‘They’ll Play With No Pressure’ – Miquel Previews Palace Game

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‘They’ll Play With No Pressure’ – Miquel Previews Palace Game

Crystal Palace’s confirmed relegation will make them no easier to beat this Sunday, believes Amandine Miquel.

2025-05-04T09:00+01:00

by Matthew Temple

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04 May, 2025

‘They’ll Play With No Pressure’ – Miquel Previews Palace Game

Crystal Palace’s confirmed relegation will make them no easier to beat this Sunday, believes Amandine Miquel.

Matthew Temple

2025-05-04T09:00+01:00

‘They’ll Play With No Pressure’ – Miquel Previews Palace Game

Crystal Palace’s confirmed relegation will make them no easier to beat this Sunday, believes Amandine Miquel.

Matthew Temple

2025-05-04T09:00+01:00

‘They’ll Play With No Pressure’ – Miquel Previews Palace Game

Crystal Palace’s confirmed relegation will make them no easier to beat this Sunday, believes Amandine Miquel.

Matthew Temple

2025-05-04T09:00+01:00

‘They’ll Play With No Pressure’ – Miquel Previews Palace Game

Crystal Palace’s confirmed relegation will make them no easier to beat this Sunday, believes Amandine Miquel.

Matthew Temple

2025-05-04T09:00+01:00

One last trip on the road awaits for LCFC Women this weekend, who travel to the VBS Stadium to face Palace, whose fate in next season’s Barclays Women’s Championship was confirmed with defeat to West Ham United last time out.

Seven points above them, one more win would still allow us to break records and hit a highest-ever points tally in the top flight.

‘I don’t look at the points’

We currently sit on 16 points, two off our highest-ever total.

Even though safety was secured for us last weekend with Palace’s defeat, there’s still plenty to play for and the focus remains on finishing the season as strong as possible.

“I don’t look at the points,” Miquel announced. “For me, the focus is the same focus as it has been all season, it’s to count the points after the last game.

“There’s two to go and we want to put pressure on the other teams.

“The players have been training well, and they want to keep working hard for the last two games, and then we will evaluate the season.

“It’s always been the goal for us to be better this season and improving compared to last, and even if that’s slow progress, it’s going in the right direction.”

‘It won’t be an easy game’

Crystal Palace's fate was confirmed last weekend.

The London outfit sit seven points adrift from the rest of the league, but the former Stade de Reims Manager doesn’t think Sunday’s test in Sutton will be an easy task.

“It won’t be an easy game, just because they are relegated,” Miquel continued. “It can be the opposite that they will play freely.

“For me, it makes it even harder to play them now knowing they have no pressure on them.

“So we need to show our quality and play well to be able to get something from the game which is what we want to do.

“In the first phase, when we lost to [Palace] at home, it was when we started decreasing and picked up a lot of injuries so it would be nice to show a better side of ourselves to then and perform better.”

‘Developing this group’

Miquel remains focused on the last two games of the season.

Not only is the bottom of the league now cemented in place, but so is the top, as Chelsea claimed a sixth consecutive WSL title with a 1-0 win over Manchester United midweek.

Miquel explained how she sees it as an evolving competition, one that this group of players must keep learning from in order to rise up through the standings next season.

“I still feel that the top three or four teams there is movement, so I wouldn’t say that it is predictable,” the Manager said.

“Towards the bottom of the table and in the middle, there is also movement and room for team to grow so I think this league is still very competitive.

“If we didn’t have as many injuries as we did have through the season, I don’t think we’d be where we are now.

“I'm not saying we would have been as high as fourth, but we would have been competing for higher positions.

“When we get to the summer, we will see how we do to improve this team, but that is what we have been doing all season, to develop this group.”

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