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9%
2 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Questions are being asked of Slegers amid Arsenal's subpar start to the campaign.
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Questions → ask → campaign
Before this match they had scored just twice in four league matches.
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they → score → matches
That tally has now doubled, but the points tally sticks at five as the Gunners tumble to tenth in the league table.
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Gunners → double → table
Improvement was sorely needed after Arsenal gave up a two-goal advantage via a bizarre penalty incident to draw with Paris FC in the Champions League this week, a result which Slegers found so galling she decided against taking on her media duties.
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she → need → duties
But scrutiny will only intensify after this latest capitulation at the Etihad.
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scrutiny → intensify → Etihad
Visiting the reigning WSL champions, Arsenal led late in the first-half through Lisa Baum, but they were cruelly pegged back in injury time by Lauren Hemp.
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they → visit → Hemp
Alessia Russo duly restored the advantage with her first league goal of the season shortly after the break, before City put on a late show inspired by Andree Jeglertz’s substitutes.
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City → restore → substitutes
Kerstin Casparij equalised at 2-2 before Khadija Shaw and Hemp added a pair of killer blows which left the visitors bereft.
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which → equalise → visitors
The manner of defeat will be hugely frustrating for Slegers, whose side twice seemed on track for a vital three points but could not get the result over the line.
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side → seem → line
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Arsenal head into the international break a lowly tenth in the WSL table, ten points adrift of leaders City.
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Arsenal → read → City
The players may be grateful for the time away, but there is plenty of soul-searching for Slegers and her staff back at Colney.
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players → be → Colney
Earlier in the day, London City Lionesses sent a clear statement to the rest of the table with a relentless 6-1 defeat of Tottenham.
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Lionesses → send → Tottenham
The two sides had come into this campaign in a similar station: targeting a Champions League berth after a summer of heavy spending.
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sides → come → spending
This match, then, provided an opportunity for either side to learn where their projects stand, and London City certainly taught Spurs a lesson.
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City → provide → lesson
Alexia Putellas opened the scoring after just three minutes and it was 3-0 after just over half an hour.
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it → open → hour
Victoria Pelova pulled one back after the break, but Martin Ho’s side were put to the sword at Brisbane Road and found themselves leapfrogged by their cross-town rivals.
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themselves → pull → rivals
It is a victory which catapults London City into the title race conversation, leaving them third and one point off second-placed Chelsea, who moved up the table after breezing past West Ham in Dagenham.
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who → catapult → Dagenham
City, still perfect, remain top.
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City → remain → ?
"The three points are the same as you can have in every game, but this kind of win can be a game changer in terms of showing everyone that we are pushing hard," Lionesses head coach Eder Maestre said at full-time.
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Maestre → have → time
“We need to be humble as well.
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We → need → ?
The teams that are used to being there and occupying these places [at the top] are still there.”
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that → use → top
Elsewhere, Brighton put five past Charlton to pick up their first league win of the campaign, while a Ruby Mace brace powered Everton beyond Birmingham City.
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brace → put → City
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