READING FC WOMEN’s boss Kelly Chambers has challenged her team to show ‘fight’ after they lost to Liverpool on Sunday.
The defeat means that the Royals drop down the Women’s Super League table and are just four points above bottom side Leicester City, who have two games in hand to play.
Chambers was left disappointed after her side weren’t able to have anything to show from an impressive first-half display.
“For the first-half, I thought we were great,” said Chambers.
“We had a great deal of control and the second-half we didn’t match that level of intensity so that’s disappointing.
“I think you can see from the girls’ reaction, as well as mine, that we’re very disappointed not to come away with anything and it makes our job a lot harder now.”
The Royals manager has demanded her team to show fight in order to improve their situation after they dropped down to 11th in the WSL.
She continued: “Now is the time to fight, stand up and be counted in every second of our upcoming games as the size of them now are huge.
“It’s hard to identify what went wrong, I need to look back and analyse it in full.
“I said to the girls at the end that they are two simple goals we’ve conceded, we can’t lose our individual physical battles like we did.
“To concede so soon after the first, we cannot allow that to happen. We got rolled over the pitch far too easily so for us individually, we must do better it’s as simple as that.
“I’ll now be looking at players who prove they are willing to fight and step up on the pitch and give everything.”
The Royals now face a three week break before they are next back in action with an FA Women’s Cup tie away at Tottenham
Chambers concluded: “Going into the break it’s conflicting as part of me wants a game next weekend to put this one behind us.
“Equally it now gives us the opportunity to have a full week before the break to get on the training pitch and right the wrongs.
“We’ll reflect and make sure we put things in palace ready for when we step in the FA Cup game.”
