Villa aiming for 'culture of winning', says Arroyo

Aston Villa manager Natalia Arroyo says they want to "create a winning culture" by beating Liverpool in the Women's Super League on Thursday.

Villa sit eighth in the table with two wins and four draws from their opening nine matches.

They drew with European champions Arsenal in September and beat Manchester United away from home last month, but Arroyo wants her side to show the same level of "winning desire" against teams below them in the table.

"We need to grow there," she said. "We are competing with the top teams - and we need to keep doing that - but we need to grow in these games where we can have some pressure off.

"We must wins those games and build pressure without a fear of losing. We want more of a desire of winning.

"This feeling we have against the top teams, we need to bring that here also. I want to see if [the players] are better there. We need to grow in this mentality.

"Liverpool are behind us in the table, they need points as much as us, but we are here to create a winning culture and that starts with winning games you think you must win."