Brighton & Hove Albion head coach Dario Vido\u0161i\u0107 says that this afternoon\u2019s opponents London City Lionesses pose an interesting challenge for his side.<\/p>\n
The Pride have impressed in their debut season in the Barclays Women\u2019s Super League, collecting 15 points from nine games so far.<\/p>\n
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When speaking in the pre-match press conference, Brighton & Hove Albion head coach Vido\u0161i\u0107 highlighted London City Lionesses\u2019 quality and said that his side face an interesting game at the Copperjax Community Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve done well,\u201d Vido\u0161i\u0107 said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the natural kind of team from previous years that has been promoted, these girls know this level very well and have played at a very high level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you take Nikita [Parris] for example, she is the third-best goalscorer in Super League history, Freya Godfrey has now been called into the Lionesses, [Izzy] Goodwin won\u2019t be far away from being called into the national team because she\u2019s doing well with the Under-23s. You go through that squad and there\u2019s a lot of experience, they\u2019ve played at the highest level, the biggest stage.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAs a team, they\u2019ve found their feet, had some good results and they like to lock on player-to-player. It makes for an interesting challenge for us but we will work and try and find ways to implement our game, make it as difficult as possible for them as well. We know it\u2019s a tough game but it\u2019s a fantastic challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Seagulls Nikita Parris and Poppy Pattinson are now members of the London City Lionesses squad and Vido\u0161i\u0107 is looking forward to this afternoon\u2019s reunion.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cThey were both terrific. I really enjoyed working with them and look forward to seeing them this weekend. I saw Nikita a few weeks ago. She was finishing off her coaching course or a block of that at the time, so it was really nice to have a little chat with her.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019ll be nice to see them and hopefully, we will keep them quiet. We know that they\u2019re two good players that we know well and they know us well. Looking forward to seeing them again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brighton & Hove Albion\u2019s final two games of 2025 look tough with Chelsea to come next weekend. Vido\u0161i\u0107 is looking towards both matches positively.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cFor me, I go day-by-day, game-by-game. We don\u2019t think \u2018we just want to get through it and get to January\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it never changes; we are going to win, that\u2019s our intent and then we have another fantastic game at home against the current champions who are undefeated. We felt last year that we were close; we conceded a goal that was offside and we had a pretty strong penalty not given to us. We can take a lot of confidence.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFirst, we\u2019ve got London City, so we are preparing for them and look forward to another good battle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brighton & Hove Albion\u2019s Barclays Women\u2019s Super League fixture at London City Lionesses kicks-off at 12pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton & Hove Albion head coach Dario Vido\u0161i\u0107 says that this afternoon\u2019s opponents London City Lionesses pose an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[192459,1169,21116,748,885,192460,393,4884,257,37068,123229,6533,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-617829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-barclays-womens-super-league","9":"tag-brighton","10":"tag-brighton-hove-albion","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-chelsea","13":"tag-dario-vidosic","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-london-city-lionesses","18":"tag-nikita-parris","19":"tag-super-league","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115678076147976801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}