Thomas Meunier: 'All eyes on us'

PRESSURE
"Pressure is constant at a club like Paris Saint-Germain. It's a big club, a big city...All eyes are on us. Here, you have to handle the pressure. It's becoming a habit. You quickly get used to it. Pressure? You must try not to feel it and think about what people will think if you make a mess of a pass. You have to feel the pressure in relation to yourself. If you think about the whistles you might hear if you mess up a pass, your match is over. It's also a habit to learn. When I started my professional career, at the start, when there was a match in front of 30,000 people or things didn't go so well, when you are beaten one-on-one and the crowd is disappointed, you ask yourself questions, you go over your performance 50 times. Here, it's different. Little by little, you get used to that sort of thing."

TEAM SPIRIT
"I can get annoyed with a teammate for a bad pass and then congratulate him five seconds later for a successful one. It's just nervous tension, which is normal on the pitch, the desire to do well, that everything works. It's the spirit of competition, always trying to find the right solution. Having said that, not everything can be perfect, it's almost impossible. In a team like ours, you can allow yourself to ask a little more than in another because there are some very talented players here who have more quality."

THOMAS TUCHEL
"He works a lot on communication with the players, on the psychology. At certain times, some need a pat on the shoulder, a smile or to talk to him or the staff. They're just like him. It's very important. The coach laughs a lot, but when you have to work, you have to work. It's already happened two or three times that he stops and says: 'No, now it has to be done like this.' He has his ideas, but he has a clearly laid-out way of doing things. We just have one thing to do: follow it."

TACTICS
"The coach doesn't want a player standing still, but always moving, constant pressure, play it simple...the fundamentals of football. One or two touches, movement, one-twos, overlapping...our opponents have to end up getting pulled out of position, knowing which players to mark where. That's what we work on in training. The 3-5-2? It's a system I like, because it's the one I play in with the national team. It keeps the team high up the pitch and means we can constantly put pressure on our opponents. It's a system to be worked on. It has to be well-oiled but it could suit Paris Saint-Germain."