PSG v Lens: Sage highlights Paris’s frustration and tactical issues | OneFootball

Paris Saint-Germain and Lens faced off this Sunday at Parc des Princes as part of the 4th matchday of Ligue 1 2025-2026. The match ended with a Parisian victory 2-0 (PSG/Lens video summary). After this match, the coach of the Lens team, Pierre Sage, spoke at a press conference. He regretted his team's inefficiency, without forgetting the progress in creating opportunities or the challenges to face against Paris on a tactical level.

Sage "we always find ourselves faced with the same reality."

Pierre Sage, is there a bit of frustration after a match like this?

There is the frustration of not having competed in the result, missing the different turns we could have taken in this match. To open the scoring, come back to the score or reduce the score at the end. That's this frustration. But today, there is also the awareness that we played a match to exist in this match.

But the first part of the answer makes us a little disappointed, because we always find ourselves faced with the same reality.

Sage "it opens up the field of possibilities."

It's always this offensive problem, of the last move or the penultimate move...

Yes, but in any case, we create situations, and we will continue to create them. We create them in different ways as well, so it opens up the field of possibilities. Now, we will manage to score more goals. We have already managed to score five in four matches, so we need to manage to increase the average.

In terms of frustration, is there a missing penalty on Florian Thauvin?

I don't know. In any case, you know my position on this: if the referee made this decision, it's because it's the right one.

Sage "they knew how to distribute themselves."

On a collective level, are you satisfied with the implementation?

Yes, even if we suffered for about fifteen minutes on our right side, where Bradley Barcola was. Not only on the two goals he scored, but also because with Lee, they knew how to distribute themselves: sometimes one in the inner corridor, the other in the width, and occasionally both were in the width.

This is an element that we had trouble managing. Once we managed to close these possibilities, they started to unbalance us from further away, with runs coming from behind. I think they created their biggest opportunity in this way, when Robin Risser made an important save in the first half.

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