Pochettino: We've improved compared to the beginning of the season, and the challenge now is to keep improving

Live bar December 13 news In the End of the Round of Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain beat Monaco 2-0, and after the match, Paris Saint-Germain manager Pochettino attended the press conference.

How do you rate the team's performance tonight?

"In terms of the result of the game, I am satisfied. In terms of specific performance, we can do better. We are slowly improving. We are a very special team with some players and staff with special characteristics. To achieve great things, we must continue to improve ourselves and become stronger. We have a lot of talented stars in our squad and I believe that as long as we improve and make progress, our results will be better, and we will do it. We will be at our best in February or March next year to participate in the Knockout Stage of the Champions League and be more competitive in the Champions League. Today, we showed a lot of very positive aspects, our formation was very tight and we grabbed a lot of high balls. But as the game went on, we didn't keep the ball well. ”

You said on Saturday that your goal is to control the whole stadium in 90 minutes, but does what you call the paris Saint-Germain team style ensure that you can do that?

"I don't think there's a team in European football that dares to say that it can have complete control over the game in the 90 minutes of every game. Yesterday we also watched manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Bayern games. I know we have high demands on Paris Saint-Germain because we have a huge squad. The ideal situation now is to have complete control over the game by creating the opportunities yourself, which is a challenge, but given the intensity of the schedule, our players have their own characteristics and it's difficult to always make sure they're at their best with one game every three days. This is what all coaches are looking for, but it's hard to achieve. ”

Don't you feel like your team lacks control?

"We have improved since the start of the season. The challenge now is to go one step further. It's great that we didn't concede a goal against a good team like Monaco. The Monegasque players were all very physical, they tried to control the rhythm of the game and hinder our passing route. And the way we played today was different from what we showed in previous games against Bruges. But compared to that game, we were just as serious, just as professional, and just as good at what we did. When we don't have possession, we have to first make sure the defence is solid. ”

Donnarumma continues to play in this game, does this mean that Donnarumma will become the absolute main force of the team in the future?

'In some ways, it was because Navas had been sent off before, so he missed the game, while Paris Saint-Germain had confidence in both Navas and Donalumma.

Now that Icardi is getting fewer and fewer chances to play, would you suggest he leave the team on loan in the winter window?

"It's not the time to talk about people staying, we're focused on how best to end the journey in 2021."

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