Potter: We've scored four good goals but have areas to improve
Crystal Palace Women’s manager Jo Potter is confident that her side's fortunes will improve, after they played out a thrilling 4-4 draw with Southampton at the VBS Community Stadium on Sunday.
While the result yielded Palace's first point of the season, Potter felt her team deserved more from a match where they created a multitude of chances.
Speaking to the media after the game, she said: "We're hitting the posts, we're hitting the bar, it's dropping out for goal kicks instead of corners. The tide will turn; we've got to stick with it."
Despite the prolific attack, which produced four high-quality goals, Potter expressed frustration with the goals her team conceded.
She said: "We scored a good four goals today, but I’m really not happy with the ones that we conceded. I felt like we had plenty of chances, but I feel like every time they had a half-chance, it went in.
"You look at the penalty, you look at the deflection for the last one. It's really unfortunate for us at the moment; it's just the way it's dropping. But we've got to work hard to turn that tide quickly and turn these one points and draws into wins, because they're going to be really important."
In addition to the lack of luck on the pitch, Palace also have a number of key players out injured.
Speaking on the absentees, Potter said: "We've got our captain and one of our other leaders, Allyson [Swaby], out injured at the moment. We’ve got My Cato out injured.
"We've got a spine of our team that's missing, that adds some real quality to those areas. It's nothing against the players that are playing, but you've got some real experienced, quality players that are missing for us right now."
Potter believes the defence will improve as key players return.
"We will look a little bit different and we will look a little bit more solid defensively moving forward when we get these players back, but we've got to get through this position that we're in at the moment.
"Yes, we do have an attractive way of playing, but we've got to make sure we're showing it at the back and stop conceding goals like that," she said.
Despite the result, the manager highlighted several positives from the performance.
She said: "We've created chances; as I said, we looked like we were threatening, we looked like we were going to score many more goals than we did last week. So it's a huge positive, but we've got to make sure we look at the game as a whole.
"We're really happy with the mentality at the start of the game to come back out and getting back ahead and then conceding again. We've got to look at moments like that to be better.
"But yes, there's definitely moments in the game that we look and we go, 'Yes, we're improving in certain areas,' but we've just got to make sure we're improving overall."
Next up for the Eagles is an away trip to the City Ground to face Nottingham Forest.
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