play on another way,
03:56we don't know how to play on a team,
03:58we don't know how to play against it.
04:00We don't know how to play against it,
04:02we don't know how to play on a team.
04:04because the rival will push, but our goal will be to win the game, to have the ball, to attack more than the rival.
04:11It will be difficult to do it in Birmingham, I have no doubt.
04:15But these are our weapons and that's what we're going to try to do.
04:34What do you think of Desiree Douai? Thank you.
04:46No, no, no, no, I don't want to be afraid of because a player is in the same way.
04:50All the players who are in the last third of the field, for me, are wonderful.
04:55Because we have a lot of players with that ability.
04:58Desiree Douai is a special player in the one-on-one,
05:01and against a replacement of this type,
05:04to be able to play with little spaces is very difficult.
05:07Desiree has that capacity, that quality.
05:09Then he has a shoot, he has defensive work,
05:12he has everything that a player needs to be in the Paris Saint Germain.
05:17I am very lucky because even the players that stay in the locker room
05:22have the quality to be able to play,
05:24and that has been shown throughout the entire season.
05:27The Kangin Lee, the Barkola, the Warren, the Lucas Hernandez,
05:31the Gonzalo Ramos,
05:33that is the greatness that I have as a player in the Paris Saint Germain.
05:37And, I repeat, that a regaté in the last third,
05:41is never a problem because it enables us,
05:45if the game is good, to be able to center or shoot,
05:48if it is bad, to be able to press.
05:50That is one of our main characteristics,
05:54to be able to press after the loss.
05:57Good evening, coach.
05:58Ilyas Peters, 90min.
05:59We saw Aston Villa with a pretty defensive device,
06:02which we may not wait.
06:04Did you wait for it?
06:05And how did you find the formula for the Desley?
06:10Before the games, one always asks what the rival is going to do.
06:18We have seen a lot of games from Aston Villa this season.
06:22They have played at Liverpool, City, Chelsea, Arsenal,
06:28and have always been a offensive team,
06:31a team that has tried to play from the back.
06:33Today I think they have tried to play,
06:35but we have pressed very well.
06:36We have forced the rival to play a lot of longs.
06:39We have been especially fine in the second ball,
06:42and in the disputes.
06:43I think we have deserved the result of the game
06:47and we have been superiores.
06:48That is my opinion.
06:50But, I repeat,
06:52independent of that they have been a bit more defensive
06:56than what we expected,
06:57I think the individual quality of their players
07:01is of high level.
07:02That's why they are all international.
07:04And it is a team that has a lot of resources.
07:13Good evening, Luis.
07:15Diego Torres, The PaÃs.
07:16I wanted to ask you about the one-to-one
07:18against one, that you said.
07:20What does it have to be peculiar
07:21the regate of Cavaraskelia?
07:24It seems that when he is regating,
07:27he looks at the porter,
07:28he looks at the marker,
07:29he looks at the marker,
07:30he looks at the ball,
07:31he looks at the ball,
07:32that you see it more daily.
07:34Is it so?
07:35He looks at the ball or not?
07:37Well, I don't see if he looks at the ball
07:39or not.
07:40It is completely the same.
07:41But,
07:42what is evident is that Cavaraskelia
07:44is a very versatile player,
07:47which we have already wanted to be
07:50from our coming here.
07:51The previous season
07:52could not be,
07:53this summer last year not.
07:55We have already done it.
07:56When we were already
07:58not supposed to be able to be able
08:00to be able to be able to be able
08:02to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able.
08:03He has this project that is juventude with much quality, with ballon, with much quality, without ballon.
08:11He has some defensive efforts of high level, with much ambition,
08:15which is a quality sine qua non for all the players that form our team.
08:19And for a player like me, it's a wonderful to have a player with that juventude,
08:24but at the same time with that personality and experience that helps us as a team.
08:29And today he had a great goal with that sensational goal,
08:34that he already did the day of Liverpool, and that he had a great goal for out of the game.
08:39Today he had a great goal, and today the team had a great goal,
08:42which I think we deserve.
08:44Good evening, Danny Hill, in direct for the Cardena Cope.
08:48What value do you give to the team after the 0-1,
08:52that madurez that you are showing in this type of games,
08:55despite the age of only 23,
08:58you are the youngest team of the Champions team.
09:01I think it has been, throughout this season,
09:05there have been many delicate moments,
09:09in this sense of doing everything to win a game,
09:13and suddenly suffering circumstances,
09:17and that the rival can be ahead without it.
09:19We have always said that football is not fair,
09:21and you have to be able to accept these types of situations.
