Manchester Metropolis supervisor Gareth Taylor has urged his facet to make use of final season’s disappointment to spur them in the direction of the Girls’s Tremendous League title.
Metropolis completed second within the WSL final marketing campaign with 55 factors, the identical as champions Chelsea, however missed out on account of their inferior objective distinction.
The Blues received their fifth consecutive WSL title, with Metropolis ending as runners-up for a sixth time within the competitors’s historical past.
Having come so near claiming their second league title final time round, Taylor is assured his gamers will likely be prepared for one more problem this season.
Talking on the Barclay’s WSL’s 2024-25 season launch Media Day, Taylor informed Stats Carry out: “Properly, you’ll be shocked how robust it type of makes you and the way mentally decided you do develop into.
“After all, we have to use that frustration, disappointment, no matter time period you need to use, to actually use it as vitality for this season and that’s what I’ve seen within the pre-season. Indicators have been good from the gamers. We really feel prepared once more and re-energized to go and have one other crack on the WSL title.”
#OnThisDay in 2020, Gareth Taylor took cost of his first recreation as Metropolis boss!
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— Manchester Metropolis Girls (@ManCityWomen) September 5, 2024
Metropolis have already made seven signings this switch window, with Vivianne Miedema, the WSL’s all-time prime scorer, the choose of the bunch.
The Dutchwoman has scored 80 objectives in 106 video games within the competitors, outperforming her 59.63 anticipated objectives (xG).
She doesn’t simply convey objectives although, having registered 35 assists within the WSL, with solely Beth Mead (45) and Katie McCabe (36) offering extra, and Taylor is hopeful Miedema could possibly be the lacking piece of the puzzle.
“In case you take a look at the information she’s damaged and the information and that she holds, she is absolutely skilled,” Taylor stated.
“She’s nonetheless a participant who’s received her finest years, I really feel, forward of her. It’s coming now into a brand new surroundings, which is able to take her time to settle in, and we’ll give her that point, however, in fact, what it brings for us is a way of confidence.
“I feel lots of the opposite gamers will likely be actually assured that once you herald a participant of that ilk, it’s a optimistic for the group. Simply excited concerning the problem forward of us and searching ahead to working with Viv and the remainder of the crew.”
Metropolis’s earlier WSL triumph got here again in 2016 they usually have solely failed to complete within the prime two twice since then.
Following Emma Hayes’ departure from Chelsea in Might, the title race is predicted to be tighter than ever, with Taylor’s facet among the many favourites to clinch the trophy.
“It’s a possibility [without Hayes at Chelsea],” Taylor added.
“What’s going to occur? Are they going to have the ability to keep and proceed in that vein? Who is aware of? Perhaps.
“Does it make a large distinction with the coach leaving? The nucleus of the gamers continues to be there? I’m not so positive.
“I feel it’s, in fact, like I say, it could be a possibility for others to have the ability to step up. I feel we simply think about ourselves, who we’re battling with, who we’re combating with. I feel it’s simply ensuring that we’re there in the beginning.
“[The goal is] to win the title.”
The brand new WSL season will get underway on Friday, September 20, whereas Metropolis kick-off their marketing campaign in opposition to Arsenal two days later.
