Renee Slegers reacts to Tottenham – Arseblog News

Arsenal won 3-0 away at Spurs in the North London derby on Saturday lunchtime thanks to goals from Alessia Russo, Frida Maanum and Stina Blackstenius. Renee Slegers spoke to the press after the match, the first two questions are from Arseblog News.

Catley at centre-half allowing McCabe to become another striker…
Good place! I don’t want to talk too much about what we’re going to try to create, but we’re going to try to create numbers in different areas of the field. Steph did really well today and acknowledged it, but all our centre-backs would be good at it, we would ask the same of another centre-back, but Steph is doing really well at the moment.

Whether Tottenham played a five was a surprise today…
We saw their line-up against City with Bartip in midfield and we saw their line-up this afternoon and we expected them to stay at four and do what they did against City but they decided to play in a five. We have played against a lot of fives this year, so our players are very adaptable, so we adapted quickly. It says something about how hard it is to stop things we do, so it’s very positive.

If the players think less and play more one touch football…
You’ll have to ask the players, but I think so. The fastest football is played instinctively, but there still needs to be a foundation, the hardest part in coaching is finding the balance between foundation and structure and letting the freedom and creativity of the players escape. At the moment it seems to be right for the players, but you will have to ask the players.

If the players take more ownership…
We try to facilitate as much as we can to set them up in a good way, for example how much we ask them to attend meetings. Instead of us presenting, we ask them to activate their brains and see what they think, they often have really good ideas too. That’s an example.

About the players and the fans being happy and what it means to her…
Very positive, it means a lot to the players, the staff, the club and the fans. It’s the chicken or the egg question, where do the smiles come from? Behavior is also contagious, when one person starts smiling, others smile too. Where it started is hard to understand, there are so many factors to it, but I’m glad it seems to be happening.

If the players wanted to place last year’s defeat here…
It was for them, I think, I know the players have talked about it. We’re just trying to stay in the moment and keep our positive momentum, but yeah, definitely, for a few players it meant a little extra fire.

If she wants the job permanently…
The blocking has gone really well so far and we have another game ahead of us and we will do everything to get a good result and performance in the last game. Then we begin to breathe, but for the moment we remain in this focus because we have very hard work to do.

On the importance of an early goal…
Big events always give the game a direction. It doesn’t necessarily have to go in that direction, everything can still change, but Alessia scored the early goal and Daphne made that save early in the game, it helps us a lot. I am very satisfied with the start of the game.

On two goals conceded in the last six games…
Structurally we don’t do much different but we focus on areas we want to focus on and how we act in both boxes, that’s where games are won and lost and the players have taken to it brilliantly, it’s been a of our focus areas. I am very happy about that.

On how the mindset of the players has changed…
One of the words we use a lot in this block is ‘recklessness’, we want to be ruthless in both boxes. It’s easy to say, but putting it into action is much harder. The players are trying to put it into action, we’re trying to facilitate for them and emphasize a few things, but they’re actually doing it and I’m very happy that they’re getting success out of what they’re doing at the moment. We must maintain and develop this further, because new challenges will arise.

On how subs are affecting games recently…
We have such a great team that it is difficult to make decisions, how to start and how to finish the games, but the luxury we have is that we have scenario planning for that. Players really start the game, but players also finish the games really well. Our last few games we’ve been really decisive in the last 15-20 minutes and that’s when our game changers are on the pitch, I’m very happy with how the group is working at the moment.

On Kim Little coming out at halftime…
It wasn’t pre-planned, but we always go through scenarios. We were 2-0 up at half-time, we’ve played a lot of games, we’ve got one more game to go and we’ve got midfielders who deserve to play, so it was an in-game decision to change the six at half-time. time. Kyra is a really good footballer, she’s a fantastic player, I’m happy that she got to contribute and I’m happy that the other players are coming on as well. I want to highlight all the players in the squad, it’s not just about the players starting.

About having greater centrality in the goals today…
We want to find variety in how we attack and recognize better when we are broad, how many are they investing? Where are the spaces? Where are the new seats for us? We try to play with it and the players recognize that very well today.

Lately being ahead at the break…
I don’t know what the players are saying, but we talked the last few games at half-time that it’s good for us that we’re leading, but we can expect the opposition to come out and do something different because they’re not happy with, how the game goes. So we try to prepare them for the scenarios and I think the start of the second half we struggled a bit, that was probably our weakest phase of the game, so that’s something we’ll look at. Otherwise, it is something we do very well.

On the pass from Mariona to Blackstenius’ goal…
She is amazing constantly, the way she trains, the way she plays, she is a super intelligent soccer player. She has the technical ability and on top of that she works really hard, she is a fantastic player to have in the squad. The pass was great, I agree with you.

14. van Domselaar; 2.Fox, 6.Williamson, 7.Catley, 11.McCabe (3.Wubben-Moy ’84); 10.Little(c) (32.Cooney-Cross HT), 13.Walti; 19. Foord (9. Mead ’63), 12. L. Maanum, 8. Mariona (16. Kafaji ’78); 23.Russo (25.Blackstenius ’63)

Unused: 1.Zinsberger, 5.L.Codina, 17.Hurtig, 26.Wienroither.