Renée praises mentality to find late winner

Renée Slegers was pleased with the never-say-die attitude we demonstrated to earn a late win over HB Koge Women on Tuesday night.

It looked as though we’d be heading for a third frustrating draw on the bounce, but Selina Cerci made an impact with a magic moment to win a penalty late on, which Mariona Caldentey duly converted.

Renée said she was pleased with: “The three points and the mentality, resilience that we've been building to get late goals that are important for us. Again, a lot of dominance, but we don't get the goal.

“But like I said, the mentality and that's something we're going to bring into the season, that we can do things this way as well. And then we continue to work on football.

“I think there's all new teams starting today compared to last weekend. We have five players coming in, making their impact. I think Selina creates the penalty. Mariona scores the penalty, two players coming on. And that's what we're about.

“That's how we want to do things together as a squad and everyone having their impact. So from that perspective, I'm really happy and really proud.”

Going forward, our head coach is keen to make sure that this is just the start of things clicking into place, ahead of our trip to Chelsea on the weekend.

“Now we're going to get refreshed mentally, physically and then we go again,” she said.