{"id":866314,"date":"2026-04-02T04:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/866314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:26:35","slug":"skinners-message-to-the-united-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/866314\/","title":{"rendered":"Skinner&#8217;s message to the United squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds were tantalisingly close to forcing extra-time in Bavaria, after Melvine Malard\u2019s 11th-minute strike levelled the tie at 3-3.\n<\/p>\n<p>But goals in the final stages from Glodis Viggosdottir and Linda Dallmann ultimately ended our European adventure for 2025\/26.\n<\/p>\n<p>United are still hoping to qualify again next term, and would need a top-three finish in the Barclays WSL to achieve that, overtaking Arsenal or Chelsea in the process, with the Blues hosting us on the final day.<\/p>\n<p>Skinner said that, following the game, he\u2019d reiterated the fact that three wins in the league would guarantee a return to the competition &#8211; and potentially put us in the position to go further next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds were tantalisingly close to forcing extra-time in Bavaria, after Melvine Malard\u2019s 11th-minute strike levelled the tie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,18,2465,164859,30581,12,20,16,15,21],"class_list":["post-866314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-like","tag-manchester","tag-marc-skinner","tag-mu-women","tag-news","tag-search","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-now"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116333221600170801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866314","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=866314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}