Why Sydney Lohmann says Manchester City can’t take anything for granted this season | OneFootball

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Manchester City reached the knockout stages of the Subway Women’s League Cup on Saturday by beating WSL2 side Nottingham Forest 2-0 to top Group A.

And Sydney Lohmann – making her first start since returning from injury – said afterwards that WSL leaders Manchester City had not taken the second-tier team lightly.

“I think the teams in the other leagues are strong teams, and you can see that from the results,” she told the club’s official website.

“So, we knew it was not going to be easy, and we’ve said it before that we’re a better team on paper, but we need to prove that by giving everything.

“We can’t take anything for granted or think that we can play at 90%, and that’s what we’ve tried to do.”

Manchester City are competitive: Andree Jeglertz

Head coach Andree Jeglertz was pleased with the result after Grace Clinton and Lauren Hemp scored in the first half to wrap up the win – but hinted that he would have liked City to have underlined their superiority with more goals in the second half.

“There are parts of the game I’m pleased with. We created a couple of great chances and that was good and I’m pleased we kept another clean sheet,” he said.

“That’s very important, so that’s positive. I think in the second half we need to be better in game management because we can definitely keep the ball a little bit longer.

“I think this is what we’ve been struggling a little bit with and that we’re a little too stressed to go forward.

“So that was the second half, but in general the feeling is that we are okay and we should be happy for winning the game also, it’s good.”

Sydney Lohmann and Grace Clinton return

Jeglertz was also pleased to have Lohmann and Clinton back and competing for places in the starting line-up.

“It’s very important for us to be able to have more players getting more opportunities to play and we have a great squad and there are many competitions in many positions.

“The ones coming in today are definitely not letting anybody down so it’s a fantastic challenge for me to pick the best teams coming up, but it’s also making the sessions and training really challenging because everything is competitive, so that’s important.”