Kyra Cooney-Cross, Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord share their resolve for domestic honours and World Cup highlights
hen you see people giving everything they’ve got, you can’t help but be like: ‘I want to watch more, I want to support you, I want to back you,’” says the Arsenal full-back Steph Catley. “That’s what [fans] see in our team. Especially towards the end of last year, knowing how much we’d been through, losing so many of our teammates to injury, seeing we were absolutely giving everything – you can’t help but love a team that does that.
Catley says: “It’s hard for people on the outside to fathom the pure exhaustion that you have after a major tournament. Unless you go through it, and you go towards the end of the tournament, which the majority of our squad did. It’s physical, it’s emotional, it’s mental, and then to try and think about all of that and sit with all of that and come back into an environment where immediately you’ve got something on the line that means so much and switch that mindset, it’s extremely hard.
When Arsenal were beaten by Paris, thoughts about last season’s battle to finish third and have a chance of Champions League football were there. “I know that was in my mind, remembering a lot of last season and how hard we fought to get there,” says Catley. “But once it was over, it was hard to grasp that we’re actually not going to be in the Champions League, because it felt so far away removed from the Champions League, I suppose.
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