Chelsea's Champions League response vs. Paris FC is just what Bompastor & Co. needed

LONDON -- Chelsea yet showed their champion aft a drawstring of lackluster performances with a 4-0 victory implicit Paris FC to boost their assurance up of the planetary break.

It is simply a effect that has travel astatine the champion clip for Chelsea. It is comic to say, but things looked alternatively bleak heading into the UEFA Women's Champions League clash with Paris FC, fixed they had points connected the array successful the contention -- lone 1 pursuing a 1-1 gully with Twente -- and comfortably astatine the apical of the Women's Super League array by a point. But it was their performances and debased scoring that were puzzling fans.

Several mediocre results -- a 1-0 win implicit Tottenham Hotspur, 1-1 draw with Manchester United and 1-0 win implicit Leicester City -- has plagued them this play contempt boasting 1 of the champion attacks successful Europe.

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The squad were successful a rut, failing to person their chances and looking complacent successful the last third. Against Spurs, they failed to person 24 of their 25 chances and adjacent broke the league grounds for touches successful an absorption box, yet fell abbreviated of adding to the people line.

Manager Sonia Bompastor admitted she was beardown with her players aft a tally of performances that she deemed were not up to their mean standard. Though she says she is with them and volition backmost them, she besides knows erstwhile to request more.

"I'm idiosyncratic who is rather nonstop and honorable and unfastened with my players, truthful I volition ever support them present successful this room, but erstwhile I person to analyse the crippled and I deliberation possibly we don't execute astatine our role, I'm rather nonstop and honorable with them," she said, asking what caused the turnaround.

"I'm truly pleased with the absorption we showed connected the transportation from, arsenic I said, the past 2 games. I deliberation successful some games, we were a amended team. We created a lot. We couldn't people much than 1 extremity astatine the weekend, but astatine slightest we created a batch of chances, and I deliberation if we enactment astatine that level, we'll beryllium the amended spot successful the future.

"The lone happening we tin bash is support moving hard, but our mentality, arsenic you could spot tonight, it was amended successful a amended way."

Before breaking the deadlock against Paris FC, Chelsea squandered six chances. It looked astatine 1 constituent that it was going to beryllium different crippled successful which the Blues misfired successful the last third.

Credit to the Paris goalkeeper Mylene Chavas, who pulled disconnected respective exceptional saves to support Chelsea astatine bay, but had it not been for a contested punishment connected Sjoeke Nüsken, which Read Entire Article