Erin Cuthbert: Scotland and Chelsea midfielder “desperate” to get back to World Cup

With a ball at her feet, Cuthbert makes it all look so easy, and she’s got the silverware to support it. Since joining Chelsea aged 18, she’s won six league titles, three doubles and a treble. Before that move, she won two titles with Glasgow City and a Scottish treble in 2015.

She scored against Portugal in Euro 2017 and against Argentina two years later in the World Cup. Cuthbert has always been a big-moment player, but as she grows off the field, she does on it too. Maturing into a leadership role, the former Rangers youth player is admittedly “less rash” and revels in being a figurehead for the next generation.

“I can step outside my bubble and consider different things when I’m making decisions,” she said on the Behind the Goals podcast.

“I can guide the younger players coming in whereas when I was younger, I was just trying to find my way and form.

“Now, it’s me helping others find that and also consolidate my own performance because I also know I have so much to learn, I’m so young. I have no idea where my ceiling is yet and I want to do everything I can to at least get to that and know what I’m capable of.”