Having finished fifth last season, Tottenham are hoping to break into the WSL’s top three and qualify for the Women’s Champions League.<\/p>\n
As well as Hanson, they have signed West Ham’s top-scorer Shekiera Martinez, talented France defender Alice Sombath from Lyon and creative midfielder Victoria Pelova from rivals Arsenal this summer.<\/p>\n
It means there will be fierce competition for a place in the starting XI – something Hanson is relishing.<\/p>\n
“I’m definitely comfortable [in the WSL] now but I still don’t see myself as one of the best. I’m very critical of myself,” she said. <\/p>\n
“It’s going to be tough. I’m not expecting anything. My main aim is just to be better because I’ve got so many levels to go to. Martin knows that as well. <\/p>\n
“I knew the level of players that were here. I’m just so excited to learn from them. I’m also here to help others, because that’s what I’ve done at every club.<\/p>\n
“I might not be the most talented but I’ve got a lot of fight and hunger in me. I literally run through a brick wall for my team. Hopefully I’ve showed them that.”<\/p>\n
Hanson’s quality is unquestionable. Last season, she netted 43% of Villa’s total goals and had the best shots on target ratio (50%) of the top-five goalscorers in the league.<\/p>\n
She not only scored the bulk of Villa’s goals, but only two team-mates created more chances than Hanson’s 16 – and she had the most touches in the opposition box.<\/p>\n
Her work-rate was evident too, as Hanson ranked among the top performers in her position in most defensive actions including tackling and interceptions.<\/p>\n
The Scotland forward says she has also matured off the pitch and has a degree in sports coaching she hopes to put to good use. <\/p>\n
Asked about where specifically she has developed, Hanson said: “I know what to do at different points in the game. I know how to calm players down.<\/p>\n
“Previously when I worked with Martin, I was younger and I wouldn’t have been able to cope with that as much. But now I’ve definitely matured a lot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having finished fifth last season, Tottenham are hoping to break into the WSL’s top three and qualify for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}