Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! And then there was one. The Arsenal Women team went crashing out of the Women’s FA Cup after an unexpected home defeat to Brighton, halting their streak of eleven consecutive wins in all competitions, in the process. Renée Slegers rotated her starting XI following the intense away game at Chelsea, in […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Arsenal Women recorded their 11th consecutive win in all competitions, courtesy of a resounding 5-2 defeat of Tottenham Hotspur at the Emirates Stadium. Alessia Russo, Caitlin Foord and Stina Blackstenius were among the goals in what has become over time a very familiar scoreline for a home North London Derby, and […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Sometimes you need a strike of luck to go all the way through, and our beloved team had plenty of that against Chelsea. Don’t get me wrong, they played very well and scored three beautiful goals, but Chelsea can consider themselves unlucky to leave North London with a two-goals deficit after […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Renée Slegers and her players completed a remarkable week with three wins in as many games to book a place in the knock-out phase of the UWCL and the quarterfinals of the FA Cup. To use the head coach words, the team “finished the block” in a stylish way and are […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados!It was too good to be true, wasn’t it? During more than an hour, the Arsenal Women team were all over Bayern Munich, in Germany, and could have scored five, six goals. The intensity, purpose, aggression and organization showed by the players, masterfully directed by Renée Slegers, were sensational, and the hosts […]
56,500 were in attendance to the only recorded moment in history when fans, management and players pleaded for VAR to be clear and obvious. At mid-day, deep in the control room at Stockley Park, a lonely VAR official put on his headset,and settled in for his afternoon shift. Chelski went 1-0 up after 9 minutes […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Our girls returned from the international break and won comfortably against Leicester City at the King Power Stadium, recording their third consecutive win in all competitions. Goals from Alessia Russo and Stina Blackstenius, plus an own goal from the host, saw the Gunners breeze past Leicester and remain within touching distance […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Back from Lisbon with a much-needed win, the Arsenal Women team will go into the international break in a much more relaxed mood and can look at the future with less anxiety and a bit more of confidence. Performance-wise, it wasn’t exactly a convincing outing for Renée Slegers’ players, but Arsenal […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Going two games winless was already far from ideal. Going winless in three consecutive games is a near catastrophe, especially if the third game of the row is an away defeat to Manchester City. I was expecting a tough game, and a loss was always on the card, but it doesn’t […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! You didn’t dream, it was real: Arsenal are champions of Europe (again!). In what could be described as one of the biggest upsets in women’s football, Renée Slegers and her players defeated the mighty Barcelona Femení in Lisbon. A goal from Stina Blackstenius was enough to bring home the second UWCL […]
