Interview: William HughesLFC WOMENon the grass like probably no-one else out there.
“Then we’ve seen Jade come along as well this season. When we
saw the irst game she played, we looked and thought there’s a lot of
potential there. I think she’s started every game where she has been
available for us. It’s really good to see these young players develop.”
Liverpool’s goal-diference is signiicantly better than the four teams
immediately above them in the table and Emma admits that could be
important in the inal analysis.
“Having two leaders at centre-half in our captain Soph [Bradley-
Auckland] and vice-captain Niamh Fahey has been important,” she says.
“They have been a key reason why we haven’t conceded that many
goals. Our goal-diference versus the rest of the bottom-half right now
is very good and I think that’s huge credit to those two leading from the
back.
“We’re pretty aware of how important our goal diference could be
and I think the other teams down there will be pretty aware of it as well.
We lost 4-2 at West Ham last month and that was one of maybe only
two or three games this season where we were disappointed with the
performance as well as the result. But even at 4-0 down we clawed
two goals back from Rachel Furness. “People may say we were never
going to come back from 4-0 down but there’s always a bigger picture.
That we only lost the game by two goals rather than four could make
a big diference in that sense. That could be a big deal at the end of the
season and that’s the type of standards you get from Furny.”
The Reds return from a gap of almost a month when they play
Manchester City on Sunday 22 March. They have eight games
remaining and, of those, only two will be played outside the North-
West with a re-arranged derby date at Goodison Park on Wednesday
25 Match also on the horizon.
“The break has probably come at a good time for us to refresh and
re-energise the group,” Emma says.
“We’ve got a really exciting run of games coming up,. We’ve got Man
City at home and then Everton at Goodison which are exciting games
in themselves and then we’ve got a streak of four home games in a
row throughout April and early May so that spell is going to be pretty
exciting for the group and for the staf.”Sarah Gregorius: the forward was brought
in by Matt Beard to bolster his squad for the
second half of the club’s inaugural
FA WSL title-winning campaign
of 2013. Capped 100 times
by the Ferns, she currently
plays in Japan with AS Elfen
Saitama.
Rosie White: another
to have won more than a
century of international caps,Rosie was a popular member of the Reds’
squad from July 2015 to November 2016
when she rejoined Matt Beard at Boston
Breakers. She still plays in the United
States today with Seattle Reign.
Aroon Clansey: a goalkeeper signed
in 2012 from Canberra United.
A Liverpool FC supporter,
she was delighted to join the
Reds and was named as the
club’s FA digital ambassadorwearing the name of her
Twitter handle on the sleeve
of her shirt to help raise
the proile of the league.
Unfortunately, injuries
restricted her to just three
appearances and she later
returned to Canberra
to work as
a video
analyst.KIWI CLAN: Liverpool FC Women’s other New Zealanders