Rosa Kafaji starts for Arsenal in their pre-season friendly against Chelsea at Audi Field in Washington. Kafaji came off the bench to set up a goal against Washington Spirit last week. The returning Olympians, Codina, Mariona and Emily Fox, are all on the bench.
Manu Zinsberger starts in goal with Laura Wienroither at right-back, Leah Williamson and Steph Catley partner up at centre-half with Katie McCabe at left-back. Kim Little and Kyra Cooney-Cross anchor the midfield.
Kafaji will play behind Alessia Russo upfront with Caitlin Foord and Beth Mead either side of her. Lia Walti also returns to the bench after picking up a knee injury at the end of last season.
1.Zinsberger; 26.Wienroither, 6.Williamson, 7.Catley, 11.McCabe; 10.Little(c), 32.Cooney-Cross; 9.Mead, 16.Kafaji, 19.Foord; 23.Russo.
Subs: 2.Fox, 5.Codina, 8.Mariona, 12.Maanum, 13.Walti, 22.Kuhl, 40.Williams, 53.Lia, 59.Agyemang, 60.Earl, 61.Harbert, 62.Reid.
Go get ‘em.
Time to lay down a marker.
We did that for our 3/4 place fight
I’m watching it on YouTube but missed the first 15 mins. Is Mead off injured? I can’t work out our formation at all.
They just said “a change of lineup” with ke coming on for her but obvs not in same position no report on any injury and she wasn’t in the pre-start lineup (don’t know what it’s properly called)
And she was the only bright spot of our game