“The most important thing is the three points,” he said. “It wasn’t clean, we should have been up in the game in the first half, but full credit to the players to dig in, to stick with it.”
In the first half United’s players began to cut frustrated figures, as the visitors repelled every opportunity that Skinner’s side carved out.
And the United Women manager revealed what he said to his players at half-time.
“[The half-time team talk] was more about our mindset,” he said. “I asked them to play like women, and not like girls with inexperienced decisions.