Patrick Vieira
StrasbourgWill Still
Reims
Meeting Highlights...ABOUT THE MATCH
I was disappointed with the offensive performance in Toulouse. We hope that against Reims we will have more situations in front of goal. We accentuated the messages in this direction this week. We must make better choices, be better at making decisions. This is an area where we still fish too much.
...REIMS
Reims is a very difficult team to play against, quite aggressive, one of the strongest in the athletic field. They have great qualities in offensive transitions. Our last result at home against Rennes was very positive, we must keep this dynamic.
...INJURY REPORT
It will be too tight for Emanuel Emegha for Saturday. He will train individually this morning. For Marvin Senaya, it will also be complicated for this weekend but we will try to get him back as soon as possible. Ibou Sissoko was ill yesterday but he will train today. For a few matches, Junior Mwanga has been playing a little less. It's healthy competition. It's up to the players to challenge themselves. Andrey took a few weeks to adapt to the athletic aspect but since his first match he has been very comfortable. He has great maturity despite his age.
Patrick Vieira
Manager on Strasbourg...ABOUT THE MATCH
I was disappointed with the offensive performance in Toulouse. We hope that against Reims we will have more situations in front of goal. We accentuated the messages in this direction this week. We must make better choices, be better at making decisions. This is an area where we still fish too much.
...REIMS
Reims is a very difficult team to play against, quite aggressive, one of the strongest in the athletic field. They have great qualities in offensive transitions. Our last result at home against Rennes was very positive, we must keep this dynamic.
...INJURY REPORT
It will be too tight for Emanuel Emegha for Saturday. He will train individually this morning. For Marvin Senaya, it will also be complicated for this weekend but we will try to get him back as soon as possible. Ibou Sissoko was ill yesterday but he will train today. For a few matches, Junior Mwanga has been playing a little less. It's healthy competition. It's up to the players to challenge themselves. Andrey took a few weeks to adapt to the athletic aspect but since his first match he has been very comfortable. He has great maturity despite his age.
Will Still
Manager on Reims...ABOUT THE MATCHİ
I think that no matter the time in the season everyone will have a role to play and everyone will be important for Stade de Reims and for themselves. And I think this weekend is the perfect example of that. It's up to others to put themselves at the front of the stage and take responsibility for moving the team and their careers forward. RC Strasbourg? It's a very well-established team recently which has taken a lot of very interesting points. They also have important players for them who are absent. It's a well-balanced team, well thought out with once again an interesting dynamic so it will be difficult but it will be good for us to go and measure ourselves against that and see the solutions that we can draw from it.
...RACE
We wanted to position ourselves and we did it. We surely should have and could have taken a few more points and moved up in the standings. The latest results have shown the difficulty of Ligue 1 in general and not just for us. Obviously it's exciting and you want to go as far as possible and push as much as possible and that's exactly what we're going to try to do.
...OPPONENT
Strasbourg is a very good team with very good players. They are in a good dynamic and having taken the points they took in the last match I think they are playing more and more liberated with less pressure. We expect a difficult match, it's up to us to play with our values and our qualities to try to win there. I have this chance, that we are in a very good situation where we can have a very good season and have great emotions at the end so I hope that we will manage to seize this opportunity. Although it arrives my assessment remains largely positive. I was able to see the club grow, progress and become more and more ambitious. Of course, it will be a great end to the story if I can leave the club by finishing in beauty.