Karen Hills: "I'm really pleased for Lorena"

Karen Hills speaks to the team

Karen Hills speaks on her delight for Lorena Azzaro and keeping a clean sheet tonight against Ipswich:

"We kept a clean sheet, we've obviously won the game, which is really important. We've got a lot of players getting some minutes, which again was really important. 

"I'm really pleased for Lorena to get off the mark because she needed that. She needed that for confidence. She's found it difficult. She's been working so hard.

"So I just want to say that I was really pleased to see that going for her and hopefully that spurs her on now going forward. 

"We were honest in there at half-time and spoke about our identity and how we wanted to attack the game.

"We wanted to be front-footed and I felt that at moments we were hesitating and that hesitation then costs you because the game plan is the game plan and you've got to stick to it. 

"I thought they'd come out flying in the second half and really took the game to Ipswich. Credit to Ipswich, they're a very good side.

"They've got some fantastic players, a lot of experienced players and they're in the position that they're in their league for a reason. 

"I think that was one of their first losses that they've lost since February. So, we're really pleased with that performance.

"We didn't have to pick them up too much. We just had some honest conversations week in, week out. 

"I've got a really realistic group and every single player wants to keep improving and helping each other to do that. We had some conversations around the goals.

"We needed to do better in certain moments. We should never be able to go up in a game of 2-1 and then concede to poor goals. We spoke about it honestly and we've tried to eliminate that.

"I thought today that bounce back and that reaction to keep that clean sheet, to deal with set pieces the way that I thought we did. I thought we dealt with them a lot better. So, every single game, it's moving in a positive direction and today's another one of those positive moves."

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