Renée Slegers says Liverpool will be right up for it at Anfield for Saturday’s final game of the Barclays Women’s Super League season.
We head up to Merseyside looking to end the campaign on a high ourselves with a win that would secure second place and book a spot in next season’s UEFA Women’s Champions League group phase.
Speaking to the media in her pre-match press conference at the Sobha Realty Training Centre before travelling up north on Merseyside, our head coach spoked about what challenges she’s expecting this weekend.
“They’re a very good team with good individual qualities, a clear structure, and we’re going to play at Anfield so I think if you look at the way they play, their pressure and aggression, I think they’ll want to show everything to their own home fans at Anfield.
“I’m expecting high-intensity opposition, a high-intensity game, so let’s see and I think their record lately – even though they had the FA Cup loss against Brighton – their latest performances in the second half of the season, they’re a very, very good team.”
As we approach the end of Renée’s first full season at the helm, she was also asked about how the team has evolved across 2025/26.
“I think from a football perspective, we’ve become more dynamic,” she explained. “We can do different things. We’re comfortable with different things. We’ve developed the defensive side of our game. So there’s been quite some steps taken.
“I think if you look at the programme that we drive, the way we look to individualise things, because every player, you have to look at who they are and put them in a central position instead of having everyone going through the same things on the team level. So that’s, I think, big steps that we’ve been making together with the players.
“I think, again, the culture and the player ownership side of things, we’ve made some steps. We want to develop that further as well. So there’s a lot of… We are very close, but we’ve only won the Champions Cup this year. So that’s the trophy we’ve won. We want more and we want to deliver more to the club. So we have to look at the margins that are going to help us win the trophies next year.”
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