Jo Potter on Man Utd: We have to be adaptable
Palace Women's boss Jo Potter has stressed the need for tactical flexibility, with her side travelling to Manchester United on Saturday.
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The Eagles visit the Progress With Unity Stadium on Saturday at 12:45 GMT, where a win could seen Palace move up to seventh-place in the Barclays Women's Super League.
For Palace to get those three points, Potter believes that they will need to be flexible.
"I said this year we'd have to become extremely adaptable and show different sides of our game in different games and I think we've done that really well over the last couple of games.
"We are scoring goals and the games are getting tighter, but Man United have one of the best defensive records in the league so far.
"They don't concede many goals, so we've got to make sure we're really switched on in both ends of the pitch," she said.
She praised their new head coach Eva Olid, who Potter faced a number of times whilst both were managing in Scotland.
"I think you could see like it's always going to take a bit of time for a manager to impose their ideas and strategies coming in super late as well into pre-season and what that looks like.
"You can see the phases that they've been going through and what they're trying to do and I think they've settled down a little bit again now.
"They're going through that phase of finding what they're about and Eva is implementing her way a little bit more," she said.
She looked back on a really positive week for the club, starting with a 3-2 win over Charlton in the league before a 5-3 penalty shootout victory away at Spurs on Wednesday.
Potter said: "The Charlton game was a big game for us to get points on the board and I think Wednesday's game was important for us to continue that momentum and confidence.
"Thankfully for us it's gone in the right direction over the last few days. One game can see you moving up three positions, four positions and then one draw and you drop in four positions.
"It's super tight but we've got to make sure that we're concentrating on ourselves. As you said, it couldn't have gone better for us this week unless we'd have got the three points outright against Spurs.
"But the performance and the ability to deliver those points on the board that we've needed to help with confidence and momentum, it's put us in a better position than what we could have been going into this game."
Finally, she reflected on Palace's start to the season and how she has enjoyed the WSL so far.
She said: "There's been some really enjoyable moments. As ever, being in football, you can be high and you can be low.
"Ten minutes before the end of the game on Sunday, I think you could imagine how I felt.
"And then at the end of the game, that's football for you. It changes very, very quickly. So you feel every emotion going.
"It's about trying to stay pretty consistent and keeping yourself level. But we really do try and enjoy the moments where we can enjoy."
Palace's final home WSL game is against Manchester City on Sunday, 13th December at 12:00 GMT.
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