Lauren Hamp hopes to “proper the wrongs of final season’s Ladies’s Tremendous League title defeat” after Manchester Metropolis face Arsenal on the opening day of the brand new season.
Final season’s runner-up will go to the Emirates Stadium to face the Gunners within the league season opener on September 22, stay broadcast sky sports activities.
Manchester Metropolis’s loss to Arsenal in Might noticed Chelsea regain the WSL title, with the Blues claiming their fifth successive league title and Emma Hayes’ final.
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Manchester Metropolis finally misplaced to Arsenal, handing the WSL title again to Chelsea
Hamp stated shedding the championship so late “nonetheless hurts” however spoke of the significance of a win to start out the season.
Hamp reacts to Manchester Metropolis’s first recreation towards Arsenal sky sports activities information: “So excited. Clearly the primary recreation of the season on the Emirates Stadium and hopefully we will begin with a great recreation.
“We have now ready nicely in pre-season to be prepared for this recreation. I am trying ahead to it, what an amazing begin it’s.
“Clearly we’re very dissatisfied [last season]. It nonetheless hurts after I suppose again. We’re about to enter a brand new season and hopefully we will appropriate these errors.
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“We have now lots of trophies up for grabs this season, which supplies us extra expertise and the need to realize nice issues this season. I imagine our squad can proceed to do this.
“It could be nice to get a win and it’ll put us in a great place for the remaining video games going into the switch window. It is vital to hit the bottom operating and get off to a great begin.”
“With the expertise of the primary few video games towards Chelsea final season we all know what it’ll be like and we all know what Arsenal are going to convey. Hopefully we will deal with that.”
Hemp look to avenge final season’s WSL title defeat
Hemp: I respect Miedema, we want her!
Metropolis have made two summer time signings forward of the beginning of the brand new season – West Ham United’s Risa Shimizu being the second acquisition following the high-profile free switch of Vivian Miedema.
The Dutch ahead, a former Arsenal man, is the WSL’s all-time goalscoring report with 78 targets and can be a part of final season’s Golden Boot winner Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw within the Metropolis squad.
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Arsenal legend and WSL’s all-time prime scorer Vivianne Miedema has signed a three-year contract with runners-up Manchester Metropolis
“We have now some nice expertise. We lately signed Viv, which was an amazing signing for us,” Hemp stated.
“She has carried out lots of good issues for Arsenal and we hope she will do the identical for Manchester Metropolis. We have now lots of expertise on this squad and we have been very shut final season and we hope to rectify that and all of it begins with the opening weekend .
“She is a superb participant with lots of strengths and virtually no weaknesses. She is a pure goalscorer and we want that.
“We have got Bunny Shaw to do this, so it will be nice to have Viv together with her as nicely. We have all identified what she delivered to the WSL over time and I had lots of respect for her rising up. It’s going to be nice to be together with her.” Share the pitch.
Watch Arsenal tackle Manchester Metropolis on the opening weekend of the brand new Ladies’s Tremendous League season on Sunday 22 September at 12.30pm
