Tottenham's last match 'not good enough'
Tottenham defender Molly Bartrip says the team have to "prove why we should be in this league" in their final six games of the Women's Super League season.Spurs currently lie seventh in the table having lost their past four league matches in a row, including last weekend's 1-0 defeat by Brighton.She told BBC Sport: "It's been a bit of a rollercoaster. We've had some really good performances, and some we're definitely not proud of. "I think you can look throughout the season and see there are lots of things we can improve on. The weekend's result was not good enough. With our standards, we set them a lot higher than that. "Overall we have six games left so we have to kick on and prove why we should be in this league and prove to each other why we should be fighting for each other."Her side travels to West Ham on Sunday (12:00 GMT kick-off), while they also face relegation candidates Leicester and Aston Villa in their final six games."All the games are winnable," says Bartrip. "The teams we are playing are in and around us. We should be looking at it positively in that way. "Looking at the quality in the squad, we have it in us. We just have to make sure we are doing it at the weekend."
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