Livingston Women's winger feels cup defeat can spur Lionesses to league victory
dailyrecord.co.ukLivingston Women's winger Erin Burns believes last weekend's Sky Sports Cup defeat at St Johnstone will stand the team in good stead on Sunday when they make the same trip again for an SWPL2 fixture.Burns netted twice for the Lionesses but they exited the cup in extra-time, going down 3-2.
It was a much-changed side for the visitors with gaffer Mike Ross electing to make 10 changes to the starting line-up.The former Edinburgh City ace was one of those handed a first start of the campaign and she made the most of the opportunity with a pair of goals - although she'd have happily traded them in for a victory.Speaking to the West Lothian Courier, she said: "I'm happy to score goals but it doesn't mean as much if you don't get the win because that's the most important thing.
Unfortunately we weren't able to get that done but hopefully we can turn it around on Sunday and get the three points."Everyone likes scoring goals or making important passes or tackles but we're all the same in the squad - we want to win.
That's the only aim going into games and that's what we'll be going out to achieve on Sunday."There was a load of changes to the side and that does show the strength in depth.
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