We might have been forced to come from behind three times before winning on penalties, but on the whole Jonas Eidevall was satisfied with our performance against Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Women’s Continental Tyres League Cup on Wednesday.
“I think it was a stronger performance than it was a result,” he said. “In many spells of the game, I think we played well, we created some good scoring opportunities as well.
“We got harshly punished on the mistakes that we made defensively and football is like that sometimes. At the end of the day, us getting two points from this game, we’re investing a lot of game time into the whole squad and we’re in a great position to advance now from the Conti Cup group stages.
“When you do mistakes, it’s how you react after that defines you and you could see that both on an individual and team level. That’s very strong and we don’t put our heads down. We keep believing, we keep going. That gave us a way back into the game.”
Kyra Cooney-Cross was named the Player of the Match and it wasn’t hard to see why. Pulling the strings and dictating the play, Kyra invited chants of ‘when she’s on the ball she’s magical’ from the home support.
“She’s a very good player on the ball, she can break lines, she’s explosive enough to dribble out of situations,” Jonas added. “She was very good today.”
On the home support, Jonas was delighted with the noise at Meadow Park in spite of the unpleasant weather conditions.
“They’re truly amazing and give us so much energy and it was such a joy to be able to repay them with two points here today and hopefully they all turn up in numbers on Saturday as well.”
It’s another north London derby on Saturday as we travel to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the Barclays Women’s Super League fixture.
“This is what we want to do,” Jonas said. “We want to play games that matter a lot to both us and to our supporters. Saturday we know is going to be an important game, it’s our last game before the Christmas break so let’s finish off as strong as possible.”
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