The Development team has been draw at home to Sunderland’s Development team in the Cup.

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The Sunderland squad lists two players with first team experience as well as regular England youth call-ups, Danielle Brown and Abbey Joyce, and also Poppy Pattinson from the England u17 squad.

Two seasons ago, the Development team was hammered 3-0 by the same Sunderland team in an away semi-final. There are two players in each camp who played in that game and you would expect the Arsenal girls to get their revenge.

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The game will be played at the Development team’s home ground at Herts University on 12 March at 2pm. While the other semi-final will be played at Stoke Gifford’s Stadium between Bristol City and Liverpool.

It is expected that a good number of Development team players will be coming back from the La Manga trip with England u19/u23s as many friendlies will be played over there during the international break:

  • 02/03 Sweden u23 v England u23
  • 03/03 France u19 v England u19
  • 04/03 England u23 v USA u23
  • 05/03 Netherland u19 v England u19
  • 07/03 England u19 v Italy u19

Hopefully, there will be no injuries during the international break prior to the game as the squad is quite thin.