{"id":1683,"date":"2026-04-05T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:53:13","slug":"renee-we-have-to-own-the-performance-interview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e: &#8220;We have to own the performance&#8221; | Interview | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ren\u00e9e Slegers felt that we didn\u2019t create enough chances to beat Brighton &#038; Hove Albion in the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Madison Haley and Caitlin Hayes saw the Seagulls reach the semi-final, and our head coach admitted that the visitors deserved to go through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have to put our hands up and own the performance and congratulate Brighton because they managed the game better than us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were clinical in the finishes they had, and we didn\u2019t create big enough, and enough chances to win the game today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Albion\u2019s second goal, we controlled the game until full-time, but couldn\u2019t convert our pressure into a goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think creating our spaces, and creating rhythm and tempo on the ball was hard for us today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying to the circumstances, we didn\u2019t do as well as Brighton did today and I think because of that it was hard to create spaces in and around the box to create clear cut chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think the chances we had were quite congested in front of the ball, so the box was congested, or just that final detail when we broke through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While our FA Cup run has come to an end, we still have a UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League semi-final to look forward to as well as five more Women\u2019s Super League games before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course we look forward to that because we want to be competing,\u201d Ren\u00e9e said, \u201cbut that\u2019s also why we\u2019re very disappointed today, because we want to be competing in the FA Cup as well.\u201d <\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"0a46e2c1-367b-4cea-a73a-e695274fd012\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"126146\" about=\"\/fixture\/women\/2026-Apr-05\/women-brighton-women-match-report\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"Report: Arsenal Women 0-2 Brighton\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Report: Arsenal Women 0-2 Brighton <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9e Slegers felt that we didn\u2019t create enough chances to beat Brighton &#038; Hove Albion in the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon. 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