Temur Ketsbaia held the regular press conference in the technical center “Basa”, where Georgian team gathered on Monday. One day remained until the match against France – this is the first match of our team this season and against such opponent.
Two days ago, Ketsbaia talked much about general problematic issues, this time he concerned the issues before the match.
- At first there is a match against France and then against Finland. Do you focus on the second match more? This because, Finland is a direct competitor in the group.
- No. every match is important for us. We are not in such situation to pay a less attention to any match. It is true, that the fate of the third place will be decided against Finland, but it does not mean that we will not take the optimum composition on the field against France.
- Against Spain the team played with security system. Will you do the same against France?
- We must play organized. At first we must resolve the issue of defense and then we have to wait for our chances. To tell you that we will play an offensive football, it will be lie.
The next was the question of French journalist, who asked about the fail of Karim Benzema and how the Georgian coach will estimate the forward of “Real”:
- I am not coach of French team. I know that, if Benzema cannot score in two matches in a row, they criticize him. Then, what can we say…
- How productive is the preparatory period and is the team ready psychologically and physically to show such results in this match to achieve the third place?
- No matter how many time we have, the team is such thing, that it is never enough. Compared to earlier, now it is much better situation: we began practice on Monday and on Tuesday we were with full staff. The boys are also doing their best to be ready for this match. We hope for the support of our fans too, as they did it before. If we take the 3rd place, it will not be bad for such group. It is a matter of course, that the group where are Spain and France is certainly the strongest. By the way, we had a difficulties about visa before the match, in Paris, and in fact we had one day to prepare. The French are free to come, they have not difficulties in this. Obstacles are often with us and this stirs us.
- Do you think that Ribery wins “Golden Ball?
- He won the Champions League. He became also the best player if the league and why not, maybe he wins “Golden Ball”.
- Ribery attacks from the left, and Ucha Lobjanidze, our right defender, is without playing. This is additional worry and what will you do, do you put 2 men for Ribery?
- This problem is obvious, but if I put two men others will get free. France does not have only Ribery, they have other top-class players too.
The team will practice on “Basa” at 18:00 today. Also, at this time, the press conference of Didie Deschamps, coach of French team, will be held, after which the practice of “Cocks” will begin.
Ilia Nanobashvili
