Emily Salley
BBC Sport at Emirates Stadium

Alessia Russo rounded off a fine win for Arsenal against Valerenga in the Women's Champions League in the team's first game since Jonas Eidevall resigned.

Arsenal looked reinvigorated under interim coach Renee Slegers, whose stint got off to a bright start when Emily Fox tapped home inside two minutes at Emirates Stadium.

The upturn in fortunes continued, with Caitlin Foord lashing the ball into the roof of the net from close range after Beth Mead's initial effort was saved.

Despite countless attacks forward, there were the same signs of carelessness in defence that have plagued Arsenal of late, and the Norwegian visitors clawed a goal back before the break through Olaug Tvedten as Laia Codina was caught out when trying to play out from the back.

However, summer signing Mariona Caldentey put the Gunners out of reach in the 85th minute with a powerful strike after being picked out with a clever pass from Stina Blackstenius.

Then England forward Russo, a bright spark throughout, completed victory when she slotted through the legs of Valerenga keeper Tove Enblom in stoppage time.

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With the lunchtime press conferences out of the way, let's take a look back on last night's action in the Women's Champions League...

Everton

Everton boss Sean Dyche on whether being England manager is the dream for a British coach: "I'm not sure "dream" is the right word for the England coach. It's a massively challenging job and changed over the years. At some point in your career, you'd like to have a look at but it's certainly not the right time for me.

"Eddie Howe was someone and rightly so but he may see it differently with what's going on at Newcastle. He was certainly one who I looked at and thought you could consider as the next England manager."

Everton

Everton boss Sean Dyche on whether Thomas Tuchel becoming England manager is disheartening for British coaches: "I don't think it's disheartening, I think it's a reality for the modern game. Every pathway doesn't lead to where you want it to.

"In theory, the idea was to get English coaches and fastback certain people through the system and manage the country but it's changed so much. All of us want to win and I think sometimes it gets lost in modern football. I don't think he'll be under an illusion as manager, he's been put in there to win.

"Gareth [Southgate] did an amazing job but he didn't win. The next step is trying to win something. Plenty of good managers have tried since 1966 and no one has done it."

Everton

Everton boss Sean Dyche on team news ahead of the trip to Ipswich: "Seamus [Coleman] is back in the group, he's had the week. Jarrad [Branthwaite] is a bit behind, he's been on the grass but he's behind."

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Everton

More from Everton boss Sean Dyche on the FA appointing Thomas Tuchel: "I can only imagine there's a big process to go through. They mentioned approximately 10. I don't know how it's approximately, I was quite intrigued by that. Out of the 10, I imagine there would have been some British coaches, but I certainly wasn't."

Everton

Everton boss Sean Dyche on Thomas Tuchel becoming the head coach of England: "I think most would have liked an English coach or that's the general feeling I get from the masses it seems. The game is diversifying all the time and he certainly has got a record that justifies him getting the job."

Howard Webb admitted that VAR failed to intervene when Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes was sent off against Tottenham last month.

"We released the audio, you can hear the assistant referee - who's got a good view of it - just saying 'that looks awful, 100% red [card] for me'," said Webb on the Stick to Football podcast, external.

"From his angle, it looked it because it looks like the studs have gone in. But then there's another angle shown on the replay on Sky Sports. Straight away I've gone 'that'll be an overturn', but it wasn't.

"I was frustrated that we didn't step in to rectify it because it was clearly wrong in my opinion. He slipped, he tried to trip him but it was the side of the foot and he didn't drive the studs in. If he had then it would have been a red card."

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Southampton

Southampton manager Russell Martin gave a more in-depth answer on the England manager situation and the decision not to appoint an English coach.

"What I would say is that I think there are loads of English coaches that are capable of doing the job. English managers - it's really difficult to get the opportunity to manage in the Premier League unless you take a team there a lot of the time.

"Maybe English managers aren't given enough credit or maybe they are deemed not good enough by the most important people. I hope at some point it will be really obvious that there is lots of English managers that are capable of doing it.

"In terms of him getting the job, I think he's a brilliant manager and will do a really good job but I think it will cause a lot of interesting discussion and conversation and especially at the FA because we have a well renowned coach education system that people come from far and wide to do but we can't appoint someone from that, so that's an interesting topic."

Referees' chief Howard Webb says there has been an 80% reduction in the number of video assistant referee (VAR) errors this season.

Webb - chief refereeing officer at Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) - has claimed that mistakes are down 80% this season.

"I don’t think we managed expectations well in terms of VAR," the former Premier League referee told the Stick to Football podcast, external.

"We knew it was always going to be a situation where it was going to do well on those clear situations, the ones where you think, 'that’s clearly wrong on first view'. We're good at spotting those most of the time.

"We have this independent panel which has got ex-players on it, and they judge each decision each week, and according to the panel - which is independent from us [PGMOL] - there has only been two VAR errors this season compared to 10 at the same time last year."

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Southampton

Southampton manager Russell Martin confirmed that Will Smallbone and Kamaldeen Sulemana are back fit and available but Ross Stewart will miss out through injury.

Martin added that Stewart's injury isn't long-term but is still a "frustrating" one for him.

West Ham United

West Ham manager Julen Lopetegui on whether he thinks English coaches are good enough to manage England: "I think that English coaches are very good, but you only have one to choose and the FA have chosen Thomas Tuchel. I don't have anything to add other than to congratulate him.

"Why they chose a non-foreign coach is not my decision. You have very good coaches in England, too, and Gareth Southgate did a very good job in my opinion."

West Ham United

West Ham manager Julen Lopetegui on Mohammed Kudus: "He's a good player and our player and we use him as we feel. He can improve on a lot of things like every player, but he is working hard and has very good commitment every day and we are happy with him for sure."

West Ham United

West Ham manager Julen Lopetegui on Tottenham: "I think Ange changed a lot of things in their team. In my opinion, he made their players and team better and that's why I like to see this team. They work together. But we have to put the focus on us and have an answer because we have to be on it to get the win.

"Our fans will demand the best from us and this is a good thing. They support us always, so we have to be ready to play well, be a strong and solid team and to beat them there. It's not easy, but we will try to do it."

West Ham United

West Ham manager Julen Lopetegui on new England boss Thomas Tuchel: "Congratulations to him. I think the pressure is with our job, no matter who you are managing because the pressure to win matches is the same.

"However, the difference is that you don't have your players all the time and you have to be ready to prepare them in a short period of time.

"But, I repeat, when you are managing, the pressure is there to win matches and that's the same, whether you are managing a club or country."

Southampton

Southampton manager Russell Martin on lack of clean-sheets and goals scored: "We should score more goals. We've missed the third or fourth most chances in the league. We should have a clean-sheet or two but we don't.

"We have to keep doing the right things and trusting each other that it will come. You have to trust if you do that it will come good so I have no doubt at some point it will. When it does, we will have earned it and deserved it."

West Ham United

West Ham manager Julen Lopetegui on team news: "Yes it is true that we have a lot of players in a lot of countries and right now we don't have a lot of players here, I am going to see the players today and tomorrow, so until the last moment we are not going to be together, It's always a difficulty to prepare for the matches. But I think this one, a lot of things happened, not only with us so we have to manage this and handle [it] and to be able to be ready for the next match."

On Niclas Fullkrug: "I think Fullkrug is out, He initially thought he had one non-important injury, but he has had complications and we are waiting to recover him.

"We thought he would be out for a maximum of two weeks, but right now he is out and I don't say anything about how long he will be out. We will see."