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Lewis Ambrose¡7 February 2023
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Lewis Ambrose¡7 February 2023
Strikers, strikers, strikers. They score goals, they win you games. But sometimes they donât. And there is nowhere else to focus after the WSL weekend.
Another week, another goal for Bunny Shaw. And another win for Manchester City as well.
Shaw had actually failed to score in three of her last four WSL outings, with City drawing twice in that run.
Tottenham have played 11 WSL games this season.
Beth England has played in two of them and is one goal away from being the clubâs leading scorer for the campaign. Her second league goal in a Spurs shirt came against former employers Chelsea.
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It wasnât enough for a result but Tottenham do finally appear to have a reliable source of goals.
Englandâs goal didnât matter because, frankly, Chelsea can score a few without a striker chipping in.
They netted three without Sam Kerr or Fran Kirby getting involved and none was finer all weekend than Lauren Jamesâ superb solo effort.
Who needs a striker anyway? Well âŚ
⌠with Vivianne Miedema and Beth Mead out, Arsenal wanted a striker in January.
They did not get one and the last thing the narrative needed was a 0-0 draw immediately after the window shut. It was bad timing for their first blank of the season.
There was no shortage of chances against West Ham, especially early on, but the Gunners badly need one of their forwards to step up.
Maybe it helped Arsenal fans to see Manchester United also fail to score for the first time this season in their goalless draw with Everton.
United got off 25 shots â the most theyâve had in a game all season â but just four hit the target. And Arsenal target Alessia Russo found the target with just one of her seven attempts.
Maybe those deadline day bids did have some kind of impact on both clubs.
And sometimes, if you need a goal, someone capable of launching a throw-in right into the mixer is enough!