Arsenal Forward Blackstenius Signs New Contract

Arsenal guardant Stina Blackstenius has signed a caller two-year statement pinch nan club.

The 30-year-old, who joined from Swedish broadside BK Hacken successful 2022, has scored 64 goals successful 152 games for Arsenal successful each competitions.

This season, she has 7 goals and 3 assists successful 15 Women's Super League matches - and besides netted successful nan Champions League quarter-final triumph complete Chelsea.

Blackstenius has gained a estimation for being 1 of Arsenal's astir effective players disconnected nan chair and scored nan precocious victor successful past season's Champions League last triumph complete Barcelona.

The Sweden striker besides deed an extra-time extremity against Chelsea to clinch nan Women's League Cup trophy successful 2024 and a precocious victor against Manchester City successful nan semi-finals successful 2023.

She has started six WSL games this season, forming a beardown business pinch England guardant Alessia Russo, for nan third-placed Gunners - who are 2 points down Chelsea successful 2nd pinch 2 games successful hand.

Club sources opportunity she provides a different threat to Russo and it was truthful a privilege for them to work together a caller woody pinch Blackstenius earlier nan summer.

As good arsenic a useful wont of scoring successful large moments, she is weighted astatine Arsenal for her publication disconnected nan shot and expertise to create abstraction for others.

Blackstenius has won 4 awesome trophies pinch Arsenal - nan Champions League, Champions Cup and 2 League Cups.

She besides vanished arsenic nan club's apical scorer successful nan 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons.

At world level, Blackstenius helped Sweden triumph Olympic metallic medals successful 2016 and 2020, arsenic good arsenic finishing 3rd astatine nan 2019 and 2023 World Cups.

The Gunners presently beryllium 3rd successful nan WSL and look record-winners Lyon successful nan Champions League semi-finals connected Sunday (15:30 BST).