Women’s national team players Oona Siren and Milla-Maj Majasaari made their club team debuts in England.
Jaakko Servo,
Hinn Hirvonen
Two Finnish players made their debut in the English Women’s League Cup last night, while the midfielder Oona Siren was in the starting line-up for West Ham United and Milla-Maj Majasaari on the other hand, in the Crystal Palace goal.
Siren, who made his debut in West Ham’s starting line-up, revealed to Urheilu that he was a little nervous about his debut.
– I was a little nervous. It was really nice to get minutes. There was good in my own performance, but also a lot to improve. I still have to get used to the new way of playing and my teammates.
In the league cup match, West Ham defeated Portsmouth, who played below the league level, with a crushing score of 6–1. Siren got playing time in West Ham’s midfield for the full 90 minutes.
Siren moved to the English Premier League and the West Ham team in September from Norwegian Lilleström SK on a two-year contract.
– The work here (in England) has been really professional. We have a really tough team and the competition for playing time is tough. Yes, this is definitely a place where I develop as a player.
– Yes, the game here is more physical and faster than in Norway. It seems that in this series all the teams are of equal quality. The difference between the weaker teams and the top teams is only that the top teams use their opportunities even more efficiently, Siren emphasized.
Loss to Majasaari Palace
Crystal Palace, represented by Milla-Maj Majasaari, did not play as well as West Ham in the opening round of the league cup. The team lost their match to Aston Villa 2–0.
Majasaari, who moved to England from Belgium and Anderlecht last month, played the full 90 minutes in the match with his team’s goal.
The Finnish national team goalkeeper said earlier For the football associationthat he has been received excellently in the new team.
– I have been received incredibly well. The club’s facilities are excellent, and the players have everything they could wish for. I’ve been dreaming of this kind of environment for a long time – sometimes it’s been hard to believe that I’m actually here.
The striker who has represented Leicester since 2023 Jutta Rantala was substituted in the league cup match against Bristol after the 58th minute of the game. In the match, Leicester unexpectedly lost to Bristol, which plays lower in the league, after penalty kicks 1–2.