Jonas Eidevall believes Arsenal’s upcoming Women’s Champions League clash against Lyon will be a “reality check” for his side.

Arsenal are currently unbeaten in this season’s Women’s Super League after three matches, having scored nine goals and not conceded any so far in the campaign.

Beth Mead was also on Monday named the runner-up for the women’s Ballon d’Or after her impressive performances for club and country in the past year.

Despite Arsenal’s prolific league form, Eidevall expects a very different match against the current Champions League holders.

“It’s a very good reality check to see where we are at at the moment and that is always very exciting to see because no matter what (happens) tomorrow we know exactly where we are at and what we need to continue to improve and what we are already good at so I’m really looking forward to it,” the Swedish manager said.

He added: “This game I think will be very different than for example the game against Reading. We have to expect that we will be in control for some parts of the game but so will Lyon.

“We need to deal with facing more shots on target than we have been doing recently, facing more set-pieces than recently so the game is very different to the games that we will be playing in the league.”

In last year’s group stage, Arsenal were thrashed by Barcelona, losing 4-0 at home and then 4-1 away, but managed to qualify from their group only to go out in the next round against Wolfsburg.

Caitlin Foord believes the club has learned from their experiences last year, but believes Lyon could be even tougher opponents than Barcelona.

She said: “I think we had a lot of learnings from those games and I’ve looked at those games a lot as well leading into the big games and I think it purely comes down to us, I think we have to be up for the challenge and we have to be ready for these games.

“I think because of those previous games that we’ve had we’ve obviously seen that now and we don’t want that to happen again and we’ve improved and learnt where we went wrong in those games.

“So this game tomorrow will be a big challenge for us to see how far we’ve come.”

She added: “It’s going to be a huge game. For us I think it will be the biggest challenge we’ve faced yet so obviously if we can get a win there and a good performance it will be massive for us moving forward and obviously to kick off the Champions League with a win.”