Brest v PSG – Paris are worse than the dentist, says Eric Roy

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·26 October 2025

Brest v PSG – Paris are worse than the dentist, says Eric Roy

This Saturday, as part of the 9th matchday of Ligue 1 2025-2026, Paris Saint-Germain faced Brest at the Stade Francis Le Blé. Eric Roy, coach of the Brest team, stopped for a press conference after Paris’s 0-3 victory (video highlights Brest/PSG). He spoke about the suffering that is a match against Paris, with a very particular comparison.

Roy: “Much more difficult, and I was going to say, it hurts much more.”

“It’s funny because I was at the dentist three days ago. I had a resin filling come out. I can assure you that facing PSG is much more difficult than going to the dentist. Much more difficult, and I was going to say, it hurts much more. Because I have an unfortunate tendency: when I see my players running after the ball, I run with them, and I suffer with them. So today, inevitably, we suffered a lot.”

Less hope than before.

“Three or four years ago, when we played against PSG, when we prepared for the matches, I always told my boys, OK, it’s a great team, there are individual talents, we’ll have to be careful, maybe they’ll make the difference, but at any moment, we could be capable of existing in the match, we would be capable of existing in the match, because we would indeed be able to string passes together, to create situations. And now, today, it’s getting more and more complicated. Even in preparing for the match, for a long time, I kept asking myself: ‘What am I going to be able to say to my players to try to make them believe that we can exist in this match?’ There you go. We almost managed it, but we missed it again.”

We can at least acknowledge that Eric Roy knows how to speak very honestly and with expressions that are a bit different from usual. And we can clearly understand his thoughts. This PSG seems to be a very special challenge, full of difficulties. Notably, because coach Luis Enrique knows how to change the players on the field while always maintaining a philosophy that is exhausting for the opponent.

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All this, while knowing how to adapt to the other team. The Parisians very often find solutions against a low block, against pressing, if the opponent wants to counter quickly, if they try to keep possession of the ball… So, the opposing coach has to think deeply to prepare his team. And in the end, very often, there’s the feeling that his players were powerless against Paris.

But hope must be kept, because a match is never won in advance and no one can always win. The key is to succeed in passing on that hope to the players, without a conceded goal becoming a tragedy either. Nothing can be avoided. Brest played with their strengths, without being able to count on a Parisian off-day. But there was no giving up, and that’s always positive.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.