Emma Hayes’ side remain unbeaten in 2021 and Carter believes the Blues are in a good place despite not being able to score a goal against the Gunners.

Speaking after the game, Carter said: ‘I didn’t feel like we were going to concede, I know they put balls into the box but we put our bodies on the line for everything and at no point did I feel we were going to concede. If anything I thought we’d grab one on the counter.

‘In the first half they had much better quality than us, in my opinion they were the much better side in the first half, but for us it's just our defensive mentality of we’re not losing this game. Regardless of what’s happening we’re not losing this game and that’s something we’ve got an advantage of over some teams at the moment.’

When asked what Emma Hayes had said to the team at half-time, Carter explained it was a simple message.

‘Wake up! It was just as simple as that.

‘Everything was slow, we were pressing slow, moving slow, everything we just a bit meh. So it was literally just wake up and that was it and I think hopefully we came out and showed in the second half that we woke up and arrived at the game eventually.’

It’s six games unbeaten for the Blues so far in 2022, winning four of our last five competitive games. As we head into the international break, Carter says the team will be taking the positivity of the clean sheet into the next run of fixtures.

‘The clean sheet, the work that we did to keep that to get that point. Going forward we’ll have to figure out how we can be better going forward from all of us, it’s not just our forward players it’s us all over the pitch, what we can do better to break down oppositions, to get that goal.’

The Blues’ aren’t back in action until Saturday 26 February when we host Leicester City at Kingsmeadow in the fifth round of the Vitality Women’s FA Cup. Tickets can be purchased here.