"She's key in our build-up and how we play with the ball. She's very influential off the ball in terms of being combative when she's up close in those one-v-one duels. The beauty for Evelina is there's still a lot of work where we feel she can grow within, she can still be better as a player. That's probably the beauty of football. When you have such a player that can still be better, it's only going to benefit us for the success moving forward. To make 100 appearances is very, very impressive because it shows how important she's been to this team and to this club for a long period. She'll continue to play a huge part here now moving forward."
On Hanna Wijk first start last weekend...
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"I was delighted with Hanna. I think she's had a bit of an unsettling time. Since she got here, she's had a bit of illness. When you get illness, it obviously sets you back, and then you're trying to build back up again, but she's got herself now in a place where she's training well. We're starting to really see her qualities within the training group. It can be a big game putting someone in for their debut, but I felt Hanna was ready for that. I think her performance in the game was good, she had some moments where she can be better tactically, but I thought for her first game, making her debut, big stadium, derby against Chelsea, against one of the big teams, I thought she performed exceptionally well. She's settling in really well with the group now."
On showing more composure in front of goal compared to our previous encounters against Villa...
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"If you're not creating the chances, you're not in the right positions, then I'd be concerned. It's just a little bit of composure and a little bit of confidence in front of the goal, to be more patient and be calmer. Once one of them goes in, I think you have it in games. I think we'll get to a point where everything we hit on target will go in. It's more just the composure and the bravery in front of the goal to make sure that we can be ruthless. There are not big changes needed. It's more the players having that belief and confidence in front of the goal that they're good enough and we're capable of scoring."
On the positives from the first half against Chelsea...
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"The braveness to play and the composure we had even when we were under high pressure. The variance in our game to play in front of them and play beyond them. I thought we were very good in terms of when we got between the lines and we broke past their midfield line. I think we got into some really dangerous situations. It's more the courage and bravery to play our way. Whether you win or you don't, you want to see a very clear identity that represents this club. We can look at that from a real positive impact of where we were maybe two or three months ago to where we are now, six months down the line. Also, if you're looking 12 months back from where we were, we took big steps.”
“She's done that in the early parts of her career. She was a winger, she's played as a number 10, so she actually can play in those advanced positions. It was more to see what we would get out of having a bit more balance down that left side. It was two left-footers on the same side of the pitch, which we've not always had, and Julie being more direct and definitely a threat in terms of what we want. It would also give us balance in terms of when we were defending, if they were going to play really advanced with Ellie Carpenter, it would enable us to nullify that threat maybe at times. I think Julie as an attacking threat gives us a lot. Her crossing ability is really good, her physical capability in the pressing phase is really good, so that gave us a different dimension. It's something we will look at, and there's other players that can do the same.”
On the threat Kirsty Hanson poses…
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**“**She’s a really key player. She’s someone I've worked with before at Manchester United, so knowing her as an individual, am I surprised that she's scoring goals? No, because she's a good player. Am I surprised she's in good form? No, because she works extremely hard. We've seen that when we've played them in the game at home, when she gets behind us and she finishes. I know what Kirsty is as a player and what she can bring. If we allow her the time and space that she wants and she needs, then she'll cause a whole lot of problems.”