Press conference

Arsenal Media 10 Oct 2025

Renée Slegers was back in front of the media for her pre-Brighton press conference at the Sobha Realty Training Centre on Friday.

Our head coach was asked about her thoughts Sunday's opposition, team selections and more.

Here's what she had to say on the following subjects...

on team news after the Lyon game:
Everyone was on the training pitch today, we have more day to go tomorrow of course but everyone’s fit at the moment apart from Leah Williamson. 

on if there’s extra pressure on us to win on Sunday:
Like we said there’s extremely high expectations on ourselves and that’s the very, very strongest and of course we want to and need to win more. 

on if it’s hard not to look ahead to the Chelsea game already:
I’m not looking at that game already, I’m looking at Brighton only, on Sunday. I think what’s most important for us right now is to be in the present and everything that’s done, that’s done, we can’t affect it any more. The only thing we...