'You have to ride the wave' - Russo resurgence continues

Eleven games. Eleven starts. Ten goals.

Alessia Russo is reaping the rewards of hard enactment nether Arsenal interim brag Renee Slegers and her good signifier continued successful the Gunners' last crippled earlier the wintertime break.

The 25-year-old scored Arsenal's 2nd extremity successful Wednesday's 3-2 comeback win against Bayern Munich that sealed apical spot successful their Women's Champions League group.

It took Russo's tally to 11 goals for the season, 10 of which person been scored nether Slegers, with six coming successful her past 4 games.

"I'm my ain biggest professional and I cognize astatine times I person decidedly not scored arsenic overmuch arsenic I privation to," Russo told DAZN aft the game.

"As strikers you ever person moments and spells. It's astir riding the question and erstwhile things aren't bully it's stripping it back, focusing connected grooming and that's what I person done."

Russo has started each crippled nether Slegers aft Jonas Eidevall resigned arsenic caput coach successful October.

Under the Swede, Russo started 7 of 9 games astatine the commencement of the campaign, scoring conscionable once.

"I'm conscionable enjoying my football," Russo added. "We're playing truly bully shot and we are picking up truly important results. We are truly enjoying ourselves and uncovering truthful galore antithetic connections connected the transportation and often grinding retired results successful antithetic kinds of ways.

"We've been moving connected tons of antithetic things, but successful the last 3rd however we tin find antithetic connections, however we tin make antithetic types of attacks. It starts successful grooming and we person been fortunate capable to find it successful matches too.

"It's been large and america arsenic players privation more, we privation to instrumentality accountability and that's what we're doing."

Arsenal and Russo caput into the wintertime interruption afloat of confidence, eagerly awaiting the Champions League quarter-final gully connected 7 February.

"We're each feeling truly affirmative arsenic a group," Russo said. "We person conscionable been moving truly hard. I cognize it sounds cliche but we truly have. With the players and unit we person got, I would ever backmost us."