The Champions League positives Marc Skinner believes can help Manchester United challenge

Manchester United Women boss Marc Skinner wants the pain of their midweek Champions League exit to PSG to inspire domestic success as the Reds prepare to visit Everton in the Women's Super League.

United will hope to bounce back from their defeat in France when their European campaign ended at the final qualifying stage with a 4-2 aggregate loss after a 3-1 defeat in Paris. But Skinner insists there are positives to take for the rest of the campaign as United seek to challenge for honours.

“I’ve been really happy with the performance," he said. "What I'm asking for is that the players are ruthless. If I take the result aside for a second, the second-half performance against PSG, to take it to them to out-possess them and we should’ve scored right? It was a goal, we’ve got an apology from the officials - it's still not good enough but we can score. We create chances, we hit the post.

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“It didn't go our way on the night but I was really happy with the performance and we’re going to do that against Everton. We've got to continue that performance, we’ve got to be hungry and I'm going to make sure we are.”

United are unbeaten against Everton in all eight league games in the top tier - winning six and drawing twice. Last time out, Everton held the Reds to a goalless draw in February 2023 at Leigh Sports Village, the only WSL clean sheet the Toffee’s have kept against United to date.

Skinner said: “When I look at Everton, they’ve not had the results they would have wanted but when I watched the Leicester game when they lost 1-0 I felt that they