Vilahamn’s Tottenham side faced a disappointing end to proceedings last Sunday in their Barclays Women’s Super League clash with Matt Beard’s Liverpool side. Celin Bizet’s poised finish saw the Spurs hold the advantage for the fixture’s duration, before a late goal from Marie Höbinger drew proceedings back even.

The result brings the Spurs back to familiar territory, having found themselves a part of five fixture draws already this season. Vilahamn reflected on the result, and how he believes his squad needs to improve in order to scrape those games over the line.

“We were very disappointed after that game. Of course if you look at it afterwards and remove the feeling and try to look at it again, it’s an even game. Liverpool do their style, and they’re very good at it. We tried to play our style, weren’t perfect in doing it but we’re trying. I think the players are brave enough to dictate the first half, the second half was a bit more tricky because they played even more long balls in behind us.

If you look at it, we don’t lose against the teams under the top four. We haven’t actually lost a single game against those teams and we see great chances and we look how we want to look, so I’m not disappointed with the performance. But we need to learn how to win games as well, that’s what it’s all about. So we need to make sure we make the right decisions, communicate well in the games so we don’t end up losing or having a draw.”

As the Spurs boss said, Tottenham haven’t faced defeat to any opposition below fourth position on the league table so far this season. Vilahamn reflected on how his side aims to continue their strong form, whilst also adopting a circumspect approach to where he believes his side sits in and amongst the league giants.

He said, “I think we work from day one to control games, to control the style we want to play. We play the same way every day in training, the same way every day in games, so we learn how to play that game. The players develop, we add new players to this squad as well so now you can see Tottenham is basically playing the same every game.

Then the opponent needs to compete with that, and some days we’re going to win those games because we are very good, and some days we aren’t really there yet. So I see really good potential in the team, I see that we’re doing good stuff. But I also see that we’re not ready yet to win most of those games in this league.”

In their last meeting just two weeks ago, Manchester City’s Bunny Shaw found her name written on the scoresheet once again. Continuing to be deemed a nightmare for opposition defence, Shaw imposes a real threat on what has been a questionable Spurs last line.

If they search to deliver a positive result on Wednesday evening, the Tottenham manager confirmed that his squad will need to pay particular attention toward the City striker.

“Every time she gets the ball she gets dangerous, she’s a top top top player. But I think in the last game when Amy [Turner] and Molly [Bartrip] were tough on her we actually kept her away most of the time. But then the counterattack and the run and then she scored a goal, so we need to be aware for 95 minutes that you need to hold her really tight. She’s probably the best striker in this league, so it’s going to be tough. But if you do it collectively then you have a bigger chance than if you do it on your own, so we’re going to make sure that we do it together.”

Tottenham’s upcoming clash will see them host Manchester City in the quarterfinal stages of the FA Continental Tyres League Cup. Usually when a side is in a rebuilding stage of construction, the cup competition feeds them with the opportunity to showcase the style of football they are grafting.

Despite his upcoming Mancunian opponents being in particularly unforgiving victorious form, Vilahamn assured that his side will be eager to bring the fight to Manchester City when they host them at Brisbane Road Stadium.

“When you play against one of the top teams in the league who has seven wins in a row and you know that you need a good performance to win this game, then you understand that it’s going to be tough. A cup game is a cup game, if you score a goal you know that you can actually go through a roll and take it to the semi final.

The cup lives it’s own life I would say, it’s to make sure that we are ready for this game- winning or losing and then you’re out. I love those games, because you put everything in and afterwards you’re basically done or you’re through, so it’s a different story to the league games.”

Vilahamn’s schedule sees the Spurs booked and busy in upcoming weeks, hosting Charlton Athletic in the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon. With an opportunity to advance proceedings in both cup competitions, Vilahamn confirmed that his side will come hungry.

“We want to win trophies for the fans, no matter what trophy you win that’s a big thing for the club. The league is probably the toughest one for us to win right now and in the near future, so of course these two cups it’s the closest we will get to get trophies. So, of course we’re going to go all in to make sure we try to win against Man City tomorrow.”