Manchester United Women pulled off an impressive 2-0 victory away to Liverpool this Sunday afternoon.
The victory temporarily took them to the top of the WSL table with Chelsea to play later on
United goalscorer Ella Toone waxed lyrical over her teammate Hinata Miyazawa, who opened the scoring with a stunning strike from range.
Unreal
Commenting on the Japanese player’s match to Sky Sports Toone stated, “unreal, she’s an unbelievable player. I absolutely love playing with her. She has so much quality defensively but on the ball she does a lot of work as well.”
The England midfielder also claimed that she thoroughly deserved to score today and joked that she really should have scored another.
Commenting on the goal she claimed, “it was a great finish, everyone is so happy for her, she is consistently one of our best players every single week and we see the work that she puts in and she doesn’t always get the credit, so she deserves that goal today and we are very proud of her.”
Skinner less impressed
United head coach Marc Skinner was happy with the result but less complimentary of his side’s overall display in an interview with Sky Sports.
He claimed, “we spoke at half-time about what we wanted in the second half. I just said to the players in the huddle that we weren’t good enough second half with the ball. We made rushed decisions and I don’t even think that was Liverpool’s pressure, it was just us.”
Nonetheless, Skinner was delighted with his team’s response and asserted, “and what I loved about the group is they just accepted it yeah, it wasn’t good enough. So yeah, their standards are already there and I think we just tried to force too many things. It’s how comfortable we made that first half, that is why we fell into that trap.”
The former Birmingham head coach was generally positive with the display and especially the result in what has been a very successful start to the new season.
He explained, “look, we will learn from it, another clean sheet, another two goals, two different goalscorers, so yeah it is a good three points.”
United will next be in action when they face Chelsea on Friday evening in a titanic tussle.
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Alex Browne
Alex is a huge Manchester United fan, inspired by greats of his homeland such as George Best, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside. Proud owner of such niche shirts such as Kleberson, Eric Djemba-Djemba and Gary Neville. Grew up pretending to be Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the back garden, with little success.
