Arsenal qualified for the final of the Conti Cup to set up a meeting with Chelsea, after beating Manchester City 2-1 at Meadow Park on Wednesday thanks to goals from Vivianne Miedema and Danielle van de Donk. Tim Stillman caught up with Jill Roord after the game exclusively for Arseblog News.

On qualifying for the final….

We’re delighted to be in the final, my first one in England. We want to win everything, so it was a very important game for us tonight. I’m very happy!

On getting a second goal just before half-time…

I think we controlled the whole game I would say, but definitely the first half. We had a lot of possession of the ball but we could have scored more goals and in the second half we had chances too, but we controlled the game and we won, so that’s the most important thing.

On Joe Montemurro’s message at half-time…

Just to keep going, we knew that in the second half City would come out at us a bit more, especially in the first 10-15 minutes of the half. So he told us to stay focused and make sure we keep control in the first 10-15 minutes of the half and not to take any risks and I think we did that really well.

On conceding immediately after Manu Zinsberger’s penalty save…

Maybe we just switched off a little when we shouldn’t have. Manu made a very important save and then immediately they score from the corner. We probably just dropped our focus a bit and that was stupid.

On playing Chelsea in the final…

That wasn’t us a few weeks ago [when Chelsea won 4-1 at Meadow Park] that wasn’t Arsenal, so we’ve got the chance to show a better performance and it’s a final and it’s going to be a different game. It’s good to play against Chelsea and it will be a cool game for people to watch.

On whether this victory will have any impact on the WSL game between the teams on Sunday…

I don’t know but we’ve got a good feeling now, we feel confident for Sunday after this performance.