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Renée Slegers is under pressure. Arsenal Women have begun an internal review, and there were tears in the dressing room last week. That's the backdrop to the question now hanging over the 37-year-old head coach: how secure is she?
The table makes the case against her. Arsenal are 10th in the WSL after five games. They've won one of them.
Sunday's 4-2 defeat at Manchester City was the sort that gets coaches into reviews. Arsenal led twice and lost. City stay unbeaten, and Arsenal went home with nothing from a game they'd had their hands on.
The pressure on Slegers keeps growing, according to The Guardian. That's hardly a bold call when your side is 10th. The harder charge is about the bench.
Another set of substitutions at City "seemed to confuse the team", according to Arseblog News' Arsenal Women Arsecast. That's the bit I'd put first in any review.
A coach can ride out a bad run of results. Changes that leave her own players unsure what they're meant to be doing are much harder to defend.
Tears in a dressing room aren't a sacking offence. But they don't sit well beside a review and a team in 10th.
I'd keep her through the review. Not because the results earn it.
Because one win in five league games is a reason to look hard at the bench, and a review is the place to do that properly. If the substitutions don't change, though, nothing else will.
Europe has been kinder. The 2-2 in Paris last week leaves Arsenal fifth in the Champions League league phase, and that's the one table that doesn't embarrass anyone.
Benfica come to London on 28 October. By then the review should have said something.
On the men's side, the international break has been productive.
Mikel Merino scored twice in a dramatic comeback for Spain. Riccardo Calafiori got his first goal for Italy. Viktor Gyokeres scored again.
Gyokeres is the one I care about most. After a 3-0 defeat at Brighton last time out, a striker coming back with goals in his legs is exactly what you want before Leeds visit on 10 October.
Merino's double is welcome. Gyokeres scoring is what Arsenal actually need.
Martin Odegaard has been named Arsenal men's Player of the Month.
Myles Lewis-Skelly is on the 25-man Golden Boy shortlist for the second year running. This time it's his work in midfield, not at left-back, that's put him there.
That's quite a turn. He made only two Premier League appearances between January and April last season. Then he was drafted into midfield for the final five games of the title-winning campaign, and his performances earned him a start in the Champions League final against PSG.
He's kept it going. Lewis-Skelly has featured in four of Arsenal's five Premier League matches this season. He's earned a recall to the England squad too.
Cesc Fabregas is still the only Arsenal player to win the award, 20 years ago. Lewis-Skelly won't be judged on whether he matches him.
He'll be judged on whether midfield becomes his position for good. I think it should. I'd start him there against Leeds on 10 October.