PSG/Lyon – Fonseca revels and reveals plan to catch Paris out | OneFootball

Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyonnais faced off this Sunday at the Parc des Princes as part of Matchday 30 of Ligue 1 2025-2026. A match that ended in a 1-2 Lyon victory (video highlights PSG/Lyon). After the match, Lyon coach Paulo Fonseca spoke to Ligue1+.

Fonseca: “Defensively, we really played a good match.”

The solidity you showed almost until the end, how did you work on that?

Yes, we know what kind of team PSG are. They are a very strong team, all their players are strong. I think we prepared well for the match, I said in the press conference that we had prepared well defensively for it. It was a match where we did not have much of the ball and the team had to be very balanced.

It is difficult for us to play without the ball. We defended very well, covered the spaces well, we were very united and I think that, defensively, we really played a good match. After that, we know that with players like Alfonso or Endrick we have the ability to attack. We did it well.

Fonseca: “It is a great satisfaction.”

How does it feel, as a man and as a coach, to tell yourself that you won tactically?

Yes, when we win, especially against teams like PSG, who are very strong teams and difficult to face, it is a great satisfaction, very, very great, and we think that we did things well. We did very well technically. I am mainly satisfied with the three points, which are very important for the team.

Fonseca: “We were more or less playing with five at the back”

Did you put on a tactical masterclass?

Yes, as I said, we had moments with a back four and moments with a back five. When the ball was in the middle we maybe had four defenders, but when the ball was on one side Abner dropped back into the defense. Tactically, the players were very, very good. In the second half, we were more or less playing with five at the back, because Paris are very strong on the right and at that moment we had the five players in the defensive line.

Was it a deliberate choice not to press the Paris defenders too high?

Yes, mainly, we talked about it at halftime because Zabarnyi is not a player who takes individual initiative, he is not a player who drives forward with the ball, so our players could stay in position without pressing those players too, too hard.

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