Juventus Ladies v Arsenal Preview – Arseblog Information

THE LOWDOWN
Arsenal play away at Juventus of their third Champions League group recreation on Tuesday night. It appears like a pivotal tie for the group on condition that each groups have, thus far, crushed Valerenga and misplaced to Bayern Munich. Arsenal and Juve will play a double header over the following 9 days and it’s fairly seemingly that Bayern will choose up six factors in opposition to Valerenga in that point.

The Gunners opened the group stage with a disappointing 5-2 loss in Munich however obtained again on monitor with a 4-1 win over the Norwegian facet on match day two on the Emirates. A pair of video games in opposition to Juve adopted by a house recreation in opposition to Bayern feels just like the trifecta of matches the place Arsenal’s destiny within the group will really be determined.

Arsenal obtained not have requested for a greater preparation with a snug 5-0 win over Brighton on Friday night that noticed them 3-0 up inside half an hour. It allowed them to deal with 66% of the sport as a coaching train and gave them some priceless further relaxation forward of the journey to Biella in Italy.

Arsenal are but to lose since Renee Slegers took non permanent cost of the workforce, with three wins and a attract that point. However Juve will undoubtedly be their stiffest check but beneath the Dutch interim coach and defeat would go away them with no room for error within the the rest of the group stage.

TEAM NEWS

Mariona is match and obtainable after resting a small muscle damage for the sport in opposition to Brighton on Friday. Victoria Pelova (knee) and Amanda Ilestedt (maternity depart) are the one different absentees, Laura Wienroither has travelled with the squad after a knee damage.

Accessible squad
Goalkeepers: 1.Zinsberger 14.van Domselaar 40.Williams
Defenders: 2.Fox 3.Wubben-Moy 5.L.Codina 6.Williamson 7.Catley 11.McCabe 26.Wienroither 62.Reid
Midfielders: 10.Little 12.L.Maanum 13.Walti 16.Kafaji 22.Kuhl 32.Cooney-Cross
Forwards: 9.Mead 17.Hurtig 19.Foord 23.Russo 25.Blackstenius 53.Liaison 56.Godfrey

A WORD FROM THE BOSS
‘Will probably be a unique kind of soccer to what we normally play in opposition to within the WSL. We predict them to make it actually onerous for us with the way in which they defend. It’s from a WSL perspective it’s unorthodox, they’re a bit of extra participant for participant in the way in which they play. That may be a new problem for us and we work onerous to attempt to exploit this defending system they play.

‘They’ve quite a lot of qualities, we don’t know their beginning eleven but however there are quite a lot of qualities of their workforce in all of the items. It’s a robust opposition, good at counter attacking so we have now to attempt to discover the correct steadiness of understanding when to go forwards quick and when to sluggish it down.

‘It will be an enormous problem for us however the gamers are on board with this and I believe they’ve a good suggestion of what their recreation will seem like, we attempt to handle them the most effective we are able to. We go there to play our greatest soccer and we have now huge perception in what we are able to do. We are going to see how the sport progresses and the selections we have now to make however we go there to win.’

LAST TIME OUT
The groups met within the group phases two seasons in the past and, at Juventus’ Allianz Enviornment, Arsenal had been held to a 1-1 draw. Lineth Beerensteyn gave Juve the lead along with her worldwide colleague Vivianne Miedema equalising.

THE OPPOSITION
Fashioned forward of the 2017-18 season, Juve instantly went on to dominate Italian ladies’s soccer, profitable the league title in every of their first 5 seasons of existence. In 2021-22, former Gunners boss Joe Montemurro took the membership over and led them to the home treble in addition to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Since 2022, nonetheless, they’ve yielded their home dominance to AS Roma, who’ve gained the final two league titles, with Juve enjoying second fiddle domestically for the primary time. Montemurro left final season amid a fallout with Sporting Director Stefano Braghini, whose contract was prolonged the day Montemurro left.

Boasting Italian nationwide workforce mainstays reminiscent of Sara Gama, Barbara Bonansea and Christian Girelli, Juve even have a very good mix of imported expertise like Hanna Bennison, Viola Calligaris and former Arsenal goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin. Juve are a powerful counter attacking workforce and haven’t conceded of their final 4 matches.

PLAYER TO WATCH

Arsenal most likely nonetheless haven’t fairly labored out how one can maximise the expertise of Mariona Caldentey but, even when she has performed effectively since becoming a member of the membership from Barcelona. Her pre-assist for Russo’s purpose in opposition to Manchester United gave a glimpse of her artistic qualities however the truth that she has been deployed variously on the correct, the left and as a quantity 10 illustrates that Arsenal haven’t completely labored out how finest to utilise het but.

With Mariona rested as a result of a muscle niggle on Friday, Arsenal went again to their outdated slippers with Mead, Foord and Maanum forming the trio behind Alessia Russo and it coincided with their finest attacking show of the season. Nevertheless, my very own view is that Brighton had been so poor that, had she began, Mariona would have comfortably come out of the sport with no less than one direct purpose contribution.

Nonetheless the query stays as to the place she traces up in opposition to Juve, if certainly Slegers does determine to place her straight again within the line-up. Mariona has quite a lot of expertise of profitable this competitors, not to mention enjoying in it and her expertise might be helpful in that respect. It should simply be attention-grabbing to see the place Slegers decides to area her.

PREDICTED LINE-UP

Subs: 3.Wubben-Moy 5.L.Codina 12.L.Maanum 14.van Domselaar 16.Kafaji 17.Hurtig 22.Kuhl 25.Blackstenius 26.Wienroither 32.Cooney-Cross 40.Williams

HOW TO CATCH THE GAME
The match takes place on the Vittorio Pozzo Stadium in Biella and kicks off at 5.45pm UK time. The match might be proven reside and freed from cost on DAZN’s web site (no subscription is required).

COMING UP
We’re out in Biella and can have each phrase from Renee Slegers’ post-match press convention on the location shortly after full-time and we should always have the ability to discuss to a participant too. We will even have Aidan Gibson’s on the whistle match report shortly after full-time.