Netherlands captain Dominique Janssen admits her Ireland counterpart can be \u2018nasty\u2019 but has tipped her to be a hit at Chelsea.<\/p>\n
Janssen was a teammate of McCabe during the early stage of her spell at Arsenal, which has this week ended after a decade by her move to deadly rivals Chelsea.<\/p>\n
Friday evening sees the ex-colleague renew acquaintances at Pairc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n
Just two points divide them in the table and both nations in the hunt for direct World Cup qualification with two games remaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would describe Katie as a winner, someone who does everything for her team to get a result,\u201d said the veteran Manchester United centre-back.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes she can be nasty but you need that in football. People don\u2019t like playing against her but I\u2019m curious to see how the move to Chelsea goes because the journey is exciting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a few years since I played on her Arsenal team but she\u2019s developed a lot in her leadership skills. I hadn\u2019t seen that but have as Ireland captain and being a big part of Arsenal\u2019s successes. She\u2019ll be a big player for Chelsea.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ireland boss Carla Ward has narrowed the pitch in an attempt to stifle the impact of the Dutch dangerous wingers Esmee Brugts (Barcelona) and Lineth Beerensteyn (Wolfsburg) but the visiting manager feels their quality can be decisive. It took a late goal by Beerensteyn eight weeks to clinch a 2-1 win in Utrecht.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s easy to say that we can win two games,\u201d said manager Arjan Veurink, installed after last year\u2019s disappointing Euro group stage exit.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think we\u2019ve gained a good bit from our the process so far. We’ve always focused on us, our style of play and our development.<\/p>\n
Janssen added: \u201cSince Arjen has been the head coach of the national team, we’ve been in the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has a clear way of how he wants to improve us and I think that every window that we are together, we are making steps.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can just tell in training that it’s just getting better and better. So I hope tomorrow we can again, you know, have a good plan and execute it properly.<\/p>\n
And, of course, we want to get the three points tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netherlands captain Dominique Janssen admits her Ireland counterpart can be \u2018nasty\u2019 but has tipped her to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,18998,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-483986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-wnt","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}