Tottenham manager Martin Ho says he does not want to "keep scoring more and more" every week as that will mean his defence is not doing its job.
Spurs were scintillating going forward in their 7-3 victory at Aston Villa on Sunday but Ho criticised the nature of the goals they allowed.
"I don't want to concede three goals, we shouldn't be conceding three goals," he said on Thursday, before the FA Cup fifth-round tie against London City Lionesses on Monday (19:30 GMT).
"If you do that the top level, you've got to always outscore and I don't want to have to be scoring more and more every single week, just to outscore an opponent."
Having threatened to break up the status quo in the Women's Super League this season, Ho is targetting similar in the FA Cup, although he knows London City pose a significant hurdle to his hopes of going further in the competition.
It is 14 years since a team other than Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United won the tournament.
"You want to be amongst it - you want to get to those latter stages of the competition," he said.
"We want to make sure that it's not just seen as a team from the top four that has always won it over the last period. We need to make sure that we can upset that.
"We don't want to be here just to take part. We want to make sure that we can be successful and get ourselves through to the final."
