Skinner: We controlled the whole game
Marc Skinner was delighted with how Manchester United Women side dominated FA Cup fifth-round opponents Durham on Sunday.
“I thought that Durham, in the first half, were resolute, compact,” the boss told MUTV.
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“[In the] second half we asked for a little bit more, and straight away Leah [Galton] timed her run better, we were in behind and we scored.
“Overall we controlled the whole game, but credit to Durham for the professional resilience they showed.”
“That is what we tried to design this year [a quality squad],” he added.
“We didn’t have enough depth last year; it’s a whole team spirit, a whole team collective.
“There will be people that are disappointed because they haven’t played but that is the competitive nature of this team which drives our standards, and the second half showed the qualities we have.”
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While Skinner's Reds are comfortably into the quarter-finals of the Women's FA Cup, attentions will firmly turn to our next league encounter, against Leicester City at Leigh Sports Village on Sunday.
The boss is looking forward to getting a ‘good week’ of training in, saying: “We will see what we need to do in order to adjust for Leicester and how we can try and take the points out of that game.”
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