Teenage striker Michelle Agyemang has been backed to to search out the energy to achieve her potential “indisputably” regardless of rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
The 19-year-old will miss the remainder of the season after struggling the damage because the Lionesses beat Australia 3-0 in Tuesday's pleasant.
Agyemang was as a shock inclusion in Sarina Wiegman's squad for Euro 2025 in the summertime, however scored essential targets in each the quarter-finals and semi-finals as they efficiently defended their European title.
The Arsenal ahead began this season properly on mortgage at Brighton, whose supervisor Dario Vidosic mentioned on Friday: “It is not simply us which might be heartbroken however the entire nation, seeing her go down in that sport, I believe all of us held our breath.
“There aren't any phrases, it is a powerful one. I spoke to her at present and she or he mentioned she is OK, she feels good.
“She is a really switched-on child so her thoughts is already set on it (restoration), that is the spectacular factor about her that perhaps not everybody will get to see.
“It is an opportunity to enhance. We'll hold her engaged and studying, if not bodily. We will nonetheless hold her thoughts rising and studying as a younger participant.
“She nonetheless has plenty of potential that we have been seeing every week, she was rising via the expertise of taking part in and developing towards powerful opponents.
“Now we'll discover one other means to do this off the pitch. We'll assist her mentally in order that when she comes again it is going to be like she hasn't missed a beat.”
Having suffered two ACL accidents herself throughout her taking part in profession, Arsenal supervisor Renee Slegers is aware of what Agyemang goes via.
“It is a very unhappy time,” she added. “When these moments occur it is horrible as a result of you recognize that it's going to hold them away from the sport for a very long time.
“Michelle has been doing so properly, she was in a extremely good place. The timing of this is not nice, though it is by no means a great time.
“However Michelle may be very sturdy, she's younger, she may have the energy to return again and we'll do all the pieces we are able to to help her.”
