Vivianne Miedema and Gareth Taylor both praised the character of Manchester City after they were behind on Saturday and Aston Villa defeated 4-2 in the Women's Super League.
Chasity Grant delivered Villa, who played for the last time under Interim boss Shaun Goater, a six-minute lead and caught City with a sizzling counterattack before he shot the opener in the roof of the net.
However, the visitors quickly turned the script at Villapark. Miedema scored twice in seven minutes and took advantage of a loose backpass to make the equalizer before entering a stunning second from outside the penalty area.
Although Laia Aleixandri's own goal gave Villa Hoop in their 100th WSL competition in the second half in the second half, Mary Fowler scored with a brilliant goal to restore City's lead, while Jess Park just after the hour some shine The score added.
Miedema has now scored in three of her first four WSL-Starts for City, with Khadija Shaw in February 2022 the only other player who managed to do so.
The Dutch, which only recently returned to the selection after overcoming a setback by an injury, was delighted about the resilience that the visitors showed when they came from a deficit and recovered from their defeat in the Manchester Derby last weekend.
“After the last week we have had, a disappointing result on Sunday [against Manchester United] and the girls did great on Wednesday evening [in the League Cup to beat United]”, Miedema tells Sky Sports.
“For today there was a short turn and to stand behind 1-0 within ten minutes is difficult. I think we have shown a lot of character to come back.
“It is tough for the girls [to concede so early]. For me I just want to take the responsibility to get us back at the top, and I am very happy that I was able to do that.
“In Riyad we shot a lot during the training camp and I just feel very good.
“For the second goal I did a scan and knew that someone was standing behind me, but I was in a good position to just touch him. As soon as I hit him, I knew he went in. Eventually we made it. ” It is really difficult for ourselves, but [we are] I'm glad we took the three points. “
Taylor took the lead on Saturday on his 100th WSL competition, with which he won his 73rd victory in the competition. Of the managers who are in charge of more than twenty games in the competition, only Joe Montemurro (75.7%) has a better profit percentage than he (73%).
It also ensured that for the first time since 2021 they would not lose three top matches in a row, and Taylor was impressed by the way City responded when he fell behind so early.
“From the start we have tried to assert our dominance and we started the game reasonably well, but we did not process the first action that Villa had. Before you know it, you are 1-0 behind,” says he. told Sky Sports.
“We really shown a good character to come back. Our pressure was okay at times. The performance of ours were a bit incoherent, but playing three games in six days was very tough for us. The girls turned it around for the peace, two quality moments from VIV [Miedema].
“We talked about starting the second half well, but admitted immediately. Very frustrating. Once again we showed more quality to take the lead again and in the end it could have been more goals than it actually were.” .
“At that time we can get a number of players back on the field that we have not seen for a while. All in all, many positive points today.”
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