Rianna Dean moves to Millwall Lionesses
Millwall have confirmed the signing of young centre-forward Rianna Dean, who left Arsenal’s Development Team in search of regular first-team football.
Millwall have confirmed the signing of young centre-forward Rianna Dean, who left Arsenal’s Development Team in search of regular first-team football.
The reserves aka the Development team aka the u20 team have seen a lot of changes since the end of the season.
Arsenal Ladies defeated FA Cup runners-up Birmingham City 4-2 to stay in fourth place as City and Chelsea also won their games, while league leaders Liverpool dropped two points at Bristol.
With no first team game this week due to the FA Womens’ Cup final, the focus was on the Development Team who are preparing for the Development League Cup final next Saturday.
Arsenal Ladies will be hoping that their 5-1 away win at WSL2 champions Yeovil will kickstart their season. Meanwhile there was disappointment for the Development Team as Chelsea Ladies won the League.
The FA WSL Spring Series started this weekend with no games for Manchester City, Chelsea or Arsenal who organised an open training sessions for fans.
Arsenal Ladies youth teams have reached their respective cup finals, unlike the first team, and those games will be played on the same day at England’s headquarters near Burton-upon-Trent.
Arsenal Ladies opened their 2017 season with a huge 10-0 win over Tottenham in the FA Women’s Cup Round 5.
The Arsenal Ladies Development Team have reached the FA WSL Development League Cup final for the second season in a row and the third time in the Cup’s four years existence.
The Development Team won 9-0 away at Oxford and topped off a good day by rushing back on the M40/M25 to take part in the Kelly Smith celebration game.
The Development Team defeated unbeaten League leaders Brighton, but it was not a one way traffic as the scoreline suggests and improvement is needed in certain areas.
The Development team has been draw at home to Sunderland’s Development team in the Cup.
Arsenal Ladies played their second pre-season friendly in Portugal and lost to Wolfsburg, while the Development team defeated Reading in the FA WSL Development League cup quarter-finals.
The Development team beat Bristol by five goals to one in what was a postponed game from December and are quickly climbing up the table.
Last year’s huge first team squad size meant the development team was short in players and the same thing is happening again.
Arsenal Ladies’ reserves won their second game of the season, 4-0 away to Yeovil, and have moved up four places in the Development League.
Arsenal Ladies reserves won their opening home game by four goals to nil and will be soon climbing up the table after reducing the gap to 14 points on League leaders Brighton.
After two months with one win and one defeat, the Arsenal Ladies finally got a win to kickstart their season with a 5-3 result away to Brighton in the Dev League Cup.
The Arsenal Ladies Development team season is played from September to May and they have played the grand total of zero games.
The FA has finally uploaded the players’ list on their website, so we now have a good idea of the players registered to play for the Arsenal reserves this season.