Lots nonetheless to combat for, says Cushing
Nick Cushing says Metropolis’s focus should now flip to the FA Cup European qualification after bowing out of the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League on the quarter-final stage.
A to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge noticed us edged our 3-2 on mixture on the final eight stage.
It was a irritating option to finish our European marketing campaign, with a threadbare squad pushing till the top towards a facet who’d misplaced simply as soon as in all competitions in 2024/25, towards Metropolis on the Joie Stadium.
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However Cushing insists the Blues can nonetheless finish the season on a excessive, with all eyes now on an FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United and a three-way tussle with our rivals and Arsenal for the Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League’s high three.
Our Interim Head Coach stated: “I imagine this membership ought to and will likely be combating for trophies, whether or not it’s within the Champions League, the league or different two Cup competitions.
“We’ll proceed to do this. We all know what now we have to play for now, there’s an FA Cup ultimate, with a semi towards United arising, and to combat for the Champions League locations, the place we’re chasing down United and Arsenal.
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“The readability of what we have to do is there, now we have to seek out the options now to be aggressive in these video games.”
With a number of key gamers lacking and Chelsea being the runaway leaders within the WSL, Metropolis had been all the time going to be pushed to our limits within the 4 matches between the perimeters within the area of twelve days.
Cushing described the expertise because the ‘final check’ for his facet, however expressed his private pleasure at how the Blues battled in each sport.
“It’s been the final word check while you play probably the most in-form group,” he added.
“It’s troublesome to say the place we’re at as a result of now we have so many key gamers lacking, however I am proud. We’ve proven the spirit is there and precipitated Chelsea issues in all 4 video games.
“With a lot stress on the group, to nonetheless be within the sport and pushing, it exhibits the character and I am pleased with that.”