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8 goal swing on the GD today. Dear me.

Injuries have finally caught up with us. Players looked knackered after 35 minutes.

No point feeling sorry for ourselves. Still plenty to play for, starting Thursday.  

Was afraid of this performance and now down to ten. Could end up 3 or 4 goals by the end. 

3 games out now.  Just great.

Stupid tackle 

So many times we’ve been sloppy after HT. We need to make some changes and bring some energy back.

Winning the midfield battle is key. Hoping McGinn, Luiz and Tielemans can come out on top. 

Ok interesting, so a 3-5-2 / 5-3-2? 

Have to say I am a little worried/nervous for this one. Could be defining and shape our run in.

Hoping to see a similar Newcastle at home last season performance, rather than the Newcastle at home this season. Spurs will try and bully us early to get a foothold, so we need to stand up to them.

Konsa, Lenglet and Pau all start for me, alongside Digne.  That’s probably our strongest back four right now. Would also love Ramsey to start to keep Porro occupied but not sure he will. 

Get McGinn into Maddison early and try and control the midfield. Watkins and Bailey masterclass fingers crossed. 

Would love a Villa win but would happily take a point. 

3 hours ago, MattVillaPortsmouth said:

Interesting post match interview, mentioned about needing ‘help’ multiple times and how could not recruit in Jan - I feel she stopped just shy of calling club out (can’t see where else she meant help from), normally is very much it’s on her, this felt a bit different.
 

I said at start club hasn’t progressed and supported her - shame really, would be interesting to see if the reasoning behind that or whether there are outside factors which caused it. Can only presume it’s budget wise (wages).

She called it right about the game, second half was better, still not much of a threat and Arsenal were wasteful/dropped down a gear - maybe should have used the ‘pride/passion’ talk before game not halftime. Plenty of games left, but as other have said we need some players back or we just are to thin on the ground.

Totally get it’s not all about winning, but you only grow the women’s game if it’s made competitive, it maybe the successes of the national team have made expectations too high that some teams in WSL are still catching up and money is being spent elsewhere - but it doesn’t mean people can’t call it out if it’s as bad as our first half last night. There is a buzz about the women’s game (rightly so), and after the positives of last season maybe ‘some ‘ (me included) expected more and a chance to ride the wave.

 

 

Haven’t seen the post match interview yet but hopefully later.  Very disappointing evening, especially that first half display.  Arsenal were clearly favourites and have the better side, but we should have been more competitive in that first half. The amount of standing off and lack of pressure on the opponent was shocking.  We seemed very frustrated and deflated quite early. Daly especially cut an isolated figure and was showing her anger at players for not pressing or losing the ball. I do worry if she’ll think about moving on in the summer? 

Clearly we’re lacking numbers due to injuries etc but I do think Carla Ward has to take some responsibility here. Surely we can set ourselves up to frustrate the opponent better? Her options are limited for sure but I would want to see much more from the players. We’ve had some better results since January but nowhere near the same level of quality from last season. 

It going to very interesting to see what the club wants to do in the summer. We probably need five or six coming in and no doubt we’ll see a similar amount leaving or not having new contracts/extended etc. I do hope the club continue to back Carla or whoever because the woman’s team is important to our growth. It’s enjoyable alongside the men’s team.  For now though, we’ll probably limp towards the end of the season with some decent results thrown in hopefully.  

3-0 embarrassing.  Just can’t defend correctly and basically standing off them. Game over.

Just now, WallisFrizz said:

Konsa? No way!

As I said, it wouldn’t be welcome but it would provide a large return.  Again, I hope we don’t have to sell a big ticket player.

Out of players listed above, Ramsey would be the one but I’m hoping it doesn’t happen.

Actually surprised Konsa doesn’t get a mention? Bought for a relatively small fee but potentially large return if sold.  Again, I wouldn’t welcome it though. 

1-4 Liverpool.  Really bad defending again.

........................Martinez.........................

Cash……….Konsa……..Lenglet.......Digne

................Luiz............McGinn...............

Diaby.............Tielemans..........Zaniolo

........................Watkins.........................

Hopefully get a foothold in the game and start to rest key players early in the second half. Give decent minutes to KKH, Chambers, Iroegbunam, Rogers and possibly Duran.

Coming in as a free, we could get a decent return out of him for FFP purposes if we did consider selling him this summer.  Market value must around 25-30m?

Phew!!!!!

Phew, thank **** for that! Good win, but should never have been that close. 

A Luca Digne header???

Shambolic second half. 

Could easily have scored four or five. Very good half.

Score another and then start to rest a few.

Hope Ramsey is ok.

9 yellows for Dougie now.

He’s on

Just listen to our fans! Amazing support.