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Arsenal’s interim head coach Renée Slegers says that defeating Bayern Munich within the membership’s ultimate UEFA Girls’s Champions League group stage fixture is vital for the continuation of momentum.

The Gunners play host to the German aspect on the Mangata UK Pay Stadium Meadow Park this night. Arsenal want a win to finish the group stage as group winners.

Underneath interim boss Slegers’ management, Arsenal are unbeaten in 10 video games. When talking to the media forward of this night’s fixture, Slegers highlighted the significance of constant the momentum into the Christmas break.

“Most significantly, it was [our aim] to qualify for the quarter-finals,” Slegers mentioned. “We did that, however now we mentioned ‘we go and try to win the sport and win the group’. It’s vital for the momentum of the group in the meanwhile.”

As a consequence of a fixture conflict with the lads’s group, Arsenal should play this night’s recreation in Boreham Wooden slightly than on the Emirates Stadium. Slegers says that her aspect can feed from the followers’ vitality on the Mangata Pay UK Stadium Meadow Park.

She mentioned “We’re going to play at Boreham Wooden and I feel what’s optimistic about Boreham Wooden is that we’re so near the followers. It’s a really intimate place to be, so I feel we get that additional connection. We’re very shut to one another, in order that’s optimistic from a services perspective.

“Clearly, the Emirates has all of the house, there’s room for all the pieces; there’s expertise and that’s totally different than Boreham Wooden, however we’ve been doing that for such a very long time and we now have a superb course of in place as nicely.”

Arsenal have been defeated 5-2 within the reverse fixture on Matchday 1. Former boss Jonas Eidevall was in cost for that recreation and Slegers highlighted the group’s momentum that has been constructed since that fixture.

She mentioned “From a outcomes perspective, we’re very pleased with the outcomes, however performances have been already good. If you happen to take a look at it statistically and objectively, we had good performances in place. We constructed momentum and I feel we did that nicely within the recreation in opposition to Vålerenga and shifting onwards. I feel it’s all the time very robust in case you have optimistic issues occurring, to maintain on constructing on these positives and you’ll carry on constructing momentum.

“It’s all the time [about] staying sharp as nicely as a result of it’s not simply optimistic and never simply momentum. We now have to remain sharp on what we have to emphasise and what particulars we want in place and work actually onerous. I feel that’s what the ladies have been doing.”

Arsenal’s UEFA Girls’s Champions League group stage fixture in opposition to Bayern Munich kicks-off at 8pm this night. The sport is an entire sell-out.