Manchester City head coach Gareth Taylor has reiterated the club’s desire to win the FA Women’s Continental Tyres League Cup.
The Cityzens can qualify for the competition’s quarter-finals with a victory over Manchester United at The Joie Stadium tomorrow night.
Manchester City head coach Taylor has started the new calendar year with the same starting line-up and he hasn’t ruled out fielding an unchanged side again with the club keen for FA Women’s Continental Tyres League Cup success.
“We are here to win,” Taylor said when speaking in the pre-match press conference. “Sometimes, it is about creating as much rhythm as you can and that might mean going with the same team.
“For us, the players are training very hard, performing really well, whether that’s from the start or from the sidelines. We’ve never disrespected any competition that we have been in. We have rotated but we rotate with the confidence that the players are more than capable of performing.
“We enjoy the competition. I can imagine that people place it as one of the lower trophies but it’s a competition that we have been successful in and that we want to win this season.”
Opponents Manchester United have struggled for consistency this season and the pressure has been mounting on head coach Marc Skinner. Taylor doesn’t feel as though The Red Devils have been performing badly and says that it could be a case of them sticking to their processes throughout their difficult spell.
He said “It’s always difficult when you lose good players; [Alessia] Russo leaving was tough. They’ve been active in the market and brought in some players and we were the same. If I look back to our situation at the beginning of last season, we probably had a similar amount of changes, if not more and it just takes time to gel.
“There have been some positive signs there, they’ve got some good players, dangerous players that can cause problems that play on the world stage.
“You’ve just got to understand that in this game, there are going to be bumps along the way and that’s when you find out more about yourself than anything as a group, as individuals and as a coach. It’s about sticking to your beliefs of what you do and being relentless in that pursuit of trying to improve every single day.
“At the moment, there’s no real reason why [they’re not getting the results], I don’t think their performances have been bad at all.”
Manchester City’s FA Women’s Continental Tyres League Cup fixture against Manchester United kicks-off at 7pm on Wednesday evening. Tickets remain on-sale and can be purchased by clicking here.
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