Gareth Taylor’s verdict
I thought we were quality in the opening exchanges. We were really on the front foot and scored a brilliant goal – I had a feeling Chloe would score today and that we would overrun them in the first 15 minutes.
Alex’s red card changed everything. It’s frustrating, particularly when we seem to have gone from here to here (signals a big jump) all of a sudden with dishing out these yellow cards. It’s a difficult one to take, that, because the girls were magnificent defending the box against some very, very good players, who play very direct.
I felt we dealt with everything. Unfortunately at the vital moment, after Khiara had made things look really comfortable, we had Alanna off the pitch and they scored. But look, I’m so proud of the players.
We were tremendous last week at West Ham. This was a different type of game today – I was talking with Emma [Hayes] at the end. Neither of us enjoyed that, because it [the red card] is just a spoiler.
All we want to see is consistency. If that’s going to happen in a game like today, with yellow cards given at the drop of a hat, then there needs to be consistency.
