Liverpool supervisor Matt Beard states that his side have actually concentrated on themselves today in the lead as much as their Adobe Women’s FA Cup 5th round tie at London City Lionesses.

The Reds face The Pride at Princes Park in Dartford this afternoon. London City Lionesses sacked head coach Carolina Morace in midweek and they enter into the tie as a little bit of an unidentified.

When speaking in the pre-match interview, Liverpool manager Beard confessed that he doesn’t understand what to get out of London City Lionesses however his side’s focus has actually been on themselves.

“There are two things that we need to be aware of; there’s usually a bounce when a manager goes and then she had a certain way of playing, very structured, so that’s all we can plan for really,” Beard stated. “It makes our task a bit harder.

“We’ve just been concentrating on ourselves over the last few weeks, making sure that we improve in areas that we need to improve on. We’ve really focused on ourselves this week and we’ve done a little bit of tactical work around them.”

Despite investing greatly in their team last summertime, London City Lionesses remain in a transfer dogfight in the Barclays Women’s Championship. Beard has actually been amazed by The Pride’s battles however understands that they have gamers that can make a distinction.

He stated “It’s going to be a tough game. Of course, we want to progress but you look at their squad and they have a lot of good, experienced players in their team. It’s a bit of a surprise to see the players that they’ve got in their squad and where they are in the table. Even for them, it’s a welcome distraction from the league campaign. It’s going to be a tough game.”

Liverpool’s Adobe Women’s FA Cup 5th round tie at London City Lionesses kicks-off at 2pm.