Ahead of the Leicester City clash on Sunday, Crystal Palace Women's forward Ashleigh Weerden sat down to speak about the win at Ipswich, what Jo Potter said at full-time, and the challenge of the Barclays Women's Super League 2.
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Weerden and Abbie Larkin both bagged goals away at Ipswich to secure an important three points on the road for Palace Women last Sunday.
Weerden equalised for Palace on 60 minutes, with her strike crashing off the bar and into the net after being found in space by Kirsty Howat.
Talking through her goal, she said: "I'm really happy that I could contribute with my goal, it was a good pass from Kirsty.
"I just took a touch in the box to end up behind their back line, and then I just took my chance and it went in.
"I did feel that a goal was coming, I was really eager for it and I felt like I was getting in the right spaces."
She almost scored with an even better effort moments later, but her shot was just over the bar.
"The other chance would have been ever better than the first I must say, I remember taking a touch on my thigh, flicking it over their defender and then I took a shot that just went over.
"I talked about it with the Manager, she said I could have even taken another touch, so that's something I keep in my mind if I end up in a situation like that again," she said.
Weerden also revealed what Manager Jo Potter had to say at full-time: "She said that we deserved this win and that we really turned the game around.
"In the first-half, we weren't clinical with our passes, and we didn't move the ball fast enough so when she saw the difference in the second-half, she was just very proud of how we managed the game to get the win."
Palace's four draws aside, every win and defeat so far this season has been decided by one goal.
Weerden spoke about just how close things are in the WSL2 at the moment.
She said: "You can see in the table that points are tight, which says a lot about this league.
"Everyone is a big threat for us and every game is gonna be a challenge. So, if we win by one goal - I'll take it, because it's not that easy to win by a huge scoreline."
Looking ahead to Leicester in the Subway Women's League Cup, it's clear that Weerden is keen to build on the positive momentum generated from last week's win.
She said: "I'm really excited to play against Leicester. I hope we can finally get in some sort of flow after this last win, and really put up a good fight.
"It's a different challenge as it's for the League Cup, so anything can happen in these sort of games."
Weerden and the team kick-off at Meadow Lane at 15:00 GMT on Sunday, 23rd November.
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