09:24I think the team has been at a very high level defensive level,
09:27if not, it is impossible to minimize the Aston Villa as we have done.
09:31But, I repeat, I think,
09:36to keep insisting on what you know that you are doing well,
09:40and that you are going to return from this series of problems,
09:43it makes you stronger.
09:45That has been throughout the competition,
09:47and now it is a very good result,
09:50but the goal, I repeat, would be the same,
09:53independent of the result that we would have achieved in this first game.
09:57Hello, coach.
09:59Saeed Hamda.
10:00Sur ce match,
10:01you have decided to titularize Désiré Douai,
10:04while against Liverpool,
10:05you had notamment mis Barcola.
10:06Are you waiting for a very low block,
10:08which you will not necessarily put in front of Barcola
10:11on his ability to take deep deep?
10:13What was your reflection to define your team?
10:17Just before you, Unai Emery was there,
10:19he was very optimistic about the return match.
10:21Do you understand his optimism
10:23after the start of the match today?
10:25What do you think of Unai?
10:30I don't have anything to say about Unai.
10:32It is evident that he has to be optimistic.
10:34I am also very optimistic.
10:36We have to go to Birmingham to compete,
10:40to demonstrate our level,
10:42at home and outside.
10:44What you have told me,
10:47when a player takes decisions,
10:50I think we have to wait less spaces,
10:52which is what has happened.
10:54With less space,
10:55I think Désiré is one of the most decisive players,
11:00because he does not need space to compete,
11:03because he is very capable,
11:04because he has dribbling in more short spaces.
11:09Bradley is also a very desequilibrant player,
11:12which has gone very well in the second part,
11:14and has done a very good job.
11:17But I have had to decide.
11:19Today, there have been four or five players
11:21who have been on the bench,
11:22who could have started without any doubt as players.
11:25And I think that is one of the greats of our team.
11:27There are minutes and games important for everyone.
11:31The important thing is,
11:32that players are prepared to compete.
11:34to compete.
11:36I just want to ask you,
11:37over the last year and a half,
11:38you talked about it being a young team,
11:40and what's been key in their development to perform,
11:42as the team has against Liverpool back to back,
11:44in the performance we saw tonight,
11:45against Aston Villa in the biggest competition?
11:47Well, I think from the last year,
12:03and especially this year,
12:04we changed more or less our DNA,
12:09trying to sign young players with a lot of quality.
12:14We have that resources,
12:16and I think it's important to try to develop our idea,
12:21not only with the young players,
12:23which is important,
12:24but also with the experienced players.
12:27And I think we are in that mix,
12:29that important mix,
12:30with the confidence and with the enough energy
12:34to try to go through the next phase
12:37and try to make history in Paris,
12:41because it's our goal,
12:43trying to win all the trophies,
12:46and it's an ambitious goal,
12:49but at the same time,
12:51it's a motivating situation for us,
12:54and I'm very happy with the performance today,
12:57very happy with the performance the whole year,
13:01and I hope we can continue in that way.
13:04Next question.
13:06Good evening,
13:07here's Manu Terradillos,
13:08Onda Cero,
13:09Radio Estadio de Noche.
13:10I wanted to ask you,
13:11what level of Alivio has felt
13:12with the third goal,
13:13with the number of Nuno Mendes,
13:14for the difference,
13:15with Birmingham,
13:16with a single goal,
13:17or with two,
13:18after the game they had done?
13:20I think that the goal in the last minute
13:22reflects or premies
13:26what we have done
13:27throughout the previous 89-90 minutes.
13:30Alivio,
13:32I repeat,
13:33we're not going to speculate,
13:34we're not going to speculate,
13:35we're not going to speculate,
13:36we're not going to speculate with any team,
13:37I would say,
13:38with any team,
13:39I would say,
13:40much less with a team of this quality.
13:41If we want to go to the semifinals,
13:43we have to win the game,
13:45we have to do damage to the rival,
13:47we're going to have more space than here.
13:49We are a team that dominates the transitions,
13:52a team that is very fast,
13:54very versatile,
13:56very habilidos,
13:57which is a stage that we also know.
14:00In fact,
14:01when we're winning the games
14:03in our league,
14:04the teams decide to attack ourselves
14:06and generate space.
14:07The Aston Villa will have to attack more
14:09than what he did here,
14:10which I consider interesting
14:12whenever we can be at the level.
14:15I repeat,
14:16a very attractive,
14:18very difficult,
14:19I don't have any doubt
14:20that it will be difficult,
14:21as it was in Anfield,
14:22but I repeat,
14:25the word specular
14:27does not exist in our vocabulary.
14:29Our goal is to win the game
14:32at Birmingham.