It has been a troublesome begin for United and it’ll not get simpler this weekend after they journey to Emirates Stadium to face Arsenal on Saturday (17:30 BST).
The Gunners are unbeaten in 19 WSL video games and United haven’t received there since November 2022.
Backside of the desk with zero factors and one objective scored just isn’t the place United need to be – however is that this a part of the method to show issues round?
“Yeah, soccer is like life. You’ve good moments and troublesome moments. I feel all of the groups within the season have a troublesome second. Ours is the beginning,” mentioned Olid.
“We’re studying as a crew to develop as a result of the troublesome moments make you develop. As soon as we have handed this troublesome second and begin [to build] momentum, I feel we might be so significantly better.
“My foremost message [to the players] has been about them being themselves. They aren’t exhibiting within the first two matches who they’re and what they will do.”
Olid has urged her gamers to retain the defensive solidity that they had constructed beneath Skinner, that led them to the Champions League quarter-finals.
She has beforehand referred to as for persistence, insisting United want time to adapt to her new model.
“They can’t neglect what they have been good at earlier than. On the identical time, little by little, we have to implement the brand new model,” she added.
“But it surely’s not possible to be doing the whole lot. The gamers have been so targeted and pondering lots – overthinking perhaps – attempting to do the whole lot and ultimately, they do not do something as a result of they don’t seem to be expressing themselves like I do know they will.”
Opposition supervisor, Arsenal’s Renee Slegers, says Olid has “had so little time” and she or he understands the problem she is dealing with.
“As a coach it is a choice you make – are you going to vary issues right away or are you going to have one other strategy the place, over time, you look to attempt to change issues progressively?” mentioned Slegers.
“That is in all probability the stability for her. I do not know what her philosophy is however I think about it is a problem. I perceive the frustration from a fan perspective – however there was so little time.”