On Worldwide Ladies’s Day, Sky Sports activities captain Karen Carney introduced the right option to join the Ladies’s Premier League with the English Premier League.
“I’ve all the time preferred to check males’s and girls’s soccer as a result of it ought to all come collectively,” she stated in a particular Ladies’s Premier League assembly on Tuesday night from 6 pm on Sky Sports activities. “Millie Shiny and Leah Williamson as Robin Dias and Virgil van Dijk, who all the time get the boys’s MVP award.”
As Manchester Metropolis and Liverpool battle it out for one of many largest prizes within the males’s sport, here is a wholesome reminder that the WSL has an equally thrilling title race this season. Arsenal are at present main the way in which, however Arsenal’s eight-point lead would slip if Chelsea win all three of their video games in hand.
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Whereas either side have wowed WSL followers with their attacking play, it’s their robust defenses that put the London rivals forward of the remainder of the group. Arsenal and Chelsea have conceded simply 16 objectives between them because the begin of the season – defenders Williamson and Shiny have been central to their group’s title challenges.
In order the title race heats up, Sky Sports activities Consultants assess which participant from Shiny or Williamson is the very best for the WSL Participant of the Yr title on the finish of the season…
vivid – ‘aura, presence and command’
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Karen Carney and Kelly Smith be a part of WSL Particular to debate the job Emma Hayes performs at Chelsea and the way she is continually evolving within the girls’s sport
Carne: “I believe this season I’ve already seen aura, presence and management from Millie Shiny. For me, a contemporary defender needs to be glorious in possession as a result of the central defender has the ball naturally. The traces and units Chelsea of their manner.
“Millie Shiny, for me, goes to place her head the place individuals do not need to put their toes. She has that perspective in direction of her with aim passes and hazard sensing.
“It is a cliché that objectives win video games however clear sheets win trophies for you. She had loads of accountability for it and with Captain Magdalena Ericsson out she needed to put together and I believe you noticed that in her.
Arsenal’s Lea Williamson (left) and Chelsea’s Millie Shiny (proper) play for England
“She’s good at possession, she will defend, she will set set items [and is good] Out and in of possession and will rating a aim.”
Smith: “She loves defending. That is her bread and butter. When a ball is available in and a participant stands in entrance of her, she will nibble in your heels, she loves the defensive mentality of the sport. She just isn’t afraid to hit you and allows you to know you’re in a sport, she is like an old style defender who likes to defend.”
“I believe she’s gotten higher and higher because the season goes on. Emma Hayes wants that too at Chelsea and England want that too as a result of that is what she’s all about. She loves defending after which giving it to probably the most inventive gamers to go and do your factor.
Chelsea’s Millie Shiny (left) does a courageous defensive job for the membership’s star attackers like Sam Kerr (proper)
“She stood up and counted with Captain Magdalena Ericsson going out. Some individuals can collapse and stroll away and never try this. She’s received the expertise for that however she positively has the flexibility, the starvation and the will to defend. And he or she made it.”
“If you rating these objectives, you see the eagerness and what it means for her to attain these objectives. She is the primary title on the Chelsea group sheet and one of many first names to seem on the England sheet additionally due to her means.”
Williamson – “Arsenal extra direct with it’
Carne: “Each Shiny and Williamson are center-right halves of the aspect and each are very comparable when it comes to their traits.
“The midfield defenses must be superb in possession and he or she’s an attacking mentality participant as a result of she’s performed central midfield. She’s additionally performed proper again typically so she’s naturally considering ahead.
Leah Williamson celebrated after placing Arsenal 3-0 forward in opposition to Studying
“If you’re within the group, Arsenal are extra direct. And for me, there’s the shortcoming to defend head-to-head play within the WSL, groups which might be doing properly and groups which might be straight ahead.
“It is no coincidence that whenever you’re not within the group they’re much less direct and so they have not received and so they’ve been much less profitable. The center halves must be good aerially and you must put your head the place you do not typically.
“When Arsenal struggled to fall when she wasn’t within the group, they had been additionally tapped on the again. The opposite Arsenal centre-back lacked pace – and what Leah Williamson does is pace.”
Watch the Ladies’s Tremendous League on Sky Sports activities Premier League and Sky Sports activities Soccer at 6pm.
