With the Women's Super League beginning this weekend, Jonas Eidevall wants his players to quickly turn attention to Sunday.
Our league season begins at Emirates Stadium against Manchester City, four days on from our UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying first leg defeat to BK Hacken.
Reflecting on the 1-0 loss in Sweden, Jonas said: "We knew it was going to be a tough place to come and play. I'm disappointed with the result. From a performance perspective, we created a lot of goalscoring opportunities. I think we should have scored at least one goal and of course, we need to defend the situation better where they score their goal.
"But now here we need to park this game. It's only half time. We need to look forward to the Manchester City game on Sunday. It's a completely different game. We need to refocus, recharge, get ready for that game and after that game, we have to look at Hacken again.
"We saw a lot of things that we adapted to during the game. They probably learnt a lot of things about us as well, but we will take those learnings into practice next week. We know it's going to be a different game at Boreham Wood. We know it's going to be on grass, we know it's going to be in front of our home crowd, and we're confident in playing there. We're confident in being able to turn this game here around. And we're going to give absolutely everything next week in order to go into the group stage.
"[Our supporters] were incredible and we need that. We need to create a 12th player. We need that against Manchester City, we need it next week at Boreham Wood against Hacken."
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