Emily Keogh

It's really hard to be in that situation and still play the football you want to play.

And so I think it's one of those that they handled it really well, but they just, I was saying to Soph Downey actually, we sat next to each other, how long can they keep this up for?

Because they started really well.

But like you say, you know, Manchester City have incredible options off the bench.

Brighton's probably aren't.

So they've got a lot of young players that are sort of coming through, really good players.

But when you look at that experience, that ability like Miedema just to come straight into a game,

in that way they probably lack a little bit of that and so it's a really good building point for them and it's now trying to turn this cup run into something a bit more of the norm for them because you know we talk about the importance of cup runs for the team that isn't in Europe but equally the teams that can't win the WSL or

sort of aren't anywhere near that top three.

These are just as important.

And I'm also interested with the potential changes to the League Cup and not having those European sides in there.

How much more does that open up for these teams to have a really good cup run, get a bit of somewhere early on?

And maybe we start seeing it, that we're seeing similar teams in the League Cup final and the FA Cup final in the next few years.

So, like I said, foundations are really solid and it's just now building on that, getting them a bit more time, a few more players.

It's a really strong, strong base.

And yeah, I agree with Dario that it was an unfortunate way to end the game with how they played.

But that's just football at the end of the day.

As a player, obviously, we know how good Leah is, but I think England have learned how to cover her absence on the pitch.

I think they've figured out, in a way, who they would have as their centre-back pairing without her.

Obviously, I know Serena's rotated a fair bit, trying to find a good partnership when Leah's not been available.