“I’m not set on a starting eleven!” | Becky Langley | Newcastle United Women 2-2 Bristol City Women - video Dailymotion

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Newcastle United Women’s Manager Becky Langley admitted she is not set on her strongest starting eleven, as the Magpies drew 2-2 with Bristol City Women. This comes as Bristol City Women’s Manager Charlotte Healy made clear her side deserved to win the game.

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00:00Newcastle United woman earned another late draw, this time against Bristol City,

00:04with manager Becky Langley making clear she's not set on her strongest XI yet.

00:10I think we've probably redefined the midfield today anyway, which I thought was a real positive.

00:14I thought Lois gave a lot of balance in the six and actually helped us get Jordan and Morgan a little bit higher.

00:19So then you could see that creativity really play out in the first half, which was a massive strength.

00:25We obviously went with the front three that ended the game against Palace.

00:28And I thought three of the girls did well in the first half.

00:30But again, we switched it, you know, hoping for the impact from Freya and Beth.

00:35Liss and Jazz obviously came on, I thought gave good energy to the midfield in the second half,

00:39which probably gave us that extra fuel to kick on towards the end of the game.

00:42So, yeah, we've just got to look at multiple factors.

00:44But yeah, obviously, as we said, we're navigating a lot of change.

00:47It's just stabilising probably from the change we've made.

00:50I think we've got such a talented group of players.

00:53There's various options we need to keep working with.

00:55I'm not set on starting XI right now.

01:00I think there's some key players that we are really certain need to be in the starting XI every week.

01:05But there's been flexibility probably in our approach.

01:08And yeah, there's probably spells of the game where you think,

01:10oh, that player did really well.

01:11Oh, actually, that front three looked really good.

01:13Meanwhile, the manager of Newcastle's opponents, Bristol City woman Charlotte Healy,

01:18said that her side deserved to win the game thanks to their second half performance,

01:23despite a disappointing first half.

01:25Yeah, I was really disappointed with the first half performance, to be honest.

01:28We were so far off where we've been.

01:31We weren't brave, didn't play forwards, didn't compete in duels.

01:35We didn't get enough pressure on the ball.

01:37So we were really, really disappointed with that first half.

01:41And we had to be better in the second.

01:42And we made that clear at halftime.

01:44And I thought we were.

01:44I thought you saw a lot more of us.

01:46I thought we did really well in terms of chances created, in terms of competing better.

01:52And then, of course, when you go 2-1 up, you know, we want to win the game.

01:55It's such a poor goal for us to concede.

01:57And I thought on the second half, show them we deserve to win that game.

02:01Two great goals from Rio Hardy today.

02:03She does some hard work off the ball, but goals she really deserves, isn't it?

02:06Yeah, Rio is fantastic.

02:07You know, we know what she brings to this team and how hard she works out of possession.

02:11And, you know, as a number nine, you want to score goals.

“I’m not set on a starting eleven!” | Becky Langley | Newcastle United Women 2-2 Bristol City Women

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