Arsenal Women kept their WSL titles hopes alive with a win over Liverpool at Chester FC’s 1885 Stadium on Thursday evening thanks to a Vivianne Miedema double. Tim Stillman caught up with the Dutch striker exclusively for Arseblog News.

On whether she was worried about her WSL goal drought (4 games prior to tonight)…

Not really, I am more worried about how I am physically right now. We struggled as a team tonight but I struggled as well, but I’m happy that I could play tonight and happy I could help the team, we just need to keep going. I’ve got a sore back at the moment and I can’t really do anything about it, hopefully if will solve itself soon. It doesn’t help with the pitches that we are playing on sometimes, but today it was all ok.

On a chaotic game…

We made it really hard for ourselves in the first half, we didn’t play our football and Liverpool did a good job, they had two good chances and finished them both. After half-time we felt one goal would be enough and it was today, but I think we were quite lucky to get the three points.

On Liverpool’s organisation…

You can see tonight they are really well organised defensively and we knew that. In the first half we didn’t really switch the ball enough and in the second half we put more crosses in and you could see we were creating the chances. In the end I don’t really care how we win the game if it’s 5-4 or 1-0 I’m just happy we got the points.

On what Joe said at half-time…

Do you really want to know?! He was upset with the way we played, but we all were so we knew that, we needed a 180 degree turn in the second half. We controlled the game better, but it still wasn’t up to our standards. On Sunday and next week against Reading we need to up our game, we know that.

On the final 20 minutes of the game…

You start playing against the time and there is a big clock behind the goal here, so we couldn’t help looking at it. But we thought we would create a big chance and luckily we did and we scored.

On the cross from Leonie Maier for the winner…

I am always complaining that we don’t put enough crosses on my head so I knew I had to score when it came to me otherwise everyone would have been pissed off at me!

On staying in the WSL title race…

We have to win every game, I think if we win every game we will get in the Champions League at least, but we know we have to hope for Chelsea or Manchester City to slip up.

On the team’s character…

We have lots of injuries at the moment and we knew we had to come out in the second half and really work for each other and that we did that tells you a lot about where we are as a team. I think we need to ask the FA if we can play 7 v 7 on Sunday though!