Chris Church | We need to keep up the pressure
Swansea City Women’s interim head coach Chris Church challenged his players to continue their excellent start to 2024 and keep the pressure on their rivals following their 3-0 win over Cardiff Met.
After a goalless first half that saw the Swans squander a number of opportunities, Robyn Pinder found the breakthrough with a stunning strike from the edge of the box six minutes into the second period.
Katy Hosford soon made it 2-0, an excellent ball from Chloe Chivers sending the forward through to tuck home a left-footed finish.
Hosford would have her second - and Swansea’s third -three minutes later, converting a great cross from Ellie Lake to seal all three points and make it 11 wins in 12 games in all competitions.
The Swans have now netted eight goals in 2024 without conceding, and interim head coach Church hopes this will continue as they chase league leaders Cardiff City.
“We need to keep this going, we need to keep the pressure on the leaders and keep ourselves in a good position heading into phase two,” said Church.
“It’s been a great start, if I was offered this at the start of 2024, I would have bit your hand off, but it’s now about keeping that and maintaining that.
“Hopefully we can ramp the pressure up now each week and we will see just how close we can get.
“It was a tough first half, we knew Cardiff Met would come right back at us after last week, they made it difficult with a couple of changes.
“We weren’t quite ruthless, but we were never truly worried, in the second half we made some tweaks and talked about it at half-time, and the football we played in the second half was second to none.
“I’m always confident we will find that breakthrough, even when things weren’t quite going our way I was still confident we would get something.
“That’s two excellent goals in two weeks for Robyn, she is becoming a big player for us and hopefully that will continue.
“But it’s all about the work rate and the endeavour that the entire team give week in week out, not just the ones that start but the ones on the bench, too.”
