Tottenham Hotspur head coach Martin Ho says the Women’s FA Cup is a “prestigious” and “amazing” competition.
So he won’t be making any needless changes as his side head into their fourth-round tie against Leicester City.
“I take every game serious[ly], and I don’t see any of these cup competitions as ones where we will rotate for the sake of it,” he said in a press conference on Friday. “We go into the game with the strongest team to be competitive and we want to compete for all honours.”
Tottenham finished as runners-up in the 2024 final, and Ho said that his squad would like to equal and surpass that achievement.
“Players speak about it very widely because the players know and I know and the club know the FA Cup is a cup that can cause upsets or provide a lot of success and probably happiness for a lot of fans, because you’re playing upon the biggest if not the most unique stadium in world football at Wembley, and we want to make sure that we have the opportunity to do that again.”
Martin Ho: Tottenham need to find a way to be different against Leicester
Tottenham hosted Leicester in the WSL last weekend, winning 1-0 thanks to an Ash Neville own goal, but Ho isn’t taking anything for granted.
“Whoever you draw in these competitions, you have to perform against them,” he said. “Unfortunately, it’s been us playing them back-to-back and probably me and Rick will be sick of one another by the end of the game!
“It’s not easy to plan for, but it makes it more probably streamlined because you’re working off the same opponent, but you can maybe have to find a way you can be a little bit different in the second game, how you can maybe change things, whether that’s personnel or tactically, to be a little bit more unpredictable. So the planning process has been the same as it was the week before. We’re just trying to use some new information and data we picked up from the game in the league.”
