Arsenal supervisor Jonas Eidevall is properly conscious of the threats that West Ham pose to his aspect when the 2 golf equipment meet within the WSL on Sunday, highlighting tempo and aerial skill as specific sources of hazard to his table-topping aspect.
West Ham have began the season properly, profitable three of their opening 5 video games and sitting in a cluster of golf equipment simply three factors beneath joint early leaders Arsenal and Manchester United.
The Hammers have truly misplaced all seven earlier WSL video games they’ve performed in opposition to the Gunners, which is their worst document in opposition to any aspect within the division. But they’ve gained their final two in a row in opposition to Aston Villa and Reading having improved once more over the summer season.
Arsenal are aiming to set a WSL document for consecutive wins – they equalled it final outing in opposition to Liverpool with their twelfth successive league win. But they gained’t have a simple experience in opposition to a Hammers staff that gave Chelsea a run for their cash solely final month.
“I think it’s pretty clear when you see West Ham play, that they’re a strong team on the counter attack,” Eidevall stated, through Arsenal.com.
“I think that they have some really good individual players up front who can do a few different things with Viviane Asseyi. She’s pacy, she’s very good at taking on players one-v-one.
“Dagny Brynjarsdottir is one of the better players in the air in the whole division and she’s very threatening coming in with runs from behind. So we really have to be aware of that pace and the threats that they pose. So that’s what we need to try and nullify.”
Brynjarsdottir particularly has scored three WSL objectives this season, which is greater than Vivianne Miedema and the identical quantity as Beth Mead.
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