“I’m playing for free and I’m at best at the time,” Chloe Kelly said Sky Sports From the English camp this week, accompanied by a bright smile. “I’m having fun.”
The wing enters this month’s international break from two excellent performances by Arsenal.
There are plenty of reasons to believe that Kelly would be doing well in a club that has progressed as a young man after the January shock loan from Manchester City, but reality still needed stress testing. The first grades are good.
“We want you to stay,” Gunners fans sang after Kelly gave help for Beth Mead’s opener in 4-0 Crystal Palace. The fact that Kelly and Mead, both traditional right -wing, were deployed in the same XI start and combined with good effect is also valuable.
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The most important of the women’s Super League match between Crystal Palace and Arsenal.
A lot of pessimists doubted whether England’s Euro 2022 would find a playing time – and a spark – so she wished it would be reduced to only 165 minutes of a women’s super league football in Man City in this term. Arsenal has already had three of the most effective league operators in rotation – Mead, Mariona Caldentey and Caitlin Foord. But Kelly proved to be a perfect companion.
Its smooth transition felt like restoring the natural order. A player who settled again in Arsenal Cosmos as if she had never left. And with the added comfort of evidence of a very public, very chaotic decision to freeze it was badly assessed.
The 27 -year -old woman, in her main years, feels appreciated again. “It really contributes to our training environment,” Renee Slegers said recently about her new recruitment. “She’s very wild, she’s the winner, very competitive. She’s great. We’re very happy with her.”
Something about the shocks encouraged Kelly. There’s a bit “I told you”, but it feels a little under her. Indeed, what this recent block of games has shown is the immense quality and versatility it offers when it has confidence to express its personality.
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Chloe Kelly is thinking about his time with England because he also talks about all things Arsenal and Baller League!
Newly appointed Baller League Coach It is not shy from the center of attention. She was often a specialist in a large Okas. Which is the decision of the city to allow it to leave in January and join the direct WSL opponent in the middle of the campaign, which included running in the phase of the Knockout Champions League, all the more curious.
Since the departure of Kelly, the city has lost the League Cup final, the WSL race fell further and got to Europe. The head coach Gareth Taylor, with whom the attacker dropped out of kindness, was also released. The optics are not great.
In three separate competitions – all in the hands of Chelsea – in the last fortnight will enjoy only a little pleasure, but has the right to question the reasons. The frontline hit in the city -affected injuries was left to the flouner and looked like a stranger every piece, while Kelly rediscover her form to play a key role in the Arsenal Final Four League.
“The football field has always been an entertaining place for me – from cages to now.
Kelly has an average of 3.8 shots, 5.8 crosses and 2.4 chances of WSL appearance since its transition to North London. Her game perfectly suits Sleger’s expansion, the front style of the front leg and the speed of connection with the new teammates was just as impressive, caught playing more like no. 10, because Arsenal hammered four around the palace on Sunday. Fine but simple genius.
Since then, the shooters have attracted the level with Chelsea league leaders to score goals, and in 2025 counted at least nine more than any other team. Their performance XG (10.8) is high on the league, while their targets (of which Kelly became a regular recipient) unrivaled.
Arsenal again proves that it is a creative force that is, according to their calculated comeback to Dump Real Madrid Last week from Europe. Forty -five minutes from the east, Kelly gave two assists in the first five minutes of the dramatic second half – both from the passage – to the surface of Arsenal in the tie, before Alessia Russo sent the winner.
Chloe Kelly has seen five posts on the seven shows from the transition to Arsenal
Kelly’s ability to leave the wing and attract the defenders added nuance to every attack. He became the only problem that real could not solve. Such synergy with English peers should be very beneficial for Sarina Wiegman this summer.
And this is the beauty of football, small details that matter. An unexpected opportunity to add players with misleading talent in January, may help change the course of the season for the better.
In three weeks, eight -time champions winners of the Lyon Champions are traveling to Emirates to attack the first stage of a fascinating semifinal. Arsenal will have to cause further upset, the one who will surely be in the heart.
