Gastien evokes the “soul supplement” of Clermont

Pascal Gastien (Clermont coach, 2-1 winner at Angers): “We are still widening the gap, the victories do us good. We are going forward. We break all our records but when we have only had one season in Ligue 1, we have to. We were extremely serious, rigorous. We made the necessary commitment, we have the chance to open the scoring. We gave ourselves the means to win. Afterwards, we have the success that the SCO does not have. We had raced a lot against Rennes (Wednesday) and today we didn’t give up, we managed to hold on until the end. We didn’t steal anything, whether against Rennes or here. We make our merry way. We are not above the teams we meet. It comes down to a few things. But we may have this extra soul and we have to manage to keep that. We are consistent, we are always difficult to beat, apart from the first match against PSG. This is what makes our strength, we are united, we have this desire to move forward, to progress. But all our matches are close, it’s obvious that we have no margin on anyone. We saw it in the Coupe de France».