But the City boss joked that he was urging the centre-back not to shoot before the Australia international proved him ‘wrong’.
The defender lit the blue touch paper in Vienna when she met Aoba Fujino’s cut-back to rifle into the net via the post, breaking the deadlock at Viola Park.
It represented her maiden goal on the European stage and first for over two years for the Club, but the visitors were unable to add to our lead despite a flurry of great chances before the hosts equalised five minutes before half-time.
St Polten then went ahead shortly after the break, but City fought from a goal down to collect three points thanks to goals from Fujino and Mary Fowler.
And Taylor believes missed chances will be punished in the Champions League, but praised how his side responded to the setback to extend our unbeaten run to eight matches in all competitions this season.
“[Kennedy’s goal] was a hell of a hit. To be honest, I wasn’t so sure when she was taking the hit it was the right call,” he admitted.
“She proved me wrong and it was a great strike. It set us off nicely and we should have had more goals. I remember us missing really good opportunities to increase the lead.
“That’s what can happen in any game, not just this competition, where if you don’t increase the lead you can leave yourself susceptible to a couple of set plays which we needed to deal with better. There’s no doubt about that.
“After that, I made changes, we scored the second goal before I made the changes, then it was really nice to go and win the game.
“I liked what we did at the end of the game as well, we controlled the last 10 minutes. It’s really important that and not easy to do because they were a really energetic team.
“They pressed really hard.”
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