Arsenal Women Archives: 08/2022

Arsenal Women are 13 days away from starting the 2022/23 season and the summer transfer window has been really quiet on the signings side.

Arsenal are entering the Women’s Champions League in qualifying Round 2 and we know now who will be our potential opponents.

Arsenal and England winger Beth Mead was voted second by the UEFA panel for the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year, behind Spain and Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas and ahead of Wolfsburg and Germany’s Lena Oberdorf.

Matthew, Paul and Sylvain talk about the win against Leicester City and what it tells us about the tactics and balance of the side going forward, laugh at the basket case that is Manchester United and wonder what Chelsea vs Spurs tells us about VAR.

There isn’t that much going on as we wait for Mikel Arteta’s pre-Bournemouth press conference, but here’s a roundup of what’s making the headlines today.

France Football have published their annual Ballon d’Or list and there are the usual controversies over players that have been left out, such as the Lionesses’ Keira Walsh.

Manchester United have signed Nikita Parris after just one season at Arsenal and the forward is looking forward to the ‘biggest years’ of her career.

It will come as no surprise that women’s football ticket sales are on the up following the Lionesses Euro 2022 triumph and Arsenal season tickets have sold out.

As England celebrate winning their first major trophy in the women’s game, and the first in football for the nation in either since 1966, it’s worth taking a minute to remember how they got here.