Walsh: Last Bristol City meeting was turning point

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The Albion keeper has been in impressive form for her side.

Bruce Talbot

2021-04-18T05:30:00Z

Megan Walsh kept a clean sheet in Albion's last outing - a 1-0 win over Manchester United.

Megan Walsh is proud of how Albion have recovered from the 'low point' of their 3-0 defeat to Sunday's opponents Bristol City.

Since that WSL defeat at the end of January, Albion have won five of their six games and Walsh has kept four clean sheets during that sequence.

“We've come on leaps and bounds from that game,” said Walsh. “We bounced back with that brilliant win against Chelsea and even when we had a bad day against Everton recently, we won the next game 1-0 against Manchester United.

“We've shown we can compete teams in the top four and we've been consistent and hard to beat. We don’t want to go back to how we felt after that Bristol game.”

The 26-year-old has made more saves in the ten year history of the WSL than anyone else with 450 across her spells with Notts County, Yeovil and Albion, whom she joined in 2019.

But she believes she can become even better and says the other keepers in the squad push her on.

“We all learn from each other. I’m good friends with Cecilie [Fiskerstrand] and Katie [Startup]. Obviously they want to play as well but they also want what is best for the team so we are really supportive and pass on experience and advice to each other.”

There is the incentive of a home tie in the fifth round against Huddersfield or Derby County for Sunday’s winners. “We know Bristol will come here and make it difficult for us, but we want to keep the good run going until the end of the season,” added Walsh.