West Ham Women v Leicester City Women

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BUILDING ON A SOLID START WORDS: GEORGE BENSON Grace Fisk reflects on how her fourth season at West Ham United has begun. Having signed for West Ham United under the team’s first Manager of the WSL era, Matt Beard way back in December 2019, Fisk is now the second longest serving player in the current squad – with only Kate Longhurst wearing the Claret & Blue for longer. She has since become a very important cog at the heart of the Hammers defence. In the 2020/21 season, Fisk played every single minute for West Ham in the WSL, and last season, she bounced back from injury at the beginning of the campaign to play 16 league matches. In total, the 24-year-old has made a total of 63 appearances for the Club, and she is hoping to earn many more as the season progresses. She reflects on the start that the team have made to the 2022/23 season, and what the team can expect to come up against today… Grace, starting things off, how was the international break for you? I think the break allows the players that are still at the training ground to work on a lot of individualised things. Obviously, there’s a lot of players missing, so we don’t do a lot of teambased work out on the pitch. It’s challenging when you are only left with a small group and then everyone only comes back together a couple of days before the next league game, but it is the same for every team in this division. It used to be the top two or three clubs, but now that we’ve had the influx of talented players, plus the improvements that have come as time has gone on, it means that teams have a lot more internationals than they used to. It’s something we have all gotten used to, and it’s always nice when everyone returns from their respective international camps. You’ve played against a number of teams that have been managed by Willie Kirk – what are you expecting from Leicester on Sunday? He’s obviously a very wellrespected manager throughout the WSL and we’re expecting quite a tough game. We know that he’s only just taken over, but he will have had time during the break to implement some of his ideas with the players that have stayed behind, and his appointment could spur the team on. I think it will be a good game and both teams will go into it wanting to prove something for different reasons. We want to get back to winning ways after our defeat to Brighton last time out, and they want to get their first points of the season on the board. We know that there isn’t an easy game in this league, but we’re excited to get back out there in front of our fans. You’ve mentioned the Brighton game, how disappointing was it to be on the losing side last time out? Incredibly. For us, conceding five goals in unacceptable. We’ve gone back over the game as a group and we’ve looked at the areas where we need to be better and make sure that we don’t ship 16 COME ON YOU IRONS
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