Lauren Hemp desires to “right the wrongs” of final season’s Girls’s Tremendous League title collapse after Manchester Metropolis have been pitted towards Arsenal on the opening day of the brand new season.
Final season’s runners-up will journey to the Emirates Stadium to tackle the Gunners for the opening match of the league season on September 22, stay on Sky Sports activities.
Metropolis’s defeat to Arsenal in Could was the match that swung the WSL title again into Chelsea’s favour, because the Blues retained a fifth successive league title and a last one for Emma Hayes.
Hemp stated dropping the title so late “still hurts” however spoke concerning the significance of a win to begin the brand new marketing campaign.
Reacting to Metropolis’s opening match with Arsenal, Hemp informed Sky Sports activities Information: “So excited. Clearly being on the Emirates on the primary recreation of the season, hopefully we will kick off with an excellent recreation.
“We have now bought the entire of preparation in pre-season to get ourselves in good stead for that recreation. I am wanting ahead to it, what a solution to begin.
“Clearly we have been very disillusioned [last season]. It nonetheless hurts wanting again and occupied with it. We have a brand new season coming as much as hopefully proper these wrongs.
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Chelsea lifted the Girls’s Tremendous League trophy and handy Emma Hayes the dream farewell
“This season we have so many trophies up for grabs, it gives us a lot more experience and hunger to achieve big things this season. I believe in the squad we’ve got that we can go on and do that.
“It will be good to get a win and it’ll put us in a great place going into the remainder of the video games within the window. It is vital to hit the bottom working, to get off to a great begin.
“With the experience of playing Chelsea last season in the first couple of games, we know what it’s like and we know what Arsenal are going to bring. Hopefully we will be able to counter that.”
Hemp desires to avenge final season’s WSL title race loss
Hemp: I appeared as much as Miedema, we’d like her!
Manchester Metropolis have made two summer time additions to their squad forward of the brand new marketing campaign – West Ham’s Risa Shimizu was the second acquisition behind the high-profile free seize of Vivianne Miedema.
The Dutch striker, previously of Arsenal, is the all-time file goalscorer in WSL historical past with 78 targets and can be part of final season’s Golden Boot winner Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw in a scintillating Metropolis line-up.
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Arsenal legend and WSL all-time high goalscorer Vivianne Miedema has joined runners-up Manchester Metropolis on a three-year deal
“We’ve got some fantastic talent. We’ve recently signed Viv which is a great signing for us,” Hemp stated.
“She’s done many good things for Arsenal and we’re hoping she’ll do the same for City. We’ve got so much talent in this squad, and we came so close last season, we’re hopefully going to put that right. It all starts with the opening weekend.
“She’s a implausible participant, so many strengths and hardly any weaknesses. She’s a pure goalscorer and we’d like that.
“We have Bunny Shaw who does that, so having Viv alongside her as well will be fantastic. We’ve know for many years what she’s brought to the WSL and I’ve looked up to her so much growing up. It will be great to share the pitch with her.”
Watch Arsenal vs Man Metropolis on the opening weekend of the brand new Girls’s Tremendous League season on Sunday September 22, kick-off 12.30pm
