Manchester United Women have had a disappointing end to the season.
Season decline
Marc Skinner’s side spent most of the season in second place in the league and reached their first ever League Cup final in March.
Sadly, they lost 0-2 to Chelsea and were also knocked out of the FA Cup by the same opponents.
United also made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Bayern Munich but lost bravely to the Bavarians.
The Red Devils have also fallen out of the Champions League spots for next season and would need Arsenal to drop a miraculous number of points between now and the end of the season to have a sniff of finishing in the top three.
Melvine Malard
One player who has not stopped performing in the last months of the season is French star Melvine Malard.
The club’s official website has reported, “Melvine Malard has been named Manchester United Women’s Player of the Month for April.”
The site continues to explain that, “the French forward was picked by the majority of supporters voting in the United App poll, for her efforts during the team’s two matches across the month, away to Bayern Munich and Tottenham Hotspur.”
She received a solid 50% of the vote, with goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce receiving 31% of the vote and Canadian full back Jayde Riviere, 19%.
Malard scored United’s only goal in the Allianz Arena after pouncing on a big mistake by the Bayern defence to give United the lead and hope of making it through to the final four before that was dashed by two late goals.
The award has been won four times by Jess Park this season, twice by Elisabeth Terland, and once by Phallon Tullis-Joyce and Maya Le Tissier.
Malard will likely be in action for the final time this season when United travel to London on Saturday afternoon to face Chelsea in the last Women’s Super League match of the season.
Melvine Malard WSL 25/26 stats
| Games played | Goals | Assists | Mins played |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 6 | 3 | 1431 |
Source: Fotmob.com
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