by Arsenal has the difficulties of her FA Cup defeat with an important 3-1 win against Everton in the Super League of women. A clip by Alessia Russo and his own goal by Maren Mjelde gave the Gunners important three points in the fight for a place in the Champions League.
The Renée Slegers side is the typical puzzle of a soccer team. In a minute you can be one of the most striking in the league; The next, absolutely frustrating in their inability to break up their opposition.
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This season there were different points from dissatisfaction with regard to the Gunners. Such a time culminated in the Cescendo of noise, which led to Jonas Eisevall’s departure in October. Last week, the dissatisfaction of the team’s passionate fan base imposed again after her team from Liverpool from Liverpool at the quarter-finals, which she had on only two fronts, was thrown out of the FA Cup without further ado. One of them is the WSL, where you have 11 points behind on Friday, with your chances of revising them slim at best. The other is a little matter of the Champions League, in which the success of an English team has been withdrawn since Arsenal last year 2007.
There is no doubt that it was a few years in relation to the cutlery for a Club of Arsenal’s stature. Since two league cups have come since their last league title in 2018-19 and they have not won the FA Cup in nine years. Your failure becomes even stronger if you look over to your London rival Chelsea and compare the trophy traffic that has come in your way.
It is a difficult expectation for managers to meet. In her first six months, the 36-year-old undoubtedly improved Arsenal’s assets-the 11-game run at the beginning of her term of office is proof of this. The long-term problems not to build a low block, a lack of quality quality over the 15 best players and their own place as a young development manager are everything that slips ups inevitably occur. There is also the feeling that it really needs a full transfer window to completely build a squad in your picture, a correction that can only happen in summer.
The game had transformed this increasing situation on Friday evening against a reconciling Everton into a must. It was a fortress that could have been a stereotypical stumbling block. Since the winter break and the purchase of the club by the Friedkin Group, Brian Sørensen’s side has given money to change an asset to strengthen an injury squad.
Slegers opted for Arsenals older guard to try to bring stability back. Lia Wälti and Kim Little were combined in the middle, with 23-year-old Kyra Cooney-Cross falling on the bench.
In the first half, the same old problems for visitors appeared when they tried to destroy the compact block of the opposition. Tactically, they tried different things to unlock the rooms – Leah Williamson fell into the midfield and Katie McCabe pressed up on the left – but they found it difficult.
They looked at their best when they increased the speed of their death, and so the breakthrough came in 24 minutes. So often Little has produced the moment of magic in her career and her visionary run in building Russo’s goal was a symbol of the quality that she brings.
However, their joy did not take long, with Everton’s effectiveness on the transition causing dismaying for the backline of Arsenal. The strength and pace of Kelly Gago to get Wälti off the ball, and the quick thinking thinking by Toni Payne saw that the hosts had the score shortly before the break.
Arsenal was greatly improved in the second half and played with a new intensity that her opponents held on the back foot. Where she did not change Liverpool last Sunday, Slegers was much more ready to influence from the bank to attach four players-Beth Mead, Stina Blackstenius, Caitlin Foord and Kyra Cooney-Cross in the 61st minute. The effect was immediately with three of the four movements involved in the construction until their second participation, which culminated for Maren Mjelde to an unfortunate goal.
Arsenal had control from this point and denied it to make it more comfortable both by the woodwork and through the brilliance of Courtney Brosnan. A second from Russo deeply into an injury ensured that the cannonies traveled home with important three points. After Manchester United slipped against Liverpool, it was a result that they rose to second place – the perfect end of a difficult week.
