{"id":854,"date":"2026-03-13T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=854"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:40:33","slug":"renee-on-challenges-and-excitement-in-the-team-quotes-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e on challenges and excitement in the team | Quotes | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The business end of the season is fast approaching as we return from the international break looking to wrap up our 2025\/26 campaign firing on all cylinders.<\/p>\n<p>In the months of March, April and May we will tackle UEFA Women\u2019s Champions league quarter-finals with Chelsea, an Adobe Women\u2019s FA Cup quarter-final with Brighton &#038; Hove Albion and eight Barclays Women\u2019s Super League matches, starting with Sunday\u2019s trip to London City Lionesses.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the weekend\u2019s game in Bromley, Ren\u00e9e Slegers sat down for her pre-match press conference at the Sobha Realty Training Centre and spoke about the physical and mental challenges posed by having so many big games on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s always going to be both (physical and mental),\u201d she said. \u201cWe have a really strong squad, a lot of players ready. If you look at the last block, there\u2019s been a lot of involvement of different players. The players are ready to perform for us and now with Steph, Caitlin Foord and Kyra Cooney-Cross not being with us, we\u2019re going to need everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course we know that we\u2019re going into five London derbies and then Brighton at the end of the block, we\u2019re active in three different competitions, so there\u2019s of course mental demands, like there always will be, but also physical. We start with these two games and we know how London City has framed the game, it\u2019s a big one for them, so we\u2019ll have to be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen it\u2019s West Ham and then we have those four games with a very short turnaround, so freshness is going to be key for us this block.\u201d<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"b8f8d7f4-71de-452b-b06d-018bf21947e0\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"125264\" about=\"\/news\/every-word-renees-pre-london-city-presser-1\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title has-icon\" title=\"Every word of Ren\u00e9e's pre-London City presser\"> <i class=\"icon icon--play\"\/> <span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Every word of Ren\u00e9e&#8217;s pre-London City presser <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<p>Our head coach was also asked if there\u2019s been a shift in the team\u2019s mentality now we\u2019re approaching the stage of the season where so much is on the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can feel that it&#8217;s coming closer,\u201d she said. \u201cThe players love it. We have competitors in our group, we&#8217;re in a great place. Before the international break, we didn&#8217;t want that block to stop because it was a really positive block for us. The results, obviously, the run of seven wins, but also everything we did as a group in the background to make everything really positive and challenging in a really good way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need to do is win every single game when we&#8217;re at Arsenal. But of course, there&#8217;s excitement in the team of us getting closer to trophies, so we really look forward to this block.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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":"<p>The business end of the season is fast approaching as we return from the international break looking to wrap up our 2025\/26 campaign firing on all cylinders. 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