Arsenal’s Alessia Russo is the in-form player in the Women’s Super League.
After a slow start to the season by her usual standards, a late strike in a Champions League win over Valerenga on October 16 ended a run of eight games without a goal and proved the start of a superb run, featuring 10 goals in 11 games.
On Thursday, she was named WSL player of the month for December and given the goal of the month award for her fantastic effort against Aston Villa on December 8.
🗳️ The votes are in…
🎯 Alessia Russo’s delightful curler against Aston Villa has won our December Goal of the Month! 👏
— Arsenal Women (@ArsenalWFC) January 7, 2025
Here, she talks The Athletic through the development of her game over the past couple of years by looking at 10 goals, featuring strikes with her left foot, her right foot, her head and, of course, that backheeled nutmeg…
A curled one-on-one finish in a 4-1 win over Chelsea, 2023-24
This is the goal against Chelsea at the Emirates, which hopefully you remember.
Yes. This was a fun game.
When Arsenal fans see that kind of goal: inside-left, curling inside the far post, they think of Thierry Henry. He always used to say how often he practised that. Is that the kind of goal you would practise on the training ground?
That…
