It’s already the evening of the last chance for the women’s PSG. Beaten during the first four days of the Champions League, the Parisians are the only ones with zero points and currently occupy last place in the standings for this first phase of the competition.
To try to believe in a place in the top twelve and therefore in a qualification for the play-offs, it will be necessary at all costs to glean points against OH-Louvain, this Tuesday, December 9 at the Parc des Princes (9 p.m.), an opponent a priori within its reach, currently 11th in the ranking and therefore in the nails.
“Of course tomorrow’s match is decisive,” conceded coach Paulo Cesar at a press conference. We can’t fail, we will try to do the best possible so that things go well and we can obtain the result we are missing in the Champions League. »
“I think we have the level to continue,” he assured. We lack realism in both surfaces, offensively and defensively. At times we had players who were not having a good day. We still have one possibility, the last possibility to continue but our destiny is not in our hands. »
The Sakina Karchaoui asset
To achieve this, PSG can rely on the performances of its captain Sakina Karchaoui, who shone with the French team against Sweden last Friday, but more broadly on those of her team in the championship and in particular on its big victory in Marseille last Friday (1-5).
“We were efficient and realistic from start to finish,” assures Paulo Cesar. I hope that tomorrow we can have this efficiency, this desire to score goals. » But we will also have to count on missteps from the opponents to hope to hang on and give themselves the right to dream of qualifying in a week on the Benfica pitch.
“We are in reconstruction so it is not easy to already have results,” explains Paulo Cesar. We had quite interesting content on all the Champions League matches, we did not dominate but we were close to victory. We know that it’s the details that count at a high level and we failed. »
