Friday, 9 October 2020

Arsenal's Jill Roord: 'Here I can be myself and I missed that at Bayern'

Midfielder on her flying start of two hat-tricks in two games, old arguments with her dad and how the Gunners get the balance right

Jill Roord, Arsenal’s scorer of consecutive hat-tricks which led to her being named on Friday as the first Barclays player of the month for the new season, lets out a big laugh when asked whether she is planning to challenge her compatriot Vivianne Miedema for the Golden Boot.

“That will be hard,” she says of surpassing the league’s top scorer of the past two seasons. “I don’t think it’s realistic for me to say I want to be top scorer and I don’t need to be, but I do think I should score a lot more than I did last season … Well, I’ve already done that.”

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