Renee Slegers describes Arsenal’s newest UEFA Girls’s Champions League (UWCL) scheduling conflict with the boys’s crew as a “bump within the street” for the membership’s wider ladies’s soccer technique.
The Gunners got here beneath hearth this week for revealing they’d been pressured to maneuver their UWCL match in opposition to Bayern Munich on 18 December away from the Emirates, in favour of the boys’s crew who’re up in opposition to Crystal Palace within the Carabao Cup quarter-final.
Interim head coach Renee Slegers has since spoken out in regards to the diary conflict, claiming it is a “arduous dilemma for the membership”. She defined: “It is a small bump within the street, what Arsenal have accomplished for girls’s soccer over time may be very robust.”
We’re liaising with UEFA and additional particulars concerning our UWCL match in opposition to Bayern Munich will likely be introduced sooner or later.
That is following the scheduling of the Carabao Cup quarter-final on December 18 at Emirates Stadium. pic.twitter.com/4Ulu7DS69w
— Arsenal Girls (@ArsenalWFC) November 6, 2024
90min understands that Arsenal are in ongoing with talks with UEFA to discover a appropriate location for the match. Nevertheless, uncertainty stays rife as Meadow Park, Arsenal’s earlier house venue and the apparent different doesn’t presently meet UEFA laws.
The north-London membership are understandably beneath much more scrutiny for the choice, after making a transparent level forward of the 2024/25 Barclays Girls’s Tremendous League marketing campaign that the Emirates Stadium would change into the brand new foremost house for his or her ladies’s crew. On the time, they introduced the stadium would host at the least eight WSL video games and at the least three Champions League fixtures.
Arsenal are sitting second of their group, after dropping 5-2 to Bayern Munich in Germany however beating Valerenga 4-1 final month at house. They are going to be on the lookout for an important subsequent victory over Juventus on the Emirates on 21 December, after accruing the identical variety of factors because the Italian aspect to this point.
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