Teenage striker Michelle Agyemang has been backed to to seek out the power to succeed in her potential “for sure” regardless of rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

The 19-year-old will miss the remainder of the season after struggling the damage because the Lionesses beat Australia 3-0 in Tuesday’s pleasant.

Agyemang was as a shock inclusion in Sarina Wiegman’s squad for Euro 2025 in the summertime, however scored essential objectives in each the quarter-finals and semi-finals as they efficiently defended their European title.

The Arsenal ahead began this season properly on mortgage at Brighton, whose supervisor Dario Vidosic mentioned on Friday: “It is not simply us which might be heartbroken however the entire nation, seeing her go down in that sport, I believe all of us held our breath.

“There aren’t any phrases, it is a robust one. I spoke to her as we speak and she or he mentioned she is OK, she feels good.

“She is a really switched-on child so her thoughts is already set on it (restoration), that is the spectacular factor about her that possibly not everybody will get to see.

“It is an opportunity to enhance. We’ll hold her engaged and studying, if not bodily. We will nonetheless hold her thoughts rising and studying as a younger participant.

“She nonetheless has a whole lot of potential that we had been seeing every week, she was rising by way of the expertise of enjoying and arising towards robust opponents.

“Now we’ll discover one other means to do this off the pitch. We’ll assist her mentally in order that when she comes again it is going to be like she hasn’t missed a beat.”

Having suffered two ACL accidents herself throughout her enjoying profession, Arsenal supervisor Renee Slegers is aware of what Agyemang goes by way of.

“It is a very unhappy time,” she added. “When these moments occur it is horrible as a result of you already know that it’ll hold them away from the sport for a very long time.

“Michelle has been doing so properly, she was in a very good place. The timing of this is not nice, though it is by no means an excellent time.

“However Michelle may be very robust, she’s younger, she could have the power to come back again and we’ll do every thing we will to assist her.”