As the small but proud band of travelling Crystal Palace supporters at the King Power Stadium on Sunday, waving their two extra-large blue and red flags in the air as their players celebrated in front of them, soaked in the moment of witnessing their team win a Women’s Super League game for the first time, the Leicester City head coach, Amandine Miquel, standing 50 yards to their right, was making a very honest admission.
“I felt today some of us maybe underestimated their team and we shouldn’t, because the league is very strong and there is no easy game,” Miquel told the Guardian, discussing her Leicester players’ performance in their 2-0 defeat to the new kids on the block in the WSL. And if they did underestimate Palace, they surely weren’t alone.
