At the Parc des Princes,

It's a trainer's instruction as old as football, that the guy takes care of the first year chicks of Saint-Nicolas de Bourgueil or the pros of As Saint-Etienne.

And even more when we talk about Claude Puel, perhaps the most formative L1 coach at heart, used to manage post-adolescents still in training.

"GUYS FOCUSED AFTER THE GOAL WE DO NOT RELAX"

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And yet, AS Saint-Etienne relaxed for a minute on Sunday, while the plan was going without a hitch.

The perfect plan until Bouanga's goal

A half devoted to holding these two lines of four in defense without more offensive ambition than that, a little luck on the two / three pressure strokes from PSG (Sarabia post, duel missed by Mbappé in the area, penalty whistled and not whistled on the same action), then two changes of the runners (Bouanga and Nordin) to take advantage of the increasingly rare defensive folds of the Parisian attackers pressed for time from the 65th.

From the blackboard, materialized by this nice goal from Bouanga ten minutes from the end.

💬 "We are super disappointed."



After #PSGASSE, @mahdi_camara struggled to hide his disappointment as the scenario was so cruel.

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- AS Saint-Étienne (from 🏡😷) (@ASSEofficiel) April 18, 2021

We then had our noses on our live game, but we saw with one eye the entire Saint-Etienne team rushing towards the striker, as if the case had been heard, while everyone knows that ten minutes plus stoppage time, it counts double at the Park.

The time we raise our heads for good, and Mbappé had equalized on the dismissal.

"We celebrate the goal, we celebrate it far too long, and we concede the equalizer behind," lamented a Claude Puel disappointed to have passed so close to the big blow in Paris.

"We would have deserved a point, but this lack of experience, this effusion on the goal ... You have to know not to slack off in a match when you are able to raise your level of play as we have been doing lately."

Green a little naive in stoppage time

His players, however, showed character to get back into it at 2-1 against them, until this somewhat happy equalization of Romain Hamouma in the 92nd. But the match had not been rational for a long time, and when the 2-2 kicked off, we felt that everything could still change, while it would probably have been enough for the Stéphanois to hold out two or three minutes after the goal. de Bouanga to manage their end of the match without being overtaken by their emotionality. Before Icardi's ball hit, Di Maria had also touched the post, and Sainté still sinned out of naivety. Green, Moulin's replacement young goalkeeper, seemed slightly touched, but instead of taking the opportunity to break the rhythm, he stood up, gritting his teeth. Maybe that's why he doesn't jump on Icardi's noggin on the buzzer.

“It's hard for the players, who had a very good game in terms of animation, solidarity, cohesion.

We led them more than hard.

It's a formative match for them, they will be proud of their production when they take a step back ”.

Undoubtedly the most delicate, when we missed the opportunity to end 120 years of consecutive defeats at the Parc des Princes, or something like that.

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