Henry: "I'll see if I can take a license …" – Ligue 1 2018-2019 – Football

Given the nature of the evening visitor and its gaping deficiencies, the worst was to fear for Monaco. Unfortunately for the club of the Principality, there was no miracle Sunday. PSG was much, much too strong for this ASM. The reigning French champion has rolled the men of Thierry Henry, swept 4-0, exactly on the same score in the Champions League on Tuesday against Brugge.

This duel between the last two champions of France was especially between the extra-terrestrial Paris, alone on his planet, and the penultimate rank. After 13 days, 32 points and a world separate the PSG Monaco. "We play the maintenance, we play nothing but the maintenance", commented Thierry Henry, still looking for his first victory as a coach.

Optimistic, despite everything

The former glory of the French team was not completely depressed mode after this new shipwreck. He scratches, looks for the positive, and ends up finding some. A little. "There was a reaction, believes there. I will continue to fight. We must remain optimistic. Even with all our injuries, we have created opportunities against PSG. " He also refutes a behavior problem in some of his players. "Are players letting go? Not for me. I did not see that tonight. (Editor's note, Sunday) "

Thierry Henry even manages to experience some (small) regrets: "We have a big opportunity to come back to 1-1. We do not even shoot. I saw what he (Falcao) wanted to do. Do I understand it? No ! In the second half, Mboula has the opportunity to return to 2-1. But hey, today, there was a difference in quality, safety between the two teams. We knew it was going to be hard on Paris."

Beyond the accounting balance sheet, apocalyptic since Monaco still has only seven points and must only the sinking of Guingamp in the second half Saturday against Lyon not to be red lantern, what worries the most Monaco coach is the accumulation of injuries that affects his group. The infirmary was overflowing already, and it did not settle Sunday night. "What worries me is that we lost Mboulahe pleads. We still lose two players tonight, it starts to do a lot. "

So, obviously, he wonders. The fault of the summer preparation that would have failed? "It's a real question. I ask myself every day"But these are the answers he would need, and the solutions, given how he handled the irony in a press conference, not sure he still has any." Asked about the possibility of a medical joker, he preferred to play the card of the twelfth degree: "I'll see if I'm taking a license … Joking aside, I'll see what we can do. You have to do with the League. "

With the international truce coming, the ASM will have two weeks to heal its wounds. She will need it. One word of order for Henry: to work again and again. With those who are in a position to do it, anyway. "Those who are able to play will go in selection, we will work with those who remain"he blows, before concluding, jaded:"for now, it's still the same scenario. We lose our games, and we lose our players as a bonus. " These two issues will need to be addressed. And quickly, if possible.