A very subjective look into AWFC

As I take a look at the fixtures for the next few weeks, I can’t help but think: things have changed! There was a point, not so long ago, where I would pick out 12 points out of 4 matches, easily, and they would be pretty much guaranteed. This is something I also try to characterize when I say that the times of a second half Lisa Evans hat tricks are gone… and that’s a good thing.

Essentially this all means there are no easy games and it’s one of those things where you can assume things at your own peril. Liverpool proved it, Tottenham reinforced it. Maybe we were that for Chelsea too, but the fact is that for me at least, I cannot assume anymore that any match would be easy.

Except for one variable which to me is virtually omnipotent and that is when, not if, Vivianne Miedema starts playing 90 min, assisting and scoring. If this is happening then I truly believe we can win every single match, always. Simply put: Viv is my super power.

This is not me assuming she will do all this or that I’m expecting her to be even better than before or anything related to standards I want her to keep, this is just about the fact that if she’s fully fit, I have much more confidence and it reduces doubt.

There are players in world football, for men and women, who we feel they always have a mistake in them. I surely feel that way and have felt that way about many players for many teams. Where you just don’t fully “trust” them. Then there are players that you would trust with your life, and if Viv isn’t one of them then idk who is.

The most important thing about her involvement in the squad is just that. She needs to be involved, on the pitch as much as her body allows her to, as she glues everything together and she also terrifies opponents, which is something that I feel we are missing.

Just a couple more days left on the year which to me just means we’re getting closer to the WSL transfer window opening. I’m excited…