The primary worldwide break of the 2026/27 ladies’s season is upon us which supplies us an opportunity to take inventory of the Girls’s Tremendous League. With 5 video games performed up to now and off the again of a 6-1 thrashing away to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday we’ve to ask, are London Metropolis Lionesses Metropolis Lionesses now prepared for a title problem?
After London Metropolis Lionesses ended the 2025/26 sixth, the place they misplaced 11 instances and completed 29 factors off the title winners, Eder Maestre‘s group are at the moment wanting massively improved this season, and have already handily dispatched two of the groups that completed forward them final marketing campaign – Manchester United and Spurs.
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Now, 5 video games into the brand new marketing campaign, London Metropolis sit simply three factors off the highest spot.
Massive transfers having immediate influence
After all, London Metropolis Lionesses are on this place after heavy funding from billionaire Michele Kang.
Final summer time, promotion from the Championship (now often known as WSL 2) noticed the group bringing in 17 new gamers, earlier than an extra two arrived within the winter window. Unsurprisingly, the group did not gel immediately which price promotion-winning supervisor Jocelyn Prêcheur his job in December with Spaniard Maestre becoming a member of early into 2026.
To construct on that, eight new arrivals got here this summer time (in order that’s 27 new gamers in whole since arriving within the prime flight) however they included some far larger names: Mary Earps, Kadidiatou Diani, Rosa Kafaji, Mapi León, and, in fact, Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas.
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Becoming a member of a group that had a 12 months to settle, new arrivals are already making a giant distinction. Diani, who was acquired after what have been little question intense and gruelling negotiations with sister membership OL Lyonnes, has 5 objective involvements (two targets, three assists) in simply three video games. Certainly, Diani joins Signe Gaupset of Tottenham as the one participant to succeed in three assists up to now.
The defensive ranks have been bolstered by León, with solely three gamers having extra interceptions (11) than the Spaniard who additionally ranks joint-third for crosses (29).
Then there’s Putellas who, after just a few video games getting used to soccer England, is now exhibiting her true class. The 32-year-old has 4 objective involvements in her final 4 video games; an help in opposition to Charlton Athletic, a primary objective for London Metropolis at house to Brighton, earlier than then bagging a brace within the thrashing of Spurs. A Putellas who has discovered her ft within the WSL is a scary prospect for the remainder of the division.
Beneficiant schedule
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If the 2025/26 season taught us something, it is {that a} lighter schedule within the WSL works wonders. Manchester Metropolis confirmed effectivity in having full deal with the league whereas crosstown rivals United struggled with added Champions League soccer that noticed their league kind nosedive in the direction of the top of the season.
London Metropolis in the meantime have solely the Gamers Cup to fret about, permitting Maestre to rotate his massive squad, with no participant having began all seven video games for the membership in all competitions this season.
The likes of Earps, Kafaji, Elena Linari, Nikita Parris, and Isobel Goodwin have been given an opportunity to shine in that competitors however there are many golf equipment within the WSL who would like to have that sort of high quality of their squad for each recreation.
In a approach, a lighter schedule for London Metropolis Lionesses may imply that this 12 months is their finest probability to win the WSL. Manchester Metropolis, Chelsea, and already-adrift Arsenal have Champions League soccer to fret about.
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Nevertheless, ought to London Metropolis sustain their present kind, they will be becoming a member of the European elite as properly (one thing that will properly problem Kang’s multi-club possession mannequin) after which they will uncover simply how tough it’s to battle within the WSL and in opposition to Europe’s elite.