[Albion] Arsenal v Brighton and Hove Albion WSL 7.30 tonight ko

[Mr Banana]

Just finished watching the match on delay.

Knew it was going to be a tough game with players out through illness and injury it what is a light squad anyway with the players who left last season and not picking up many in the transfer window, but for Kullberg to get a red so early made it an impossible task. According to the match report, Blackstenius was offside but it was still a rash tackle to have made as the flag hadn't gone up. Nearly stopped watching then, but kept watching to the end for my sins...

Bance didn't have a good game, but Robinson looked lively for awhile after coming on for her at halftime and we did at times pass nicely and not panic with the ball. Lee continues to frustrate - dwells on the ball too long or gives the ball away when passing. She seems to do better when defending - maybe she should drop back!

Even aside from our squad issues you could see the difference in quality between Arsenal and Brighton, and that is going to make breaking into the top four (a long term objective for the womens team) very hard as we won't be able to attract the quality of players we would need unless we throw money at them which is not the Brighton way.

My player of the match - Walsh who did well to keep the scoreline down.

Next game is Reading a week on Sunday at the Amex. Hopefully some of the missing players will be back and we will do better against a team more at our 'level'. Going to be a long season until the next transfer window - think we will be utilizing a lot of the players from the development squad!

Spot on.

It was a free hit this evening and Albion did commendably after the task became near-impossible.

Could have equalised twice. Positives to take and plenty of potential.