Manchester City‘s coach recognizes the difficulty in the match, praises the players and praises the team’s control at the end of the match which maintains our 100% success rate in the 2024/25 Champions League.
Gareth Taylor left Viola Park in Vienna happy. In a game in which City opened the scoring, they suffered a comeback in the final stage, but had the strength to react and score 3-2 against St Polten (goals from Kennedy, Fujino and Mary Fowler), the City commander commented on the difficulties of the competition.
“I think it was a lesson learned. When you play against teams like Polten, who people expect to be easy to score three points, these games certainly aren’t.”
“I also liked what we did at the end of the game, controlling the final ten minutes. It’s important and it’s not easy to do because they were a team with a lot of energy and who pressed a lot.”
The City coach also praised the professional debut of Codie Thomas. The right-back showed great confidence and even participated in the first goal, attacking the marker and playing for Chloe to cross into the area. Alanna Kennedy he would complete the move with a great goal from outside the area.
“She had the ball a lot in the first half, that’s where the space was on the right.”
“It was magical for her to make her debut in this competition.”
“I’m really happy that she got her first taste of professional football, it will help her in the future.”
Taylor also admitted that she didn’t expect Kennedy’s shot to go towards goal when she set up the shot.
“It was a hell of a kick. To be honest, I wasn’t sure when she hit, if it was the right decision, but she proved me wrong!”
“She prepared well and we should have scored more goals. We missed some chances to increase the score and that’s what can happen if you don’t take advantage of them, you leave yourself susceptible to some set plays that we needed to deal with better.”
Finally, the City coach said that the first goal of Aoba Fujino wearing our shirt will bring more confidence to the Japanese player.
“Yeah, really good for her confidence. We said as a group, this competition is really tough and we need to really bring every action and moment.”
“The times when you struggle is when it comes to duels, we need to be really respectful of each opponent we face in this competition,” concluded Taylor.
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