Arsenal boss Renee Slegers says the “subsequent step for ladies’s soccer” is to have higher pitches after Gunners legend Ian Wright described Actual Madrid’s taking part in floor as a “shame”.
Wright made his emotions identified throughout Arsenal’s 2-0 Girls’s Champions League quarter-final first-leg defeat on the Estadio Alfredo di Stefano.
Taking part in situations on the dwelling of Actual Madrid males’s reserves deteriorated at a fast price, making free-flowing soccer troublesome for each side.
Wright’s criticism on social media got here after complaints from Chelsea gamers and pundits concerning the pitch for the Girls’s League Cup ultimate at Derby County’s Satisfaction Park final Saturday.
Former Netherlands midfielder Slegers admitted the moist and muddy situations towards Actual Madrid performed their half in her aspect’s defeat on Tuesday.
The return leg shall be performed at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium on 26 March.
Requested whether or not Actual Madrid’s essential Bernabeu stadium ought to have been used for the primary leg, Slegers added: “It is not on me to criticise.
“It is clearly a membership determination and I am positive that Uefa is attempting to create the perfect situations for the event. After all, the climate isn’t all the time in our management.
“However I feel we have seen a few video games these days the place the pitch situations have not been nice and I feel that is the following step for ladies’s soccer to take.”
Slegers, who was appointed everlasting Arsenal head coach in January after a formidable interim spell, added: “We knew the situation of the pitch. We spoke about it with the gamers earlier than the sport.
“So we had a plan for it, however then it is all the time onerous as a result of over a season and over time you’re employed on issues and you’ve got an id, the best way you need to do issues.
“So then actuality comes and these situations come and rapidly you could do issues in a different way in order that’s onerous.”
