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by Andrew Crawshaw The matches within the four groups that form the last 16 of the Women’s Champions League commence this week The clubs involved are:- Group A Group B Group C Group D Chelsea Breidablik Kopavogur Arsenal Bayern Munich Juventus PSG FC Barselona BK Häcken FF Servette FC Chēnois Real Madrid HB Køge Olympic …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Wednesday evening’s 5-1 victory over Tottenham brought a close to a really good September for Arsenal Women. Please note that the embedded links are to the FA Player highlights, you will need to log in or create an account to view the footage. WSL Arsenal v Chelsea 5 September We started our …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The FA had a problem with last season’s Women’s FA Cup. The pandemic caused a cessation of all non-elite level sport at a time when the early rounds featuring non-elite teams would have been taking part. Like the men’s FA Cup the competition is open to all clubs affiliated to the FA …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Match report of the first leg Borehamwood Tuesday 31 August It was nice going to watch a game live again (I was poorly on the day of the Men’s season opener and so this was my first live game). The journey was rather reassuring, Park the car at Penge East, £1 for …
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by Andrew Crawshaw First the Context: Chelsea have been the WSL champions most years recently. They have the deepest squad and, in Emma Hayes, one of the most determined managers in any branch of the game. To say she dislikes losing is an understatement. Manchester City are the only other team, apart from ourselves to …
by Andrew Crawshaw On Tuesday Evening Arsenal Women kick off their second round match in the UEFA Women’s Champions League. The tie is being played home and away, the first leg at Borehamwood with a 19:30 kick off, the second leg is in Prague on Thursday of next week 9 September with an earlier kickoff …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Last Friday and Saturday the teams remaining in the Round 1 knockout phases of the Champions and League pathways played their final games, and on Sunday the draw for the second round was made. At this point the 12 teams from round one were joined by a further 12 with direct access …
Read More “Women’s Champions League – report and videos against PSV and 2nd round draw”
by Andrew Crawshaw The match kicks off at 15:00 Saturday and will be streamed live by arsenal.com – at least it will if they have sorted out the technical difficulties that beset the coverage of the game against Okzhptes on Wednesday. As our European coefficient (27.7) is higher than that of PSV Eindhoven (12.0) we …
Read More “Arsenal v PSV Eindhoven – Uefa Women’s Champions League Preview”
By Andrew Crawshaw I was intending to do a scouting report on PSV Eindhoven, our opponents on Saturday, but the stream of their match wasn’t licensed to be shown in the UK (or that was the message I repeatedly got). What I thought I would do instead is clear up some questions I had regarding …
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by Andrew Crawshaw I nearly got the team right. Wälti was out following a minor knock and Nikita Parris made her debut playing on the left of a front three and fellow debutant Iwabuchi dropping into midfield. Starts for all four of our new arrivals and, as predicted, seats on the bench for our Australian …
Read More “Arsenal V Okzetpes – The match report, a thumping Four Nil win to the Arsenal”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women commence their Champions League campaign against Okzetpes on Wednesday morning in Moscow. Our opponents qualified by coming third in the Kazakhstani league. The Official UEFA website has the following Players listed:- Arsenal Goalkeepers – 1 Zinsberger (Austria), 18 Williams (Australia), 24 Stenson (England) and at 28 17 year old Cull …
Postscript to my update piece from earlier today. The venue for the Champions League round 1 mini by Andrew Crawshaw With the Women’s Team still firmly in close season you might be forgiven for thinking that not much is happening but there is quite a lot bubbling away under the surface. Firstly here is a …
by Andrew Crawshaw Who? I hear you ask in the traditional supporters greeting to an unknown substitute for the opposition. Jonas is the new Arsenal Women Head Coach and joins us from Swedish team FC Rosengård. A Swede, his English is excellent (judging from the interviews released this morning on arsenal.com). He is 38 years …
by Andrew Crawshaw Down the years as an Arsenal supporters we have been granted the privilege of being able to watch a number of truly great players at their very best. Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Denis Bergkamp, Tony Adams, Mesut Özil (once upon a time) are some who spring to my mind and I’m sure …
by Andrew Crawshaw Week 4 saw the following games Tottenham H v Manchester United Chelsea v Manchester City Reading v Birmingham City Bristol City v Aston Villa Everton v West Ham United Brighton and Hove v Arsenal The Saturday game saw Tottenham take on Manchester United, who if they won would go to the top …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The six matches for this last weekend were Aston Villa v Everton Manchester United v Brighton Manchester City v Spurs Arsenal v Bristol City Birmingham v Chelsea West Ham v Reading Aston Villa (0) v Everton (6) was played on Saturday. Villa were promoted at the start of the season, Everton have …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As Tony pointed out in his article yesterday the much-delayed Women’s FA Cup resumes today with the four Quarter Final matches. Arsenal v Spurs – Saturday 17:15 Everton v Chelsea – Sunday 13:00 Brighton v Birmingham – Sunday 14:00 Leicester v Man City – Sunday 14:00 Here is a reminder of our …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The first two quarter finals were played yesterday evening and went pretty much as I expected. Glasgow City were overwhelmed by Wolfsburg losing by 9 – 1 and Athletico lost a very tight match against Barcelona 1 – 0. Athletico arrived with a very truncated squad having had 6 players test positive …
Read More “UEFA Womens Champions League Arsenal v PSG – Match Preview”
by Andrew Crawshaw As usual at the end of last season there was a significant turnover of players from the squad. Most Women’s contracts seem to run for two years and clubs rarely pay transfer fees so to see a number of players leave is nothing unusual. There were eight players who left at the …
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look A second article following on from this is now published – see link at end of this piece. by Andrew Crawshaw. You will be aware that Untold has held strong views about the PGMO, how they keep appointing the …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The quote in the title was from a Chelsea supporter to me in the Gents after the game and he wasn’t wrong. The trophy went to Chelsea following a 2 – 1 win in a game which saw Arsenal batter Chelsea for 80 minutes. The match as you would expect was …
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Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Andrew Crawshaw In my last article I looked at how some match officials have the opportunity to have an adverse effect on a team’s points score in the season to date. Some comments quite rightly pointed out …
Read More “The VAR referees: who are they, and is there a chance of bias?”
by Andrew Crawshaw The PGMO have 17 referees on its list of Select Group (i.e those fully accredited to take charge of Premier League matches). In addition, so far this season, four referees from the Select Group 2 have each taken charge of a single game. This group comprises those referees accredited up to Championship …
by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly a fond adieu to Lee Probert who has announced that he is retiring as a football referee after some 20 years and with 181 PL matches to his name. He has been struggling with a long term back injury and has decided that this is the right time to do something …
by Andrew Crawshaw This is a quick preview before I set off for Borehamwood to watch the game For those of you who don’t keep up with our Women’s team, we won the away leg on 12 September by four goals to nil. Here is a link to the match report on the official arsenal …
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