Watford forward Adekite Fatuga-Dada says that The Golden Girls will improve after a 3-0 home defeat to Bristol City left the club bottom of the FA Women’s Championship table.
As the FA Women’s Championship creeps towards the halfway mark for the season, it has proven to be one of the more competitive in recent memory. With as many as seven teams still potentially being in the promotion mix, it is anyone’s guess how the table will look come May.
In the case of Watford, the club have been tasked with the huge challenge of making the step up to FA Women’s Championship football following their promotion in June. The Hertfordshire club currently sit bottom of England’s second tier following their 3-0 defeat at the hands of Bristol City which coincided with Coventry United’s shock victory over Durham. Forward Fatuga-Dada was perhaps the brightest spark from a disappointing day at the office for The Golden Girls and she spoke yesterday regarding the defeat.
“We’re always together as a team,” she told FAWSL Full-Time. “Bristol are a very good side, you can see that from the way they play football and they’re full-time so you can kind of tell that.”
Although Bristol City were clearly considered to be the better team on paper, Watford certainly held their own for lengthy spells of the match. It came as a great disappointment to Fatuga-Dada that all three goals came from the hosts losing possession in their defensive third.
“All of those goals were sucker punches, all gut-wrenching goals to concede to be honest,” Fatuga-Dada stated. “They’re not goals we want to be conceding, that’s something we have to work on as a team.
“I think we weren’t at it today, I don’t know why, I don’t know what it was. I can’t put my finger on it but we know we’ve got to be better and we will be.”
The result comes fresh off the back of an 11-0 drubbing at the hands of high-flying Tottenham Hotspur in midweek and Fatuga-Dada is welcoming the opportunity to regroup with her teammates following such disappointing results.
She said “We’ve got the international break now to sort our heads out, we’ve got a few weeks to work on things and come back stronger for the next game.”
That next league game for Watford is on 18 December against relegation rivals Coventry United, the result of which could define both sides’ seasons. Despite some impressive displays thus far, the newly-promoted Golden Girls are facing the very real threat of heading straight back down to the FA Women’s National League. Yet, Fatuga-Dada isn’t entertaining the idea just yet.
“It’s no time to be looking at the table at the moment, there’s still a lot of football to play,” she stated. “We’ve just got to focus on our football and make sure we do everything that we can to be where we belong at the end.
“In this league anything can happen, anyone can beat anyone, and we’ve got to have that belief in ourselves and we do have that belief that we can go out there and take points from anyone.”
Watford need to put points on the board if they are to maintain their FA Women’s Championship status for another year and there will be no greater opportunity to do that than against Coventry United in December.
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