Arsenal interim head coach Renee Slegers insists her facet can go all the best way within the Girls’s Champions League after they beat Bayern Munich 3-2 to high Group C.

Mariona Caldentey’s late penalty sealed victory for the Gunners, who wanted to win the sport with a purpose to safe seeding within the quarter-finals.

Glodis Vigosdottir scored a first-half personal purpose earlier than Alessia Russo added the hosts’ second in an evenly-matched sport, and Slegers believes they’ll combine it with one of the best groups in Europe.

Of her staff’s possibilities of reaching the ultimate, Slegers instructed DAZN: “We have to have that perception, and we’ve that perception, particularly after in the present day.

“There are issues we will do higher within the sport, nevertheless it was the identical towards Liverpool [1-0 win on Sunday]. We don’t play our greatest sport, however nonetheless, we discovered methods to win and that could be a signal of a high staff.

“The eight groups which can be going via will likely be high, high groups. It’s optimistic to see how ladies’s soccer has grown and the soccer being performed.”

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The Bayern conflict was performed at Meadow Park, having been controversially moved from the Emirates Stadium resulting from a scheduling battle with the lads’s staff, as they performed Crystal Palace within the EFL Cup quarter-finals.

Slegers claims her facet felt simply as snug on the smaller venue, although, and needed to focus on the sport itself.

She stated: “It’s so intimate taking part in right here since you are so near the followers.

“It felt like a house sport undoubtedly. The pitch was a lot smaller. We really feel good taking part in right here, we really feel snug, and it was efficiency.”