KELLY CHAMBERS is demanding even more from her players as Reading Women prepare to face Arsenal tomorrow.
Royals are in a rich vein of form, unbeaten in four and have won their last two games 5-0 and 4-0.
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However, Chambers still wants to see improvement from Reading’s Conti Cup opening 4-0 win over Watford Ladies on Wednesday evening when they travel to Arsenal in the second group game.
“Performance wise, I expected better against Watford,” said the boss.
“I still want more from them. I still want more in the sense of we can compete with Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City.
“That’s where we want to be. We can do that this season and I’ll ask for more going forward for the rest of the season.
“We want to go to Arsenal as we have for the other games that we’ve been playing – we want to win.
“We’ve got great momentum at the minute. We’ve been scoring goals, we’ve been keeping clean sheets and we need to continue that.
“I still want more from my players and the team, so you can definitely see more from us going forward.”
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One player Chambers is hoping will take a boost from Wednesday’s win is Kirsty Linnett.
The striker saw a number of chances come and go before eventually netting her first goal for the club in the second half against Watford having joined Reading in May.
“I think it was important for her to get off the mark,” said Chambers.
“We knew that. We know she’s a natural goalscorer.
“We knew that she had to get that one and get off the mark and she’s done that. Hopefully now we’ll see her flourish.”
And goalkeeper Grace Moloney, who made her first appearance of the season in midweek, says the goals were always going to come for Linnett.
“I’m buzzing for Kirst,” Moloney told The Wokingham Paper.
“She works really hard. She does extra in training with Phil (Cousins) all the time and the goals will come for her.
“She was unbelievable in pre-season. She would score four or five a game, so the goals will come for her.
“She just needs to keep working hard.”
She added: “Arsenal haven’t got a manager at the minute and even if they did, we’d still go there and fancy our chances.
“We’ve got a great squad. We’re sitting in a great position at the minute.
“We’re on the back of a good run so obviously we fancy our chances.
“Hopefully we can go there and get the result.”
