Inside Story of Man Utd Women day before Champions League tie away to Brann | 10 Sept 2025
Phallon Tullis-Joyce was the first out and swiftly followed by the rest of the squad, including our duo of former Brann players, Lisa Naalsund and Elisabeth Terland, who enjoyed the stroll out to practice while doing a quick ‘walk-and-talk’ interview to preview their return to familiar territory. While waiting for Lisa to come out, Elisabeth was inquisitive about our media team’s record of previous visits to her home country and provided a few recommendations that I’m sure we’ll take her up on should we get time before the game on Thursday.
The pair then made their way across to join up with the group, who were huddled together before the start by Skinner for a special presentation. Summer signings Julia Zigioitti Olme and Jess Park were both reunited with the shirts that they made their WSL debuts for the club in at the weekend, now adorning their team-mates’ signatures.
It was a nice touch, with the players also notably wearing their training tops inside out as a respectful mark of awareness for it being World Suicide Prevention Day.
The session began with some quick running drills and changes of direction through poles to get warmed up, while the players narrowly avoided that sprinklers watering the nearby pitches. Our cameraman Noel unfortunately wasn’t so lucky, getting a quick drenching as he admirably held in there to capture some close-up footage.
A series of small-sided ‘rondos’ followed, while away from the outfield group, new goalkeeping coach Joe Potts got to work with the keepers on another area of the training pitches.
The coaches’ drone flying up high to capture the more tactical details of the session was our cue in the media team to turn cameras off and head inside, but even in just a quarter of an hour there is so much expertise, skill and quality on show that is a real privilege to witness first hand.
