A very subjective look into AWFC

I’m listening to Suedehead by Morrissey and this I thought the pun would be very clever… probably not. Anyway… Today I’m flying back to LA and sadly don’t have as much time as I would like to chat about the actual matches as far as the NED/SWE wins and also a bit about the uswnt but its also not Arsenal related so I gotta figure out how to bride that gap.

Today though, I do have time to mention how happy I am for our swedes, but specially for Hurtig. Holy sh*t, the bad luck she’s had… the injuries… the not so stellar performances… and all of these are just with Arsenal. Now with Sweden, things aren’t that much better. She has barely played any important part in the actual matches but when called upon, she delivered… even if it was by a hair. She scored the winning penalty to reach the Quarterfinals against the #1 ranked team, who had won 2 World Cups in a row, who everyone here thought was going to walk this competition.

I have to admit that Hurtig is a player that I don’t rate to highly because I don’t think she’s played enough minutes for me to have an opinion other than my current short sighted view and absurd need to be impressed as if my opinion matters at all. She’s a pro, she’s a winner and she is ours. Even if she missed that penalty I would have supported her even more because I don’t think she would’ve deserved that.

As far as our other swedes: Amanda had a great match I thought and Stina is working so damn hard and presses non stop. I can’t wait to rewatch this match too, along with the dutch one as well. And having this trifecta of players, winning, battling and working together can only solidify Arsenal as a whole and if you add that with Steph and Caitlin plus Noelle and Lia, I think we are about to see our team kick into another gear.

Only one team can win but our girls are winners, even when they lose. They will overcome it all, they will want to win more than ever and if it’s at club level then us arsenal fans win. And yes, other teams have something similar going on… I know there are tons of Chelsea players killing it, Barca too but I would need to really look at the squads to ,now if my point applies to other teams as crucially as it does to us.

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