A very subjective look into AWFC

That’s one of those crazy things that happen in football. People that don’t love this sport would have a hard time understanding how someone, let alone millions of people, be happy by losing. Needless to say theres a caveat to this and we had won the first leg, duh.

Lots of positives to take from yesterday. Daphne flawless, Alessia had probably her best match ” as a 10″ ever for us, Kim solid as per. Also when Beth came in she once again proves she’s among the best players on the pitch and we NEED her at 10 supporting Alessia.

However, there was a lot of things that Renee needs to address IMO.

The first one is telling her coaching staff to calm the fuck down. These men are just yelling and screaming and complaining to the 4th ref all the time. I cannot think of any other women’s club where this happens and if they all have to be sent off and be in the stands forever then so be it.

Let the woman do her job, in peace.

I also cannot understand how Foord and Frida keep making the same mistakes over and over and their poor decision making didn’t cost us yesterday but it will if they keep doing it. That’s just how football works and we got so lucky yesterday. Had McCabe been sent off as she should’ve, those last few minutes would’ve been insane and potentially catastrophic.

Foord always tries to run through people and it never works because they are people and not clouds. What’s with that? She was through on goal and made the worst possible decision but as I have said before, all is forgiven FOREVER because of that tackle vs Rolfo in the final last year. So, I’m sorry Caitlin, I apologize, you do you, boo.

We simply cannot afford to not score like we did yesterday. If we play against Lyon or Barcelona or Bayern, we will have to be considerably more ruthless because if we won’t have Leah and Steph, WE WILL CONCEDE GOALS. I don’t know how bad Steph’s injury is but we better hope that she’s back when the tie comes.

The goal we allowed was really had. Watch it back… really, really poor defending and we got lucky to be fair. LWM had one of her best matches for us I’ve seen in a while but these types of mistakes are among the reasons why I think we need Leah and Steph, as much as possible. BTW she had a very cool interview with Jen Beattie for the feed here in the USA.

Let me clear something up too, I’m not worried about our defense. Holmberg is the real deal and Hinds is as solid as you’d want a player to be. Katie is Katie and I trust her with my life and also we need to talk about the very few matches she has left in an Arsenal shirt.

I’m gonna miss her.

❤

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