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In entrance of the largest-ever crowd for a Women’s Super League match, Arsenal defeated its archrival Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 on a historic day for ladies’s soccer in England.
The attendance file was one other vital improvement in a record-breaking 12 months for ladies’s soccer, with attendance information additionally damaged on the Girls’s European Championships and girls’s Champions League.
Arsenal placed on a present from the very begin for all 47, 367 followers packed contained in the Emirates Stadium, with a aim for Beth Mead after simply 5 minutes, earlier than Vivianne Miedema added one other two objectives both aspect of Raffaele Souza’s header to finish the rout.
“To start with thanks to the followers for coming. We placed on a present and I hope they loved it,” Arsenal’s captain Kim Little instructed the BBC.
“You’re so conscious of it, you’ll be able to hear it now. It makes a giant distinction and in the summertime the England ladies felt it. I’m simply completely satisfied we had been capable of placed on a efficiency.”
Little had helped engineer Arsenal’s first aim, discovering Mead unmarked on the sting of the penalty field.
Although her first effort ricocheted again to her, the Euros Golden Boot winner made no mistake along with her second try.
Arsenal’s energy saved Tottenham stranded in its personal half for a lot of the primary half and Spurs couldn’t convert a uncommon alternative on 38 minutes with Celin Bizet Ildhusoy unable to deceive the Gunners’ goalkeeper Manuela Zinsberger.
In simply 5 minutes, Arsenal doubled its lead as Spurs conceded possession simply exterior its personal field to the delight of Miedema who pounced on the unfastened ball and fired it previous the backpedaling goalkeeper Becky Spencer.
The Gunners’ dominance continued after halftime with Souza capitalizing on a nook to move the ball into the web.
As soon as once more, the pink and white flags both aspect of the aim unfurled, waving backward and forward as if conducting the gang in its celebrations.
The subsequent cheer got here from off the pitch because the record-breaking attendance was formally introduced, smashing the earlier better of 38, 262 set in 2019 on the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
And there was nonetheless time for extra festivities as Miedema headed in her second aim of the afternoon from Steph Catley’s cross into the field.
With these 4 objectives, Arsenal sealed its tenth consecutive WSL win and continued its file of maintaining a clear sheet within the WSL since March 6.
