‘It keeps us right in touch’ – Taylor reacts to Manchester City’s victory against Brighton | OneFootball

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·4 December 2022

‘It keeps us right in touch’ – Taylor reacts to Manchester City’s victory against Brighton

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Manchester City head coach Gareth Taylor was pleased to see his side defeat Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 at The Academy Stadium this afternoon and keep themselves hot on the heels of the Barclays Women’s Super League’s top three.

It wasn’t a classic Manchester City performance but three first half goals resulted in The Cityzens killing off the hopes of a plucky Brighton & Hove Albion outfit very early on in the contest.

When speaking in the post-match press conference, Taylor admitted that he was happier with the first half performance than the second but overall, he was just delighted to stay in touch with the top three.


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“It was a good win, we were a bit slow first five minutes but I think the goal settled us….our set play delivery was really good today,” Taylor said.

“After that, we scored two excellent goals – the second goal was really good, it was a good finish by Julie (Blakstad) from Chloe’s (Kelly) cross and then a really good finish from Laura (Coombs) as well.

“Second half was a bit too loose from us in possession which made the game a little too open for Brighton and we were a bit disappointed that we’ve not added a few more goals to our performance.

“It keeps us right in touch and that’s the really pleasing thing.”

With Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea having won their games yesterday, the pressure was on Manchester City to deliver this afternoon. Taylor went on to say that his side were completely focused on themselves and not Saturday’s results.

He said “You expected them to win their games yesterday, they did and people will have expected us to win today as well. People see a game on paper and think ‘that’s it’ but then there are no easy games, it can be difficult. Scoring early is important to settle the nerves.

“We don’t take too much notice of it, we have to concentrate on what we do. Sometimes, if you are looking at what everyone else is doing, it can distract you from doing what you need to do and you lose focus.

“After the first two games, for us to be where we are now is a great effort from everyone and we have another good opportunity next weekend (against Manchester United) to claw some more ground back. It is a good position that we are in.”

Manchester City return to action on Wednesday evening when they travel to Prenton Park to take on Liverpool in the FA Women’s Continental Tyres League Cup.

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