- LCFC Women opened their Barclays FA Women’s Super League account with a 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa
- Tash Flint scored the opener at Banks’s Stadium but Villa’s quick-fire double turned the game around
- Manager Jonathan Morgan was pleased with large parts of Saturday’s performance from the Foxes
- A ruthlessness is required to turn good showings into points and wins, he believes
The Foxes were making their top-flight debut at Banks’s Stadium and held the advantage in the season opener until two goals in three minutes, from Sarah Mayling and former Fox Remi Allen, flipped the contest in Villa's favour.
Morgan felt City were unfortunate to come out on the wrong side of Saturday’s 2-1 scoreline, but admitted they needed to be better at both ends of the pitch during crucial moments of the game.
“Honestly I think we were brilliant today,” he told LCFC TV in his post-match interview. “I think we were incredibly unlucky. For anyone that watched the game, we dominated large parts.
“Out of possession we were fantastic, a bit wasteful in front of goal which is a bit disappointing, but as you can see by the two goals that were scored, it was 60 seconds of madness.
“Even so, we’ve got to hold ourselves much better than what we did in that moment of the game. It would have been 1-1, it would have been a point rather than a loss, or we could have nicked something at the end. But I said to the girls they've left everything out on the pitch and that’s all you can ask for, but we are disappointed.”
Natasha Flint’s goal, six minutes ahead of the break, gave the visitors a lead their dominance deserved, although failing to increase their goal tally ultimately proved costly.
Despite that, Morgan was keen to look at the bigger picture and the positive signs which can be built on heading into next Sunday’s visit of Manchester United to King Power Stadium (2pm BST kick-off).
Further analysing the 90 minutes, the LCFC Women manager commented: “First half, it was all us. We’ve got to capitalise on that more. Last season, we knew we could outscore the opposition, whereas this year we’ve got to be prepared to understand that we’ve got to take our chances.
“I think we made some significant opportunities compared to Aston Villa and they’ve converted two and we’ve converted one. We go into next week and we just go again really.
“What the girls will see is that our style of play works, the way we set up works. I think all it is now is a bit more of the finer detail and a bit more ruthlessness in front of goal. We need to minimise significant errors which unfortunately cost us.
“I know [Sam Tierney] will be the one that is most upset about that, but we’ve got to make sure that all of us in the squad and on the team are strong enough.”