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Key occasions
GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Leuven (Frida Maanum)
22 min: Leuven misplaced the ball and a sluggish construct sees Foord feed Maanum and faucet dwelling.
21 min: Arsenal are creating increasingly possibilities as McCabe will get it into the world, Leuven clear and begin to make a break however Fox takes down Reynders and receives a yellow card.
19 min: Leuven breaks and the gang involves life, Conijnenberg is fed however her shot is approach over the ball. These are the threats Arsenal must be cautious of. The Gunners instantly hit again however Foord’s shot is saved.
17 min: Arsenal sustain the strain and Fox does rather well to ship it into the field nevertheless it’s cleared.
16 min: Arsenal win a free kick with McCabe blocked on the best way by means of to the ultimate third. Kelly stands over the set piece and the supply is straight on the keeper.
14 min: Pelova floats a improbable ball to Foord however her go has an excessive amount of on it and Seynhaeve collects. Possession as soon as once more exchanges arms.
12 min: The Gunners get into the field however Leuven expertly smother the assault, forcing them again to the midway line.
11 min: Arsenal win it again and are affected person with their play. The Belgians are compact and are defending nicely so the guests are discovering it a bit troublesome to puncture.
9 min: Possession goes forwards and backwards however Leuven peel ahead, Janssen appears to cross in however Williamson sees it out.
7 min: Some might underestimate Leuven however they’re prime of the Belgian league and so they’re in good kind. To date they’re simply struggling to take care of possession and put in a significant assault.
6 min: Simon Yates has bought in contact to settle the Jaffa Cake debate:
Amazingly this query was settled by a tax courtroom because it was related to VAT. The reply is Jaffa Desserts are muffins, the reasoning being that muffins go dry whenever you hold them too lengthy whereas biscuits go soggy. (I’m not making this up.) Although personally I’ve by no means actually had an issue with Jaffa Desserts surviving lengthy sufficient to go off, a method or one other…
Thanks for this Simon, it’s worthwhile info to should show to my pal that I’m the truth is proper. Again on the pitch and Leuven are but to place a stamp on this recreation.
4 min: The hosts have been pressured into defence early on with an opportunity coming into the field nevertheless it was nicely cleared. The Gunners come once more however Mannum’s shot is saved.
2 min: It’s Leah Williamson’s third begin of the season as she continues to construct again from her knee damage she sustained in the summertime on the Euros. Each groups settling into this one.
Kick-off: Leuven 0-0 Arsenal
Right here we go.
I’d love to listen to from you. I used to be discussing with a pal the opposite day if a Jaffa Cake is a cake or a biscuit, I’m firmly on the cake facet and she or he was adamant it was a biscuit. Please get in contact so we are able to settle the argument, you may electronic mail me to let me know your ideas.
Atone for our Ladies’s Soccer Weekly podcast whilst you anticipate this match to get underway:
Suzanne Wrack spoke to Katie McCabe final month and it’s a terrific interview, have a learn to get extra of an perception into the Arsenal star:
Whoever comes out on prime over the following two legs between these two will play Chelsea. The Blues have reached the semi-finals previously three seasons however have by no means received the trophy.
Arsenal travelled to Leuven in December when the 2 golf equipment performed each other within the group stage. The Gunners got here out 3-0 winners that day, you may recap the motion right here:
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Right here is Arsenal boss Renée Slegers on why Stina Blackstenius and Beth Mead should not concerned: “Stina and Beth didn’t journey. Stina nonetheless has points together with her calf and Beth wants a while to dump her shin.”
Right here is that Leuven staff information, the facet couldn’t play Veefkind as she is suspended.
Leuven: Seynhaeve, Everaerts, Biesmans, Mertens, Janssen, Pusztai, Hermans, Kujpers, Reynders, Conijnenberg, Bosteels.
Bench: Lammertijn, Rispens, Nagy, Papatheodorou, Van Besauw, De Ceuster, Heremans, Neyrinck, Dekker, Van Holderbeke
The staff information is in. Arsenal are with out Beth Mead and Stina Blackstenius, extra on that shortly, and regardless of being just a few attacking gamers down Alessia Russo begins from the bench.
Arsenal: Van Domselaar, Fox, Williamson, Codina, McCabe, Pelova, Caldentey, Maanum, Kelly, Foord, Smith
Bench: Votikova, Williams, Wubben-Moy, Catley, Holmberg, Cooney-Cross, Little, Russo.
I’m simply monitoring down the Leuven information, naked with me.
Preamble
Whats up and welcome to the Ladies’s Champions League play-off recreation between Leuven and Arsenal. That is the primary leg of the play-off with the second being hosted by Arsenal subsequent week.
The play-offs are new to the ladies’s competitors this yr and it comes after the teams have been scrapped in favour of the league. The highest 4 robotically certified for the quarter-finals, whereas the opposite spots might be determined by these play-offs.
Arsenal are the defending champions and so it will likely be a troublesome job for Leuven to come back out on prime however right this moment’s match is the right time to place some mild between them and the Gunners. If they arrive off the losers on this encounter, overturning that in London might be a mountain to climb.
The staff information might be up shortly earlier than kick-off at 5.45pm GMT. So keep tuned for the entire updates and a few build-up to this recreation which ought to be a cracker.