{"id":14442,"date":"2026-05-02T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=14442"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:50:46","slug":"stina-blackstenius-arsenal-striker-quietly-making-a-big-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=14442","title":{"rendered":"Stina Blackstenius: Arsenal striker quietly making a big noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That is second again only to Shaw, but given the Jamaica striker has scored more than double the number of goals, she probably has more credit in the bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It could be why Blackstenius is sometimes reduced to a bit-part role at Emirates Stadium &#8211; or perhaps it is the standard of competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After all, she is up against one of the best strikers in the world in Russo, England heroes Chloe Kelly and Beth Mead, \u00a31m Canada winger Olivia Smith and Arsenal stalwart Caitlin Foord for a starting spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not that the former Linkoping, Montpellier and BK Hacken forward is complaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;We have so much quality in this team and we are a really good group that wants to support each other. I feel safe in this group and I know my team-mates have my back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This club feels a lot like home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has also been the home of the Champions League trophy for the past year. If they avoid defeat against eight-time winners Lyon, Arsenal will have the chance of notable back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is second again only to Shaw, but given the Jamaica striker has scored more than double the number of goals, she probably has more credit in the bank. It could be why Blackstenius is sometimes reduced to a bit-part role at Emirates Stadium &#8211; or perhaps it is the standard of competition. After all,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}