Despite the disappointing draw away to Manchester United, Renee Slegers praised the team’s positive away performance.

Speaking after the final whistle, our interim head coach shared his thoughts on momentum swings, finding a clinical edge in the future and how we can find the next level against Brighton next week.

Here’s everything he had to say:

On whether he was disappointed the team didn’t win…

Yes definitely, I’m very pleased with the performance and the way the girls want to attack, we really do that, we really showed it on the pitch. Sometimes it’s easy to make promises and plans, but then it’s easy to put them into action. I think we did really well today, so I’m happy with my performance, there’s always things we can do better. I believe we dominated most of the game, we had a strong momentum especially at the beginning of the second half.

Finally we brought the score to 1-0. Obviously, when you have momentum for such a long period against a tough opponent, it’s really good to score a second so you can close out the game because you know you’re always going to have a chance or two and that’s what they did. They brought some players, they were good at set pieces and that’s why they scored.

On finding clinical advantage going forward…

Of course we’ll review it and make sure it’s part of the training week before the next game, so that’s all we can do. I know the players are very motivated.

Our defensive performance in the first half…

That’s an area of ​​our game that we said we could improve on and it’s part of our blocking plan and it was part of the plan for this game to be ruthless in the box and I think we did that really well, we protected our defence. box.

In focus as we head to Brighton…

Continue doing what we do by reviewing the details we can change or do better. But mostly the girls need to recover and be mentally and physically ready for Friday.