How Wubben-Moy produced best season of her career

21 May 2024 There was a turning point in Lotte Wubben-Moy’s career where she realised she needed to improve. The Arsenal defender did not play a single minute in England’s successful Euro 2022 campaign and despite coming away from the tournament with a winner’s medal, Wubben-Moy wanted more. “I looked at a team that had just dominated Europe,” she told BBC Sport. “I said to myself ‘we are talented and if I’m going to try and keep up with this group of players, I have to do something different’. “I would say it took me about a year to figure that out and place myself in that mix. I looked at my approach to the season after and asked myself what I needed to do to get to that top level. “I wanted to do more analysis and look at my games from a different perspective and not just the emotional side. I needed a team around me who could support me physically and mentally.” And so the changes began. Now, two years on, Wubben-Moy has established herself as one of the most consistent defenders in the Women’s Super League after a standout campaign. She has featured more regularly for England, having also played a role in their journey to the Women’s World Cup final in 2023, and will link-up with them again in July when she recovers from a foot injury picked up at the end of the season. “I made small changes with things like yoga and I do more relaxation methods,” she said. “I wanted to pinpoint myself as one of the best centre-backs in the league and force myself into the England team. “That was something that two years ago I might not have thought was possible but it’s been such a conscious thing that I kind of knew it would happen.”