Birmingham City’s interim head coach Darren Carter has admitted that his side cannot slip up against Everton at St Andrew’s on Friday evening.
The Blues are eight points adrift at the bottom of the Barclays FA Women’s Super League table with just five games left to play.
Birmingham City’s top flight status is hanging by a thread and when speaking in the pre-match press conference, interim head coach Carter admitted that there is no margin for error.
“It’s crunch time, it is now or never,” Carter said. “We don’t have any what if’s, we go into every game and give everything that we possibly can. If that isn’t enough at the end of the day, we can go away and hold our heads high and say that we have given it everything.
“This group have got a real chance. Everyone has wrote us off for a number of weeks now, probably since the Leicester game, but there is no better feeling than going and proving people wrong. It’d be put down as ‘The Great Escape’ and there’s the incentive.”
While Carter doesn’t really like labelling games as ‘must-win’, he said that he cannot play down the huge importance of the Everton game.
He added “From our perspective, you don’t like to label games as must-win, you go into every game trying to win it, but time is against us now. We are not naive enough to think that defeat tomorrow is going to do us any favours or that we have got time to recover, we know the importance now of putting points on the board.
“Sometimes you have to play with that pressure, that’s what the game is about – whether you are top of the table or at the bottom end, you have to play with pressure. That’s when players strive and you look for your leaders, for your senior players in the squad to do that and hope that the younger ones can follow suit and step up. That’s what we will be looking for and I have got every belief that we have got that.”
Birmingham City’s Barclays FA Women’s Super League fixture against Everton kicks-off at 7pm on Friday evening.
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