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, dwell broadcast sky sports activities.
Manchester Metropolis’s loss to Arsenal in Could noticed Chelsea regain the WSL title, giving the Blues a 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 dropping the championship so late “nonetheless hurts” however spoke of the significance of a win to begin the season.
Hamp reacts to Manchester Metropolis’s first sport towards Arsenal sky sports activities information: “So excited. Clearly the primary sport of the season on the Emirates Stadium and hopefully we are able to begin with a great sport.
“Now we have ready effectively in pre-season to be prepared for this sport. I am wanting ahead to it, what a fantastic begin it’s.
“Clearly we’re very dissatisfied [last season]. Pondering again on it nonetheless hurts. We’re about to enter a brand new season and hopefully we are able to right these errors.
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“Now we have loads of trophies up for grabs this season, which provides us extra expertise and the will to attain nice issues this season. I imagine our squad can proceed to try this.
“It will 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 necessary to hit the bottom working 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 may be like and we all know what Arsenal are going to carry. Hopefully we are able to 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 season 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 document with 78 targets and can be 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
“Now we have some nice expertise. We just lately signed Viv, which was a fantastic signing for us,” Hemp stated.
“She has accomplished loads of good issues for Arsenal and we hope she will do the identical for Manchester Metropolis. Now we have loads of expertise on this squad and we had 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 loads of strengths and nearly no weaknesses. She is a pure goalscorer and we want that.
“We have got Bunny Shaw doing that, so it’s going to be nice to have Viv together with her as effectively. We have all recognized what she dropped at the WSL over time and I appeared as much as her loads rising up. It will be nice to have her with us.” 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
