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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 10h

in previous seasons you've spoken about potentially wanting to see a back 3, and my mind does come back to how good russo was in sarina's 'emergency' wwc'23 formation.. so as a (most likely hypothetical) thought exercise, how do you imagine it would look if we opted to match chelsea's recent shape?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 10h

russo + stina from the start has had mixed success, but after a strong showing in this game do you believe this the set up that would give chelsea's backline a greater challenge? or do you think it leaves us too short in firepower off the bench?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 1d

chelsea aren't leicester, but especially if frida's recovering from a knock, i do feel we're more threatening with a stina-russo pairing than just russo on her own up top - especially if sonia keeps playing that back 3

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 1d

biggest point of interest for me though is that even in this context pelova can't get a start and we've effectively sacrificed the stina super-sub to keep her on the bench 👀

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 1d

trying to be calm about this - we should still have more than enough to overcome leicester, and no need to take risks with players carrying knocks or unwell if resting them improves chances of availability next week for the big one

Arseblog News @arseblog.news · 1d

Hinds, Blackstenius and Codina start for Arsenal against Leicester

Renee Slegers is starting with Taylor Hinds at right-back, Stina Blackstenius upfront and Laia Codina at centre-half for the visit to Leicester in the WSL this lunchtime. Emily Fox is rested to the bench after playing for the US on Wednesday night, Wubben-Moy, Maanum, Cooney-Cross and Smith are out. Daphne van Domselaar starts in goal […] The post Hinds, Blackstenius and Codina start for Arsenal against Leicester appeared first on Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site.

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 3d

has repeatedly reiterated how much she tries to isolate the team from outside noise, surely it is breaking through the wall and becoming at least slightly distracting that there's so much noise in the fanbase and media about the players who aren't getting many minutes 🤷‍♀️

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 3d

renee having a preference for working with a smaller core group or just not rating a sizeable portion of the current squad - but either way i simply don't see how you bring in new faces to address any of the issues without moving other players on. because as much as she's a very offline person and

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 3d

strong agree with so many of the As in here - for me the january window has to focus on outgoings even more so than incomings, unless the staff have reflected over this international break and intend to make more use of the fairly large squad awfc currently have. i can't quite tell if it's a case of

Arseblog News @arseblog.news · 5d

Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 140: October Mailbag

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, the number one podcast about Arsenal Women. In this mailbag episode, Tim and Jamie take your questions from Bluesky on squad rotation and how it ought to be handled in the next block of games, what needs to happen in the January transfer window, […] The post Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 140: October Mailbag appeared first on Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site.

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 5d

like surely we can't be planning to start a world cup in two years with bronze-greenwood as the fullback pairing, so this is absolutely the time to be looking into what the alternative options out there are

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 5d

and crucially, the minutes she is getting are in a posession heavy team and now she's in a superior training environment surrounded by stronger talent than her previous club situation. so with the lack of 'natural' options for sarina there right now i definitely see the vision

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 5d

my potential hot take is it makes total (more than ever) sense for hinds to be in the picture for the lionesses rn, even if she's not arsenal's regular starting LB. because tbh, even with a big reduction in competitive minutes she's still coming off the bench regularly w/ the occasional start -

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 12d

meus brasileiros 👑🇧🇷🥰

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 16d

really do believe arteta is a master at extracting absolute commitment from his players and turning the squad into a complete unit who will fight for each other to the end - so glad we can genuinely that this year with #5 finally gone from the club

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 21d

a recent uptick in kcc minutes has coincided with a drop off in pelova's, and now we're back in a space of every game this season being must-win to stay in the running for silverware which may further limit chances for both to play together - do you still believe they are the future of our midfield?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 21d

no need to dispute the fact that alessia russo is v good at football, and yet she regularly doesn't seem to get anywhere near the volume of clear chances in a game as stina does (even playing 2-3 times her minutes) - so any ideas on how we can create more attacking threat with russo in the 9?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 25d

this may well age badly, but i'm truly looking forward to the brighton game on sunday. i felt like we just needed to get through the OL game with a scoreline that was respectable and not catastrophic for team morale, and now can hit a bit of a reset button and push on to restore some +ve momentum

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · 29d

in an effort to interrupt some of the doomspiralling, renee's postmatch comments (especially compared to last week) suggested she wasn't too downbeat on performances - did you pick out any positives which you'd like to see the team build on to close out this block of games?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 29

2 games against top opposition within 4 days opens up a clear opportunity(/need) for renee to switch things up without necessarily being perceived as a message that recent team/sub selections have been flawed. Having dropped points in the wsl, is it now the OL fixture where more risks can be taken?

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 29

given her strong defensive stats (interceptions, recoveries etc), press resistance and increasing reluctance to take shots - if we were to go more 4-3-3 than 4-2-3-1 in order to play pelova/kcc in more natural roles, is there any reason not to rely on kim little as the deepest midfielder/'lone' 6?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 29

great stuff - suspect this will have preempted many people's first Q's for the pod this week! fascinating timing for this to be spotlighted as an 'issue' right before the back-to-back city & OL fixtures which probs force renée's hand into making a few tweaks regardless of saturday's performance

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 27

reid and catley also v good again, but so obviously apparent how much this team misses leah's long balls when building attacks - especially when dvd looks to be carrying something which is hampering her distribution

ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 27

frustrating one - especially because the area that will get inevitably face the most scrutiny is actually where I thought our starters were very good today (kim + mario), just unable to capitalise on the technical superiority so ended up drawn into a slugfest which suited villa more 😮‍💨

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 22

there's been a lot of squad turnover over the last 3-4 seasons at man utd, and yet arsenal have consistently struggled with the (a) fixtures at LSV - have you observed any trends across the games, or is this really a fixture to be analysed in isolation?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 13

naturally i've seen anxieties about goals conceded but after 2 wsl games every attacker (+frida) has 1+ G/A to their name - so how encouraged are you by this high scoring start to the season, and have you seen enough variety in the goals to have confidence they won't dry up as the season progresses?

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ndmw.bsky.social @ndmw.bsky.social · Sep 7

thoughts on the set pieces - may just be poor memory on my part, but don't recall mariona taking so many last season, especially with CK on the pitch, and we didn't seem to create much threat from them yesterday. is this something you picked up on at all during the preseason friendlies?

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