Leicester City defender Sophie Howard says that the players still believe in themselves despite the club being bottom of the Barclays Women’s Super League table.
The Foxes are the only club in the top tier still to collect a single point this season. Their struggles in the first half of the campaign has left them seven points adrift of their nearest relegation rivals.
It will take an almighty effort from Leicester City in the second half of the season to battle their way to safety but defender Howard says that the players are still full of belief and recent results have not changed their mentality.
“As you can imagine, I think the first half of the season has put a downer on things but we shown it last season and up to this point that we do believe in ourselves and one another,” Howard said when speaking in a recent Leicester City press conference.
“We do know that we haven’t performed well enough, we haven’t got the results that some of our performances have deserved. If you don’t keep a clean sheet and don’t score goals, you don’t get results.
“It doesn’t change in terms of how we prepare for games and how we believe in ourselves. We respect every opposition and go into each game in the same way. What has happened up until now won’t affect that.
“We believe that we can stay up 100 percent.”
As a club, Leicester City have adopted the slogan ‘Foxes Never Quit’ and Howard says that the team fight until the end of every game despite having a handful of hard luck stories in the closing stages of some of their matches this season.
She said “You can see in our games that we don’t give up. The fact that we have conceded late goals isn’t the fact that we have given up, there are other areas that have led to this in the past but our fight and graft is not the reason. ‘Foxes Never Quit’ – that is something that we live by and we want to show it in every single performance.”
Leicester City return to Barclays Women’s Super League action after the mid-season break when Brighton & Hove Albion are the visitors to The King Power Stadium on 15 January 2023.