fuck outta here with the ‘we need to humble them’ gimmick.
You got special permission from UEFA to wear your home kit in 2025 because you wanted the ‘3 in a row’ pic to look better.
Laporta openly celebrated us making the final over Lyon.
That was the humbling. It was perfect.
Barça fans talking about wanting to embarrass us 😂 We’ve drawn AT HOME to Palace & Birmingham, we’ve played 4 home WSL matches and haven’t had the lead at any point… We could lose 16-0 tomorrow and I wouldn’t find it half as embarrassing as our league performances this season.
Barça fans talking about wanting to embarrass us 😂 We’ve drawn AT HOME to Palace & Birmingham, we’ve played 4 home WSL matches and haven’t had the lead at any point… We could lose 16-0 tomorrow and I wouldn’t find it half as embarrassing as our league performances this season.
pre-match interviews can just be scrapped at this point 😂
Can we turn our season around?
“Every game is a chance to show who we are.”
Russo’s good at football, eh?
“Yep.”
she’ll look a lot more comfortable.
If she starts CF Thursday tho it’s all about trying to spam long balls for the counter.
Interested to see the XI Thursday, feel we press as a team better with Frida x Russo as the top 2, but our best chance at scoring could be a Liv counter.
probably my favourite Russo10 goal. (Unsurprisingly) it can often look like she’s making CF movements when the ball is out wide, this was much better. Getting connection on the run so there’s no need to generate power is the bonus to playing deeper. First time cross a huge help.
Need to stop playing it into Liv’s feet, back to goal with a defender on top of her. Same issue as Stina, neither have the strength/guile to keep possession and bring others into play.
Against ‘weaker’ teams If she can drop in and get the ball quick on the half-turn I think…
@Eli97720Elisha I don’t think it’s wrong if there’s fans wanting Renee out after the start to this season, she’s made it far harder for herself than she has needed to. I feel there’s a fair few managers out there that would have us on a much better points tally than we do right now.
every time I think I’m fully RenéeOut my fyp shows me someone either ironically or unironically suggesting Skinner/Cushing and it makes me realise I’d rather watch us play in the semi-pro leagues with Renée than the options Wheatley and Co. would choose from.
@jtutker16 Honestly inexcusable how bad it’s been. I thought we left ourselves a little short in key areas going into this season, but there’s no way I thought it’d be this poor, and there’s no way this squad is as bad as we’ve seen these first couple months.
Fox: RB, LB
Smilla: RB, RW
Ona: LB, RB
de Almeida: LB, RCB, LCB, RB
Little: CM, AM
Mariona: AM, LW
Smith: RW, LW, CF
Kelly: RW, LW
Baum: LW, RW
Russo: CF, AM
Versatility should be a bonus, not a key attribute. Can’t build any consistency this way, first season for 3 of them too.
@hecenmo@FionaQuigs No, but in Baum’s first 5 WSL appearances she managed more goals than Foord has in her last 27.
Baum is in her 1st season outside of her home country, and only her 2nd season in top-flight football as a whole. She’s also playing in the worst Arsenal side in recent history.
So, so frustrating reading ‘Alessia in the 10 has worked because she has played well’. It’s not just about her individual performance level, when she’s in the 9, our wingers play better, our midfield is more balanced. Of course she’s played well, she’d play well at CB…
@lisa03865019 Been this way for a while now (players having their best game when on the bench) I normally point the blame at the coach when that’s the case, but I wonder how much say Renée gets in transfers. Surely she wasn’t lobbying for an overpaid, deadline day signing of an injured player.
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@FionaQuigs Yeah the Liv situation is just madness to me, she did get the winner against City last season from CF so I guess they can say it’s not entirely bad, but it just feels like such a waste of time and talent. Our whole season has been about highlighting this squads negatives tbh.
@FionaQuigs Hurts to see our most creative winger get forced into a position that highlights her negatives & rarely shows her strengths. If Russo was in the 10 for a world-class CF I could let it slide but it’s just… ugh.
Yeah, the shifts from Foord are respectable but the output is bleak.
Russo having to be asked if that 2-1 win where the opponent had a perfectly legitimate goal ruled out was a turning point in our season… right before we play Barça / LCL / Lyon
😂😂 she answered well but c’mon…