Matuidi demands flying start to season for PSG

Blaise Matuidi has urged his Paris Saint-Germain team-mates to start the Ligue 1 season as
strongly as possible after they lifted the Trophee des Champions.

The capital club were held to a 2-2 draw at Reims on the opening day last term, having also played
out stalemates against Montpellier and Lorient respectively in 2013-14 and 2012-13.
However, PSG followed their International Champions Cup victory with a 2-0 triumph over Lyon on
Saturday and Matuidi now wants to see a strong beginning to their league title defence next Friday
against Lille.
"Looking at the match, we deserved this trophy. Now, we cannot relax, we must continue working as
we have done," the France international said afterwards.
"We know PSG always do badly at the start of the championship. We're going to try to change that."
Serge Aurier and Edinson Cavani scored the goals in Saturday's win but full-back Maxwell believes
Laurent Blanc's side should have won by more.
"We've started the season well, but it's still too early to judge whether it's better than last season
or not," said the Brazilian.
"There are a lot of matches left to play. It wasn't a perfect game, though we controlled it. We scored
two and could've scored more. We can always do better."