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Stina Blackstenius and the UEFA Women’s Champions League – it’s a match made in heaven!

Our super Swede secured her legendary status at the club with the winning goal in last season’s final against Barcelona, and has been looking ahead to this weekend’s semi-final first leg at home to Lyon.

Speaking at the Sobha Realty Training Centre on Friday about what this competition means to her, Stina said: “It’s a really special competition. Knowing that we won it last year was just amazing and a really good experience for us as a team.

“If I speak for me, that just makes me feel like I want to do it again and want to push for another piece of silverware. Arsenal is a club that should play in the Champions League and this is where we want to be. It’s such a special competition in every single way.”

The 2024/25 semi-finals saw us lose the first leg 2-1 at home to Lyon before producing a stunning turnaround in France to win the tie 5-3 on aggregate.

So what does Stina remember of those dramatic encounters?

“They were two tough games last season and two different games as well but I felt like in the second game it came out really fast, it was really intense but we also got the goals and that’s also something I think we could build on from what we went through in the group stage and against Real Madrid, coming back from the result we weren’t happy with but as a group we really came together and we played a really good game and that gave us a lot of confidence in the group and we have a strong belief in ourselves,” she said.

“So a big part is how much we believe in it and how much we trust each other in these situations and I really hope we can see that confidence from what we did then and keep going.”