AFC Bournemouth enter the game as firm underdogs for the first time this season, facing the side that sit atop the WSL and have a squad full of international quality.
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But Markham believes the Cherries will have their chances and can hurt their visitors so they’ll be out for an upset.
“Anything can happen,” she told the Daily Echo.
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“You've seen it happen before in the FA Cup. So we're obviously the underdogs, we're not expecting to win it by any means, but we certainly will want to win it.
“We're not setting out to sit and just defend the whole game, so there will be moments that we can potentially score and I think we're going to try our best to get the win and it would be a historic moment for the club if we did.”
Asked about their preparation for the game, Markham said it has been usual, and explained: “Obviously, it will be a different kind of way that we play on the weekend against these players, but training as usual, doing analysis and just trying to prepare ourselves the best we can.
“But we're obviously aware that we're not going to have a lot of the ball on the weekend, so we'll obviously set up in a way that reflects that and do the best that we can to win the game.”
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She continued: “We're not going to have a lot of the ball, so it's just about in the moments that we do have the ball, whether that's through building ourselves or a mistake of theirs that we can play off.
“I think it's just about when we do have those little moments, it's just making sure we have quality on the ball and trying to make the most of them, because they're going to be pretty few and far between.”
Markham also believes the team can use the underdogs tag to their advantage and they come into the game full of confidence having not yet been beaten this season across all competitions.
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“I think it's a lot less pressure going in as the underdogs,” she said.
“We're not expected to win the game, and the magic of the FA Cup is exciting.
“So I think we're excited for a more challenging game and we've obviously had a good winning streak in the league at the moment.
“So I think it would just be exciting to play a different team, one that you watch on TV.”