Jordan Nobbs: We can get in Man City’s faces in Women's League Cup final

Jordan Nobbs: We can get in Man City’s faces in Women's League Cup final
Vivianne Miedema goes into Saturday's final in a rich vein of form Credit: GETTY IMAGES

I am injured unfortunately, so will miss Saturday’s final, but at least I will be part of the BT Sport presenting team at Bramall Lane.

Manchester City like to play out from the back, get Steph Houghton on the ball and look to hit Nikita Parris early. That is what is difficult when facing them: they make the pitch very big and expansive, so to press is always difficult.

On the flip side, we have a terrorising forward line that create lots of opportunities. That will be our key area in getting bodies in and around their faces and putting them under pressure early on. We have the likes of Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema, who are on fire at the moment.

When Joe Montemurro came into Arsenal, he brought some “style rules”: no square passes, never be in the line of another pass. You have a basic rule to play off and you can then be free within that framework.

He has worked hard on getting us to a certain structure that has been drilled into us and we have then been allowed more freedom to make our own decisions. Sometimes teams do not know what we are playing even after we come off the pitch, because our players have been doing so much interchanging.

But sometimes you do not know what to expect until it happens on the day. When you play for a club like Arsenal, trophies are all we talk about.

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