Christophe Galtier (Saint-Etienne): “It is cruel” – The Équipe.fr

This is a big disappointment. It’s cruel for this group of players, for the club and the fans. If the act of taking a goal in the last minutes is renewed (after Monaco and Marseille), is that we still have to learn. Still, there are more pleasant learning. I hope it will be a lesson to the end of the season and seasons to come. We’ll have to evacuate quickly.

What did you say to your players in the locker room? Were you angry?

I did not say a word. I am hugely disappointed for them because they have done a beautiful European countryside. The preliminary round to the game tonight, we always tried to play to score goals. It happened in every game and we also won unlike last year. Tonight, it’s hard to be angry because the players gave everything. On two legs, we made 4-4 and is eliminated either through experience Basel or by our lack of experience. When we equalized and that holds the qualifying, “not we celebrate the goal, but the qualification. That is also why I immediately went to my players. Unfortunately, my message is not passed or the opponent had maximum success.

“You have to manage emotions …”

Celebrating qualification, is also inexperience?

it ‘ learning the highest level. You have to manage your emotions … So here, we had been mauled in the first period, so tonight we deserved the qualifying ‘. Unfortunately, on one of our early mistakes that should not commit, it’s goal. Then there is a bad reaction (of Eysseric) that puts us in ten against eleven. And in the end, there is this celebration that we is fatal. That’s a lot of things, it’s part of the management of emotions of a game.

From the moment you do not go out chickens, it’s not a very good course. When you go out in 16C …. Obviously the French teams must improve. One is always surprised to see teams of a lesser presumed Championship go after but I have found that there are teams scheduled to pick the Europa League. We were wrong. We must learn the lessons, also improve the calendar to be cooler to approach these matches there. Today, it’s not good for our football and our index to UEFA. Of the six teams involved in European Cups, there remains the largest GMP. I hope they go all the way. “