“What do you think of this evening?
We must pay tribute to the players of Pays de Cassel, to the public. The stadium was magnificent, that’s also the Coupe de France. We knew that the opponent would be very compact and would show a lot of energy at the start of the game. It took us a long time to get into the game and create chances. The fact of being able to chain goal on goal, it gave this kind of match.
“I spoke to Neymar at half-time to make sure he would be calmer in the second half”
Why did you maintain Neymar and Mbappé throughout the meeting?
I judged that they needed to play and replay together. I spoke to Neymar at half-time to make sure he would be calmer in the second half. From there, I left it. It was important that they could play together with Kylian. They combined a lot, looked for each other a lot. They have achieved some interesting things.
Neymar has been warned. He seemed annoyed…
He has a contact game, when he picks up between the lines, he wants to eliminate the opponents so…
You said you had exchanges during the tour in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Did you see that these exchanges carried this evening?
The team behaved well as a whole, it played a very serious match, in order to respect the opponent and the people who came to the stadium. So I fielded a very competitive team. We played an interesting match afterwards, so we shouldn’t draw too many conclusions. We will face teams that will be much superior in the coming weeks.