The pitch used for Arsenal Girls’s 2-0 Champions League defeat to Actual Madrid on Tuesday has been labelled as a “shame” by former Arsenal striker Ian Wright.
The primary leg of the Champions League quarter-final tie was performed at a moist and muddy Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano (the stadium utilized by Actual Madrid Femenino and Actual Madrid Castilla) which led the 61-year-old, who performed greater than 250 video games for Arsenal, to attract comparisons to the
When requested about adapting to poor situations in latest video games, Arsenal head coach Renee Slegers mentioned following the defeat to Actual Madrid: “We spoke about it with the gamers earlier than the sport. We knew the situation of the pitch.
“So we had a plan for it however then it’s at all times 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, the fact comes and these situations come, and swiftly it is advisable do issues in a different way in order that’s onerous.
“However the gamers tried so all credit score to them for attempting and their work charge. However once more, I feel we’re all assured that we will do one thing towards them on the Emirates at house as a result of it’s solely half-time.”
Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor questioned whether or not the usual of the Girls’s League Cup closing pitch would have been accepted within the males’s sport.
Saturday’s closing between Chelsea and Metropolis was hosted at Derby County’s Pleasure Park, with the enjoying floor bobbly and minimize up, and with massive parts showing sandy.
Slegers was requested about Madrid not enjoying the sport on the Santiago Bernabeu, to which she replied: “It’s not on me to criticize that’s clearly a membership choice and I’m certain that UEFA is attempting to create one of the best situations for the match.
“In fact, climate shouldn’t be inside management, however I feel we’ve seen a few video games currently the place the pitch situations haven’t been nice and I feel that’s the subsequent step for ladies’s soccer to take.”
Objectives from Linda Caicedo and Athena del Castillo secured the first-leg victory for Actual Madrid.
Arsenal face Liverpool within the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) on Saturday earlier than dealing with Actual Madrid within the second leg on March 26. Each of those video games will likely be performed at Emirates Stadium.
has approached UEFA for remark.
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