Eleven video games. Eleven begins. Ten objectives.
Alessia Russo is reaping the rewards of laborious work underneath Arsenal interim boss Renee Slegers and her wonderful type continued within the Gunners’ remaining recreation earlier than the winter break.
The 25-year-old scored Arsenal’s second objective in Wednesday’s 3-2 comeback win towards Bayern Munich that sealed prime spot of their Ladies’s Champions League group.
It took Russo’s tally to 11 objectives for the season, 10 of which have been scored underneath Slegers, with six coming in her final 4 video games.
“I am my very own largest 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 using the wave and when issues aren’t good it is stripping it again, specializing in coaching and that is what I’ve accomplished.”
England worldwide Russo has began each recreation underneath Slegers after Jonas Eidevall resigned as head coach in October.
Beneath the Swede, Russo began seven of 9 video games in the beginning of the marketing campaign, scoring simply as soon as.
“I am simply having fun with my soccer,” Russo stated. “We’re enjoying very nice soccer and we’re selecting up actually necessary outcomes. We’re actually having fun with ourselves and discovering so many alternative connections on the pitch and infrequently grinding out ends in totally different sorts of the way.
“We have been engaged on a lot of various things, however within the remaining third how we will discover totally different connections, how we will create several types of assaults. It begins in coaching and we’ve got been fortunate sufficient to seek 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 constructive as a bunch,” Russo stated. “We’ve simply been working actually laborious. I do know it sounds cliche however we actually have. With the gamers and workers we’ve got obtained, I might all the time again us.”