Charlton women news - FA Cup QF v Liverpool p167

sam3110 said:

Kenney reminding me of Carey today, just a shoot on sight attitude that actually isn't really working

No legs to run forward. She’s pressing the Liverpool defence on her own and tracking back 

Oh what a shame... Just couldn't clear it

Unfortunate. Slightly farcical goal but there’s not really a point in there where we missed an obvious chance to clear it. The ball hitting the bar throws everyone and it falls kindly for them 

Oh well. Means we can fully focus on the league now.

A performance to be proud of. Shame we didn’t take it to pens and it did dawn on me looking at how tired those players were that extra time and a loss probably isn’t the best thing for a team who absolutely need to win their next game but still, if we focus on today it’s a good showing a potentially means that we could have a decent enough performance against Leicester if it comes to it. BT embarrassingly gave POTM to the goalscorer so they could interview her after but N’Dow, Lobato and Fitzgerald are deserving on a huge amount of praise for their effort today 

Garrymanilow said:

A performance to be proud of. Shame we didn’t take it to pens and it did dawn on me looking at how tired those players were that extra time and a loss probably isn’t the best thing for a team who absolutely need to win their next game but still, if we focus on today it’s a good showing a potentially means that we could have a decent enough performance against Leicester if it comes to it. BT embarrassingly gave POTM to the goalscorer so they could interview her after but N’Dow, Lobato and Fitzgerald are deserving on a huge amount of praise for their effort today 

International break now, they don't play again for 3 weeks.

Great game. They put so much effort in. The girls should be proud of that performance. 

Can’t fault the effort and grit the team showed today on another day we’d have taken them to penalties. But the girls can hold their head high after that 120 mins amazingly organised and well disciplined. N’Dow was absolutely outstanding at defending throughout the game 

Can only echo what others have said. N'Dow was superb, and you'd never know Siber isn't really a right-back. Liverpool took control as the game wore on (as Bunk says above, one of the priorities in the summer has to be to bring in players who are physically stronger, whichever league we're in) but their goal didn't feel inevitable and it's gutting that it came when and in the manner that it did.

I feel a bit for Kenney. Yes, she didn't do well today - her effort from long range was feeble - but frequently when she comes on in games her job is to chase the defenders and the keeper when they have the ball at the back, with little support from the other forward players, so I'm not too surprised that she quickly looks worn out and that her decision-making then isn't the best when she does get on the ball. I don't really understand why Bissell played out wide when she came on, as another physical presence at centre-forward would have helped.

Despite the result, that was a performance we can take heart from. And the crowd was good too, both in terms of numbers and the support throughout the game. Hopefully we can draw more crowds like that in future.

We look a much better side with that defensive setup. It's not that they look world-beating, it's that they have a knack for somehow avoiding conceding goals, which is the key task after all. I also think we look better when Muya's playing and it was good to have her back starting. Now hopefully we can take advantage of the international break to reset and try to play against Southampton like we did against Liverpool.

Reminded me of the Men’s Team.

Great Defensive Work but No Attacking Threat.

Swindon_Addick said:

Here's the BBC's league table plus the remaining fixture for the top three. All remaining games are on Sunday 26 April and Saturday 2 May, except for Ipswich-Sheffield at the other end of the table. Two of the top three go up, the third goes into the playoff. Newcastle could catch Palace in theory, if Palace get no more than one point; failing that the current top three will be the final top three.

Birmingham: Ipswich (H), Charlton (A)
Charlton: Southampton (A), Birmingham (H)
Palace:  Sunderland (A), Portsmouth (H)

Should both Birmingham and Charlton win on the 26th, they could play out a draw on the 2nd to guarantee promotion for both sides…

Personally I didn’t think that Liverpool were very impressive. Their defence was too quick and strong for our forwards but their midfield and attack were a lot poorer than I was expecting. Very little creativity or skill 

BalladMan said:

kinveachyaddick said:

Personally I didn’t think that Liverpool were very impressive. Their defence was too quick and strong for our forwards but their midfield and attack were a lot poorer than I was expecting. Very little creativity or skill 

Also, we only need to better than one other team next year, two of whom we will have beaten this season and we have beaten Brighton also.  Going up and staying is not as daunting as it sounds as long as we spend a bit to buy some quality. 

I think you're wildly underestimating the WSL1. Yes we did beat Brighton (although i think Brighton were pretty much already eliminated by that point) but we also played West Ham earlier in the group who are 2nd bottom in the WSL and they beat us 5-1.

London City Lionesses won our league last year, they've just posted losses of over 10m, they broke the women's transfer world record by buying a player for 1.4m, signed a number of other international players............and they've won just 6 games and are 7th in a table of 12 teams. The gulf is absolutely huge.