\n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Sophie was pleased with our Gunners’ high-scoring performance throughout the 90 and had high praise for her fellow teammates. “Yeah, I think the girls were incredible today,” she said. “From start to finish, they all smashed it.<\/p>\n “To get the goals in the way we did, it\u2019s just amazing. I\u2019m so grateful to be part of a special team.”<\/p>\n Sophie usually operates as a full-back but was deployed at the top of the pitch by Ren\u00e9e Slegers to see out the match against the Hammers, and was happy to enter the contest in any role necessary. “I was like, I\u2019m going to come on, work my socks off and try and get on the ball.<\/p>\n “I was just so excited to be on the pitch, I didn\u2019t mind where I was!”<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n It was her first time playing as a striker, with Chloe Kelly and Beth Mead in support on either side, an experience that Sophie will never forget.<\/p>\n “They\u2019re both incredible players. Being able to train with them, day in and day out, is amazing.<\/p>\n To be able to play in Emirates Stadium with them and everyone else in the team, it just \u2013 it\u2019s amazing. I can\u2019t put it into words.”<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n The next seven days pose a big challenge for our Gunners, with a big European night against Chelsea coming before an all-important north London derby with Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend.<\/p>\n Both tests will take place at our N5 home in front of a big audience, an opportunity Sophie greatly welcomes.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re all excited. We love a challenge, we love testing ourselves against top teams and we believe in what we\u2019ve got in the building.<\/p>\n “We know they’re going to be tough games but we back ourselves, so hopefully we put in a good performance.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\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":" Sophie Harwood made her Arsenal debut in front of an Emirates Stadium crowd when she came on in the 5-0 win over West Ham United. The 18-year-old was used as … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Report: Arsenal Women 5-0 West Ham United <\/span>
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