Our reigning Barclays Women’s Super League champions fell to our first defeat of the season after a 1-0 loss at Chelsea on Saturday afternoon.
Sandy Baltimore’s strike on the brink of half-time proved the only difference as City also played the final 15 minutes of the top-of-the-table clash with 10 players following Ayaka Yamashita’s dismissal for a foul on Alyssa Thompson.
Despite being a player short, the aspect that was missing for our City boss was our clinical edge.
“Being able to turn the chances to goals, maybe,” reflected Jeglertz when asked what didn’t quite click for his side at Stamford Bridge.
“We had some great opportunities in the game that we could have done better. But in general, I think we are had an okay game.
“It was a tough opponent we were playing. It’s a tough game. I think we deserved more than we’re getting [a point] but it’s also difficult when you get one player sent off.
“But the players should be very proud of what they’re doing when that happened, how we managed to still create chances.
“The energy was there. Some new players were coming on. We are disappointed about the result, but the performance is, in general, okay.”
City can’t dwell on the defeat for too long as our focus now shifts back to the UEFA Champions League.
We travel to BK Hacken on Wednesday 18 November, with kick-off in Sweden set for 17:45 (UK).
And for Jeglertz, he feels it will be the perfect opportunity to take the positives from our Chelsea defeat onto the European stage.
“I think if you lose a game, you will be disappointed directly after but as long as the performance is something that you feel that there was a lot of good things, we bring [those] with us to Hacken and that’s how I feel.
“We’re disappointed today and tomorrow and then we go again.”
