Tobin Heath made her Arsenal debut with a late cameo off the bench because the Gunners ran riot towards Manchester Metropolis to additional bolster their place atop the Girls’s Tremendous League.

A Kim Little double proved the centrepiece of a 5-0 victory at Meadow Park, as Jonas Eidevall’s facet made it three wins from three to maintain their excellent begin to the brand new season intact.

Vivianne Miedema, Katie McCabe and Leah Williamson additionally scored, whereas U.S. nationwide staff star Heath’s late look could have additionally thrilled Gunners supporters.

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With Arsenal 4-0 up and cruising to victory, two-time World Cup winner Heath got here on for fellow striker Beth Mead within the 86th minute.

The 33-year-old — a childhood Gunners fan who hung out final time period with Manchester United — then performed out the remaining 9 minutes of the match.

Though she didn’t handle to seek out the goal herself, she was available to rejoice Williamson’s effort late in damage time which added a ultimate contact of gloss for the hosts.

“I am an enormous Arsenal fan. It was my first childhood membership that I actually adopted and fell in love with at a younger age,” Heath informed media whereas on the current USWNT camp (video beneath). “Clearly, they’ve an unbelievable historical past on the ladies’s facet as properly that I look ahead to being part of.

“I used to be interested in the syle of play, to the sure gamers that have been taking part in there. And your old flame of a membership is one thing that’s unchanging and unwavering by all of it,” she continued. “In case you take a look at the ladies’s facet of issues, within the panorama of European soccer, they have been on the forefront of girls’s soccer, making a staff, investing in a staff and profitable each the home league and Champions League. It is a membership that is simple to be enthusiastic about and is basically deep in my coronary heart and in my historical past of soccer.”

Eidevall hails star’s ‘ambition’

Talking after the match, Eidevall was fast to reward Heath for her dedication following a fast turnaround that solely noticed her arrive within the nation on the finish of the week.

“It is clearly been [three] intense days for her,” he acknowledged. “She landed on Friday, she did one session Saturday and she or he was on the pitch right here now on Sunday.

“It is a lengthy [trip] from the U.S. to right here, so I believe she has managed it extraordinarily properly. She was very a lot centered on trying ahead to making an attempt to get minutes right here in the present day.

“I at all times love when the gamers have that ambition. Hopefully we will add some extra coaching time and get her settled in much more.”

Heath’s debut comes after she performed sparingly within the USWNT’s current friendlies towards Paraguay — however with additional minutes prone to come, she’s going to hope to function for each membership and nation.

With Arsenal, she’s going to purpose to again up her fame because the signing of the offseason within the WSL, because the Gunners go in quest of additional silverware

Together with her nation, she’s going to hope to determine of their upcoming friendlies with South Korea, scheduled for the tip of October.