"I'm not boasting because we won": Laurent Bonadei after the French team's victory against Switzerland

"How do you analyze this victory (4-0) at the end of this necessarily special week? It was a week like any other where we prepare for our matches in the best possible way with a lot of seriousness, professionalism, and a lot of humility. The players really worked well this week and the victory is the realization of their investment, their commitment and their listening too. They respected to the letter what I asked of them.

What did you particularly like? I liked the spirit, the humility. Each player put themselves at the service of the team with a rhythmic start to the match where we had to quickly make the difference against this Swiss team that has counter-attacking capabilities. The commitment, too. When you lead quite quickly, you can fall into a false match, where things drone on. On the contrary, they tried to continue to put on a show for this magnificent Nancy crowd who gave their voice and encouraged us a lot. The quality of the pitch was excellent, which helps a lot to produce quality play.

"I know I'm in a project, I have a certain vision of this evolution of this French team."

When you see the team adhering to what you want, it must make you happy... Adherence is work. Since October-November, we've been working on this game plan. This (Friday) evening, the evening was perfect because we didn't concede a goal, we scored four. We hit the woodwork twice. We're approaching 800 passes, with a possession rate of 71%, which is what I had asked them for. Above all, in the second half, we managed to have possession in their half, which was important to be able to get close to the penalty area and create chances.

Does this victory validate the strong choices you've made recently? We shouldn't get carried away, first of all. When you're a coach, you make choices, it's not easy. I'm not boasting that we won and telling myself that I was right to make those choices. I don't know if I'm right or wrong. I know I'm in a project, I have a certain vision of this evolution of this French team. This (Friday) evening, we won, we're going to have a difficult match in Iceland (Tuesday, 6 p.m.) . We're going to have to approach this match with a lot of seriousness again.