Lauren Hemp needs to “proper the wrongs” of final season’s Ladies’s Tremendous League title collapse after Manchester Metropolis had been pitted towards Arsenal on the opening day of the brand new season.
Final season’s runners-up will journey to the Emirates Stadium to tackle the Gunners for the opening match of the league season on September 22, reside on Sky Sports activities.
Metropolis’s defeat to Arsenal in Might was the match that swung the WSL title again into Chelsea’s favour, because the Blues retained a fifth successive league title and a closing one for Emma Hayes.
Man Metropolis misplaced late on to Arsenal to throw the WSL title again into Chelsea’s fingers
Hemp stated dropping the title so late “nonetheless hurts” however spoke in regards to the significance of a win to start out the brand new marketing campaign.
Reacting to Metropolis’s opening match with Arsenal, Hemp instructed Sky Sports activities Information: “So excited. Clearly being on the Emirates on the primary sport of the season, hopefully we are able to kick off with an amazing sport.
“Now we have received the entire of preparation in pre-season to get ourselves in good stead for that sport. I am wanting ahead to it, what a method to begin.
“Clearly we had been very disillusioned [last season]. It nonetheless hurts wanting again and serious about it. We have got a brand new season coming as much as hopefully proper these wrongs.
Chelsea lifted the Ladies’s Tremendous League trophy and handy Emma Hayes the dream farewell
“This season we’ve so many trophies up for grabs, it offers us much more expertise and starvation to attain large issues this season. I imagine within the squad we have got that we are able to go on and try this.
“It might be good to get a win and it’ll put us in a great place going into the remainder of the video games within the window. It is essential to hit the bottom operating, to get off to a great begin.
“With the expertise of taking part in Chelsea final season within the first couple of video games, we all know what it is like and we all know what Arsenal are going to deliver. Hopefully we can counter that.”
Hemp needs to avenge final season’s WSL title race loss
Hemp: I seemed as much as Miedema, we want her!
Manchester Metropolis have made two summer time additions to their squad forward of the brand new marketing campaign – West Ham’s Risa Shimizu was the second acquisition behind the high-profile free seize of Vivianne Miedema.
The Dutch striker, previously of Arsenal, is the all-time file goalscorer in WSL historical past with 78 targets and can be a part of final season’s Golden Boot winner Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw in a scintillating Metropolis line-up.
Arsenal legend and WSL all-time high goalscorer Vivianne Miedema has joined runners-up Manchester Metropolis on a three-year deal
“We have got some unbelievable expertise. We have not too long ago signed Viv which is a superb signing for us,” Hemp stated.
“She’s accomplished many good issues for Arsenal and we’re hoping she’ll do the identical for Metropolis. We have got a lot expertise on this squad, and we got here so shut final season, we’re hopefully going to place that proper. All of it begins with the opening weekend.
“She’s a unbelievable participant, so many strengths and hardly any weaknesses. She’s a pure goalscorer and we want that.
“Now we have Bunny Shaw who does that, so having Viv alongside her as effectively will likely be unbelievable. We have know for a few years what she’s dropped at the WSL and I’ve seemed as much as her a lot rising up. It will likely be nice to share the pitch along with her.”
Watch Arsenal vs Man Metropolis on the opening weekend of the brand new Ladies’s Tremendous League season on Sunday September 22, kick-off 12.30pm
