'Keeping The Focus' - Miquel's Man Utd Preview

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'Keeping The Focus' - Miquel's Man Utd Preview

Amandine Miquel explained how improvements have been made to the team ahead of their test against Manchester United this weekend.

2024-11-17T09:00+00:00

by Matthew Temple

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17 Nov, 2024

from Belvoir Drive

'Keeping The Focus' - Miquel's Man Utd Preview

Amandine Miquel explained how improvements have been made to the team ahead of their test against Manchester United this weekend.

Matthew Temple

2024-11-17T09:00+00:00

'Keeping The Focus' - Miquel's Man Utd Preview

Amandine Miquel explained how improvements have been made to the team ahead of their test against Manchester United this weekend.

Matthew Temple

2024-11-17T09:00+00:00

'Keeping The Focus' - Miquel's Man Utd Preview

Amandine Miquel explained how improvements have been made to the team ahead of their test against Manchester United this weekend.

Matthew Temple

2024-11-17T09:00+00:00

'Keeping The Focus' - Miquel's Man Utd Preview

Amandine Miquel explained how improvements have been made to the team ahead of their test against Manchester United this weekend.

Matthew Temple

2024-11-17T09:00+00:00

With five points from their first seven games, LCFC Women return home to face Manchester United this weekend and Amandine Miquel admits the Foxes must be on top of their game should they want to get their second win of the campaign.

The main points from the Manager's press conference at Belvoir Drive follow below...

Dealing with the situation

City were beaten 1-0 by West Ham last time out.

It's not been an easy introduction to the Barclays Women's Super League for the former Stade de Reims manager who has seen too many injuries plague the squad in the early part of the season.

"It's part of the job," Miquel admitted. "Sometimes things go exactly as you want, which is good, and other times it doesn't. But that's why we have this great job and why I'm here.

"The main quality of a manager I think is to adapt, and take the positive side of things, even if that is hard sometimes, and make sure we get all the players fit that we have.

"We need to keep the people around us focused and positive everyday."

Lack of goals

City have withstood many injuries in forward areas this term.

Scoring just twice in seven games has not made the objective of getting points on the board easy, but Miquel believes there is enough quality in the squad to turn that around and become a more offensive outfit.

She added: "For now, we are working as hard as we can to improve that offensive stat. It's not ideal, but we should also reflect that 80 or 90 per cent of the injuries are on offensive players, which doesn't help.

"But we still have players that are fit and can attack and now we are working hard with them to put them in the best position to score."

Defensive stability

Commending the defensive stability.

On a positive note, City do boast an impressive defensive record, conceding more than one goal just once, keeping two sheets on their journey as well.

"It was something that was important to us, because the team were taking too many goals last season," Miquel explained. "Of course, we wanted to work half on that and half on the offensive part but obviously we have focused more on the defence because there's where we have a greater choice of players.

"It has been going well so we're reinforcing that it's working well. So yes, we are happy that we have these defensive stats, but now not forgetting that we have three games to come (before the Christmas break) where we face teams that are prolific.

"We have to be brutal with our style of play and make sure we work on both ends of the pitch."

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