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Continental Cup Preview: Spurs vs Coventry United

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Tottenham Hotspur Ladies find themselves back in action tomorrow afternoon with an FA Women’s Continental League Cup match at home to Women’s Championship side Coventry United. The match at Brisbane Road kicks off at at 2 PM BST.

This is Spurs’ second match in the Conti Cup’s Group E, having already beaten Reading 2-1 in October, and Coventry are currently topping the group by a goal, having beaten the remaining side in the group, Southampton, 2-0 in their opening group game.

However, that win against Southampton remains Coventry United’s solitary competitive win this season. Indeed, Lee Burch’s side presently find themselves stranded at the bottom of the Championship, having lost nine out of nine league matches so far this season after a tumultuous 2021/22 campaign that saw United secure their Championship status in the most dramatic of circumstances.

Despite being deducted ten points amid administrative turmoil off the pitch, the visitors survived relegation from the Championship last season by the skin of their teeth, beating Watford on the last day of the season to consign their opponents to relegation,

Spurs have only faced Coventry United twice, beating them 5-0 in the FA Cup three seasons ago, and 3-2 in the Continental League Cup last season, where Spurs needed a late goal from Rachel Williams to overcome their stubborn opponents and progress to the quarter-finals of the competition.

Ahead of the match, Rehanne Skinner alluded to the notion of rotating her squad ahead of the Christmas break on mid-December in her pre-match press conference:

It’s probably really important for them to focus on league games, you’d imagine at this stage, but for us it’s really important to bring back players into the squad who have had limited minutes for varying reasons, in terms of injuries and things like that. 

“It’s an opportunity to try to get everybody onto the same page. I’ve said it before, the whole squad’s really important and it’s been difficult at times, with the amount of injuries and things that have happened that have stopped us from having players available to us all the time. 

“This is now an opportunity for us to get everyone on the same page leading into those last few games going into the Christmas break.

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