Arsenal head coach Renee Slegers has urged her facet to bounce again from final weekend’s loss to Liverpool within the Adobe Girls’s FA Cup.
An personal aim from goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar was sufficient to ship Liverpool by to the semi-finals after a decent battle at Meadow Park. Arsenal, at the moment ten factors behind Chelsea on the high of the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) desk, now have solely the Champions League as their remaining likelihood to safe silverware this season.
“It was very disappointing,” Slegers acknowledged, talking forward of Friday’s journey to Everton.
“Gamers had been offended on Monday, and we need to do higher as collective shifting ahead, however we won’t impression that anymore, it is behind us. So now we need to look ahead, and that is on Friday, a vital recreation towards Everton within the league, and we all know we’re nonetheless lively in Champions League.
“We’ve got a giant month arising. We’ve got two competitions the place we’re nonetheless lively, and we need to push into all the pieces and to go and get silverware, as a result of it is crucial for the membership.”
Slegers talked about how the frustration of falling out of the FA Cup will work to encourage her facet heading into the business-end of the 2024/25 season.
“You might see the response from the gamers, they had been very disenchanted they usually need extra. So I see that in a constructive manner, as a result of I believe these feelings and that frustration can result in motivation. The women are decided to indicate one thing higher, and I’m as properly,” she stated.
“It is vital for us in video games to resolve the issue that is in entrance of us, and we will all agree that we did not succeed final Sunday. Then it is about what do we have to deal with and emphasise shifting ahead. We have to depart the feelings from final Sunday behind us and have a look at it extra objectively and constructively.”
The Gunners now journey to Walton Corridor Park to face Everton within the WSL. The final assembly between the 2 sides was a carefully contested match, ending in a 0-0 draw at Emirates Stadium.
Everton have loved improved kind over current weeks, successful three of their final 4 WSL video games.
“They change between methods. What it seems to be like Brian is attempting to do is to play them to the energy and modify to the opposition. So I believe that is an actual energy of them they usually’ve acquired it proper now,” Slegers analysed of the opposition.
“I believe they shift properly between an aggressive press. They recognise after they need to press as a staff, however they’re additionally very snug and disciplined after they defend their very own aim and find yourself in a low block. So I believe that is the energy of them, and I believe now we have to attempt to break that down on Friday.”
