Renee Slegers insists focus is on West Ham as Arsenal target return to winning ways in WSL

RENEE SLEGERS describes herself arsenic a manager who prefers to unrecorded successful the moment. 

It is an attack she is taking erstwhile it comes to being successful complaint of Arsenal successful the interim. 

The stand-in Gunners brag insists the imperishable occupation is not connected her caput contempt guiding the squad retired of a winless tally successful the apical tier and Europe.

Tomorrow Sunday Slegers volition beryllium astatine Arsenal’s helm again overseeing the squad for the archetypal clip successful a Women’s Super League duel.

Their travel to West Ham follows the Netherlands-born manager manaing the Gunners successful their 4-1 decision of Valerenga successful the Champions League pursuing a nonaccomplishment to Bayern Munich. 

The lucifer volition beryllium their archetypal top-flight crippled since their erstwhile brag Jonas Eidevall resigned connected October 15.

A gully and a nonaccomplishment from their past 2 WSL outings saw them driblet to sixth and 5 points disconnected leaders Man City. 

This play they anticipation to instrumentality to winning ways successful the apical tier up of their November 3rd travel to Manchester United aft the planetary break. 

Slegers said: ”I similar to beryllium successful the infinitesimal successful beingness successful wide and that’s what’s needed astatine the moment.

“It’s thing we talked astir with the players arsenic well, tin we beryllium arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable successful the present and present due to the fact that that’s what we tin impact.”

On whether she knows if she intends to enactment herself guardant for the imperishable Arsenal caput manager vacancy, Slegers added: “No, that’s not connected my caput astatine all. 

“It’s a beauteous nine and it’s a superb squad. We person each the facilities, each the resources, truthful it’s evidently a precise bully occupation to have. 

“I haven’t had clip to bespeak connected myself that overmuch during these past mates of days.

“But I privation to believe. I privation the champion for each individual, to person each idiosyncratic amusement their biggest spot and to person the squad play truly bully football. 

“I don’t deliberation astatine the infinitesimal that’s what I privation to deep-dive. At the infinitesimal it’s West Ham and to get the 3 points connected Sunday. 

“I'm blessed to beryllium a portion of it astatine this infinitesimal successful clip doing everything I tin bash to assistance the squad more.”

Sunday’s derby volition spot the Irons and the Gunners battling for maximum points. 

While West Ham are inactive chasing their archetypal triumph successful the apical tier this term, Arsenal person fared somewhat amended distant from home, narrowly beating Leicester 1-0 successful September. 

The Gunners volition beryllium aiming to boost their extremity tally having netted conscionable erstwhile successful their past 2 WSL games. 

And Slegers hopes Alessia Russo scoring her archetypal radical signifier Champions League extremity this word volition pave the mode for much goals for the striker successful the WSL this term.

The interim Arsenal main added: “Alessia is truly bully astatine knowing it’s important to get yourself into bully positions and past the goals volition travel and she scored connected Wednesday.

“That’s the main absorption - to support connected getting our forwards successful bully positions to beryllium capable to get the shot into the backmost of the net.”