The late, late show …

Morning all, welcome to a brand new week.

Let’s begin with Arsenal Ladies notching their first victory of the season to this point, leaving it very, very late to beat Aston Villa 2-1. First, Katie McCabe did this, then Alessia Russo fired home a winner to take all three factors. A pleasant strike, however I’m unsure the Villa keeper could have slept effectively final evening.

Katie stated:

We performed proper til the very finish and I feel it exhibits the mentality on this staff. The ladies coming off the bench and making the affect they did, and you realize what, 35,000 followers right here to cheer us on on the Emirates was unbelievable, so we’re simply delighted to get the win for them immediately.

The successful aim got here from a Beth Mead cross, making her comeback from the ACL harm final season, and afterwards Jonas Eidevall stated of her involvement in that aim:

Beth Mead is extraordinarily intuitive in these moments. She comes onto the pitch and typically you assume ‘will she get that immediately?’ And typically you don’t, however she does as a result of she is Beth Mead.

She has had a very tough yr, being injured, her mum passing away. It has been extremely robust, it’s so good to see her again on the pitch, with the ability to carry out immediately. You by no means know that, you will have the hope, in any other case I wouldn’t have put her on however you don’t know till you see. A particular second for her.

It has been a tough begin to the season, however hopefully this win is the second that sparks issues into life. The return of Beth Mead is a giant increase clearly, and there are different key gamers to return too, so fingers crossed. As ever, Tim has all the post-game reaction from the manager on Arseblog News, and for extra, there’s one other glorious match day vlog, which you’ll be able to see over on our YouTube channel.

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There was Interlull motion for Martin Odegaard final evening as he performed the complete 90 minutes of Norway’s 1-0 defeat to Spain. That end result means Scotland have certified for the European Championships, and in addition leaves Norway scrabbling to make it through the play-offs, however they’re depending on different outcomes to get them there. David Raya was on the bench for Spain who’ve additionally certified from that group.

The one different Arsenal participant in motion yesterday was Jakub Kiwior, who performed the complete sport as Poland drew 1-1 with Moldova. There’s not a lot taking place immediately, though Mohamed Elneny may get some minutes as Egypt play a pleasant in opposition to Algeria, and there are gamers in motion tomorrow and Wednesday, however we’ll take a look at that within the subsequent couple of days.

And that’s actually it. These latest Interlulls have been very quiet, extra so than ordinary, and it additionally appears like they’re having an even bigger affect on the season than earlier than. There’s one other one in November too, in order that’s one thing to not sit up for.

Proper, I’ll depart it there. We’ll have an Arsecast Further for you a bit in a while. Maintain an eye fixed out for the decision for questions on Twitter @gunnerblog and @arseblog on Twitter with the hashtag #arsecastextra – or when you’re on Arseblog Member on Patreon, depart your query within the #arsecast-extra-questions channel on our Discord server.

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