Our shot-stopper was a crucial part of that quarter-final second leg at Chelsea, making four big saves to keep us ahead in the tie on aggregate.<\/p>\n
The Dutch goalkeeper actually played 90 minutes of all four matches, going on to help us to a clean sheet in the big 7-0 win over Leicester.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our attacking right back became an attacking right winger in our 7-0 win over Leicester, scoring her first two goals for the club and providing an excellent assist for Leah Williamson\u2019s header.<\/p>\n She also came on in the 69th minute of our game at Chelsea, played 84 minutes of our FA Cup tie with Brighton, and came on in the 93rd minute of our Champions League semi-final first leg success over Lyon.<\/p>\n Against Leicester, Smilla made an impressive 15 crosses.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Emily played 69 minutes of our Champions League quarter-final at Chelsea before coming on in the 84th minute of our FA Cup clash with Brighton.<\/p>\n Against Lyon, she played 90 minutes of the semi-final first leg, making three important interceptions, and then played 53 minutes of our 7-0 win over Leicester.<\/p>\n Katie demonstrated her versatility last month, often being deployed at centre-back when required.<\/p>\n She played the full 90 minutes of our games against Chelsea and Lyon, came on in the 76th minute of the Brighton match, and helped us to a clean sheet against Leicester by playing 81 minutes of that 7-0 victory.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April was a big month for us in our pursuit of more UEFA Women\u2019s Champions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Daphne: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to Lyon so much\u201d <\/span>
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Smilla: \u201cI like to be involved offensively\u201d <\/span>
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KATIE MCCABE<\/h2>\n
Vote for your men’s Player of the Month for April <\/span>
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