Luis Enrique: 'We're staying focused on the present'
Men's football•
The Paris Saint-Germain coach spoke to PSG TV and the media ahead of Saturday's Ligue 1 Matchday 10 encounter with Troyes at the Parc des Princes (9:05pm CET).
"It was an unusual match with four goals in eight minutes, which isn't the normal. It's almost bizarre, difficult to play. I don't like this kind of game. I much prefer to win rather than lose, but normally there's not that sort of difference between the teams. I think it's a little bit the same thing between Lens and Como. It's an accident, it can happen to any team. It can happen in football, but it's not the norm. Villarreal is in the past, Troyes is another match. There's a lot of expectation and that's why I'm concerned."
"The best way of showing respect to your opponent is to keep playing to the max, keep playing with intensity, that's respect, not nutmegging people or other things. It's like the All Blacks in rugby; they do the haka and then they're machines. That's the mentality I like. You can be superior, regardless of the result, but respect is the way you play football."
"We know there's a lot of expectation against Troyes. Everyone expects us to score a lot of goals, but that's not football. We have to stay focused on this game. If we're thinking about Villarreal and start the Saturday's game distracted...you can play badly or well, but it's always with the same intensity. It's like that that you can achieve new things, by staying focused on the present. If we win on Saturday, it'll be the first time that we have won all our games between the two international windows, that's a source of additional motivation."
"They are all young, even Marquinhos who is the most experienced of them. For me, David Boly's goal, when you see the players' reaction...they are all delighted for him, even more so than when they score themselves. That shows the team spirit. That goal represents our team. It's a very happy moment. The most important thing is not the wins, it's what remains, the relationships between the people. That's the best feeling you can have."
"I have never looked ahead to predict how many matches we're going to win. You have to adapt to each match, each opponent. You don't know how many players are going to be injured, there's a lot of things you can't control. We're staying focused on the present."