🎧Women's Football Weekly: Inside Arsenal plus Lionesses squad
The latest episode of BBC Radio 5 Live's Women's Football Weekly is now available on BBC Sounds.Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Ben Haines are at the Arsenal training ground catching up with Alessia Russo and Lotte Wubben-Moy, who share an insight into what it's been like since Renee Slegers has been in charge and how that has helped on the pitch.Russo and White discuss the pressure that comes with wearing the England number nine shirt, plus the team talk North London derby this weekend and playing at the Emirates.Listen here.
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