United Women hit 10 in Olid's first win

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United Women beat Sheffield United 10-1 for Eva Olid's first win

United Women beat Sheffield United 10-1, delivering Eva Olid her first win in charge after two defeats and a draw at Arsenal to open her tenure. Six players scored: Bernal twice, Griffiths three times, Schüller twice, Toone once and Simpson once, with Le Tissier converting an early penalty. Sheffield's only reply came from Andrews. Olid made seven changes from Saturday's draw, and four of the players who kept their places started again.

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The Briefing

From the Archive

09-24 · 2002

2-1 v Bayer Leverkusen

United beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 away in the Champions League. Van Nistelrooy scored twice. Attendance 22,500.

Van Nistelrooy's two goals away at Leverkusen came from a squad built to let its forward line settle the tightest nights. Everything around him, formation, manager, ownership, has changed since, but the equation he proved that night, that strikers can win matches other departments cannot, is the same one facing this squad against Tottenham on 10 October.

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Laurie Whitwell

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Laurie Whitwell covers United for The Athletic and produces more of what lands in this newsletter than anyone else on our list: 363 attributions across 283 distinct stories in the past 30 days. That volume would be unremarkable if it came padded out, but his bylines are also the ones other outlets tend to follow rather than lead. He is not a transfer confirmer in the Ornstein mould; he is the reporter for the day-to-day detail, training-ground mood, the accounts, the stuff that fills the gaps between deals. Read him for structured volume, not for scoops.

Club Pulse

Ownership sours further on the published accounts, women's football surges on a rout, and the manager, first team and academy layers stay quiet, too thin this window to read.

Fan Voice

Supporters spent the night praising Eva Olid's start and, more than once, wondering aloud, half-joking, why the comparison with the men's side kept writing itself unprompted.

Eva Olid looking like the anti-Skinner at this point. Youth, courage, success!

@like_a_toad, sentiment positive

The men’s team need to start taking notes.

@Luxboii, sentiment neutral

Player in Focus

Jess Simpson

4 mentions on the day's count, sentiment positive, trend rising.

Jess Simpson's line from Wednesday, a goal and two assists in only her second senior appearance, is the loudest single data point in the squad file, but four mentions is still a thin base after one match. The corner she swung in for her own goal beat nobody by accident, and the pass that set up Bernal did the same job twice. Call it promising, not proven.

Scored straight from a corner and made two more, in what the club called only her second appearance at senior level.

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Loan Watch

The summer's outward business is complete across the board: Collyer at West Brom, Moorhouse at Dundee, Murdock at Hednesford, Obi at Willem II, Gore at Luton, Malard at Chelsea, Biancheri at Wacker Innsbruck and Naalsund at Birmingham, every move filed as departed rather than in progress.