![]() What Kirby has had to overcome in terms of her injuries and illness, and to come back as strong as she has, is one of the reasons why I've chosen her. ![]() Manchester City and USA stars Sam Mewis and Rose Lavelle guess Manchester slang Kelly and Lauren Hemp have been brilliant young players this season too. But I see the impact Eriksson has on the whole team. Kirby has been unbelievable and probably will win it. When she wasn't in the team, Chelsea were not the same. The reason I've picked Eriksson is that while goals win you games, clean sheets win you titles. She has an unbelievable winning mentality, her positional intelligence is very good, she mops up and covers very well and I think her organisational and motivational skills are very good. ![]() She is quick, strong and good in the air. She is left-footed and left-sided, which is rare. I played with Magdalena Eriksson and people may have only seen just how impactful she is in those two games that she missed for Chelsea against Manchester City and Bayern Munich. I thought about Kerr, Mewis and obviously Kirby but - and it pains me to say it as an attacking player - I'm going to pick defenders in both the men's and the women's categories this year. I'd usually skirt around some of the other options but ultimately I think Kirby is the way-out winner. It's been a delight watching her make her comeback and be the best player in the league. Kirby has been the WSL's best player on merit, which is incredible when you consider that 18 months ago she wasn't fit enough to climb the stairs due to pericarditis. It rightfully took Kerr some time to settle into the team but it's been Kirby who has brought the best out of the Australian and can take a lot of the credit for Kerr's Golden Boot award. Kirby has 16 goals and 11 assists in the WSL this season - only Kerr, with 28, has more goal contributions in that competition, and their partnership is a huge reason why Chelsea have been so dominant this season. She is coming into her prime at 27 and is making up for lost time after a long spell on the sidelines last season. Kirby not only fought her way into the Chelsea team, she has been their star player. I remember there was even talk of her being sold to make way for Chelsea's new-look attack. When Chelsea brought Kerr, then added Pernille Harder last summer, many assumed - me included - that Kirby, who missed the majority of the 2019-20 season with a virus, would have to accept secondary status at Chelsea. She has been clinical in front of goal and her partnership with Kerr has been very impressive. The Associated Press contributed to this report.Kirby has been the difference between Chelsea and Manchester City. ![]() That is that that is absolutely not something we're going to forget about. "It's not unlike what we had to do in Ukraine when we've evacuated the embassy temporarily and in the early weeks and months of the fighting and then put them back in, we fully intend to get that embassy back up and running, get those personnel back on the ground in Khartoum so that we can continue to look after the long term relationship and then the long term needs of the Sudanese people. But we still have an ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, and he's done a great job, and he's going to continue to do his duties from outside the country," Kirby said. We're simply moving the embassy personnel out of the country. "I just want to stress that we've suspended operations at the embassy, but we have not dismantled our diplomatic relations or the mechanisms to conduct diplomatic relations with Sudan. remained focused on getting the ceasefire extended for a "meaningful period of time" and eventually get the fighting factions to "start to talk about a transition to civilian authority," noting the more immediate needs of the Sudanese people and foreign nationals that are in and around Khartoum. The two rival generals, army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan and RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, have so far ignored calls for negotiations. A series of short cease-fires the past week have either failed outright or brought only intermittent lulls that allowed evacuations of hundreds of foreigners by air and land. Many fear that fighting will only escalate once evacuations of foreigners, which appeared to be in their last stages, are completed. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to last until late Thursday night. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Maria A. Embassy in Sudan embrace as they evacuate to Camp Lemonnier on Apin Djibouti.
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