In this second part of our look at Aston Villa Women, who have been promoted to the WSL following Liverpool Women’s relegation, we will look at their attack, focusing on the tactics they use in it. This scout report will look at how they create shooting options, how they use their full-backs high up the pitch, how they keep their wingers wide to ensure they control the channels, and how their front three work together, with all helping them to finish top of the Women’s Championship before it was ended prematurely.
Creating options
Firstly, in this tactical analysis, we will look at how they create options to shoot at goal from.

Here, in the game against Leicester City Women, you can see how the ball has been taken wide by the Aston Villa player in possession, which has forced the Leicester defenders wide as well. The space that has been created in the foreground is now being occupied by another Aston Villa player.
This situation comes because of Aston Villa’s tactics in attack. Despite playing with a lone striker in former Leicester striker Melissa Johnson, they tend to allow their wingers and midfielders to also get forward and use spaces to create passing options, which is what we are seeing here.






