Eleven video games. Eleven begins. Ten targets.
Alessia Russo is reaping the rewards of arduous work below Arsenal interim boss Renee Slegers and her fantastic type continued within the Gunners’ closing recreation earlier than the winter break.
The 25-year-old scored Arsenal’s second purpose in Wednesday’s 3-2 comeback win in opposition to Bayern Munich that sealed high spot of their Ladies’s Champions League group.
It took Russo’s tally to 11 targets for the season, 10 of which have been scored below Slegers, with six coming in her final 4 video games.
“I am my very own greatest critic and I do know at occasions I’ve undoubtedly not scored as a lot as I need to,” Russo advised DAZN after the sport.
“As strikers you all the time have moments and spells. It is about driving the wave and when issues aren’t good it is stripping it again, specializing in coaching and that is what I’ve performed.”
England worldwide Russo has began each recreation below Slegers after Jonas Eidevall resigned as head coach in October.
Below the Swede, Russo began seven of 9 video games initially of the marketing campaign, scoring simply as soon as.
“I am simply having fun with my soccer,” Russo stated. “We’re taking part in very nice soccer and we’re choosing up actually vital outcomes. We’re actually having fun with ourselves and discovering so many alternative connections on the pitch and infrequently grinding out leads to completely different sorts of the way.
“We have been engaged on plenty of various things, however within the closing third how we will discover completely different connections, how we will create various kinds of assaults. It begins in coaching and we now have been fortunate sufficient to search out it in matches too.
“It has been nice and us as gamers need extra, we need to take accountability and that is what we’re doing.”
Arsenal and Russo head into the winter break stuffed with confidence, eagerly awaiting the Champions League quarter-final draw on 7 February.
“We’re all feeling actually optimistic as a bunch,” Russo stated. “We have now simply been working actually arduous. I do know it sounds cliche however we actually have. With the gamers and workers we now have received, I’d all the time again us.”
