After the 0-4 victory of AS Monaco against Saint-Étienne, the man of the match and scorer during this meeting, Aurélien Tchouameni and the coach of ASSE, Claude Puel, spoke at the microphone of Canal +.
Aurélien Tchouameni (man of the match and scorer during the ASSE-ASM meeting): “I try to do what I can do best. The coach trusts me a lot and I try to get him back on the pitch. I feel like I’m progressing. The first part of the season allowed me to gain more consistency in the matches. Today we were keen to take the 3 points to increase the gap with Marseille. We had to do the job to take points from Paris or Lyon, which will face each other, after 8 days remain. We are competitors, if there is the possibility of going higher, we will seek higher, but for the moment we are concentrating on our game. I made all the youth selections, the next step is ‘are the A’s, but my focus is on the hopes first. “
Claude Puel (ASSE coach): ” It’s a tough night, I would say we don’t box in the same category. We came across a very good team from Monaco. They put in a lot of intensity and pressing. We ran a lot, a little emptiness. We couldn’t be fair on the balls that were collected. We lacked intensity and technical quality tonight. There are a lot of games this season where we came out frustrated and disappointed. This evening the step was too high, we must quickly move on to something else. Tonight we weren’t up to the level to compete with a great team. “