Chelsea cancels Man City to send a declaration in the Champions League to Famiger Second
Can we play you every week? At the height of four meetings in 12 days between Chelsea AND Manchester Cityperhaps also the answer from Sonia BompastorThe side is a “no”. But Chelsea arrived at Champions League female The semifinals once again, saving their best performance of the fifteen days to dissect visitors to the Stamford Bridge, requesting only 44 minutes to overturn their defeat for the two -goal legs and seeing late pressure To do the job. The city will be tired of the sight of Chelsea; The only match of the four who won proved to be more insignificant.
Chelsea was jubilant, a gigantic effort rewarded with the return they knew was possible. “We have never had doubts,” said Captain Millie Bright. In the last two weeks, they have won the League Cup, have stretched their advantage at the top of the women’s Super League and progressed in a semifinal of the fourth Champions League in five seasons.
They will face a family enemy: the two-time Barcelona reigning champion, who defeated Chelsea in the semifinal in the last two years and has destroyed Wolfsburg 10-2 in aggregate in the other quarter-final. It will be the time when the extremely impressive debut season of Bompastor has been built and the final test, but also the reigning champions will look at this cancellation of the city and will have a sense of trepidation.
For anyone in Maroon, the experience that faces Chelsea in this completely English quarter -final has proved deeply uncomfortable, perhaps even humiliating in the first half blitz. Judging by the frustration of Vivianne MiedemaThe exasperation of Laia Aleixandri and the loss of the provisional manager Nick Cushing on the touch line, this was a harmful and disconcerting collapse. “The perfect night for us,” said Bompastor. “It was a difficult challenge but we believed it was possible, that he made the difference.” After Sandy Baltimore pulled the first back after 13 minutes, Chelsea was unstoppable; The spell of 15 minutes before the interval brought two more, from Nathalie Bjorn and Mayra Ramirez, yet it could have been five or six for the break.
That the city was not allowed to force some late pressure. Miedema, who scored both goals in the 2-0 victory last week, went close to a low journey beyond the post. Chelsea fell a little deeper, a little more inclined to touch the ball everywhere while eliminating their lines. But this was their performance of the season under Bompastor, a display that brought a physicality to its brilliant and dynamism showed up at levels with which the city could not live together. Chelsea built a young hungry collection of runners and bompastor will appreciate them indicating them in the direction of Barcelona in the last meeting of their rivalry in the Champions League next month.
Perhaps inspired by the frenetic time of the Arsenal In overturning a 2-0 defeat of the first leg against Real Madrid At the Emirates, Chelsea was unstoppable and unstoppable from the beginning. Bruised from the city Finishing their run unbeaten by 28 games Last week in Manchester, they brought the intensity that seemed to surprise the Cushing team. Chelsea was immediately more clear, with Lauren James Distribute Gracie Prior – the first of several challenges won by the attacker – and Ramirez is loaded through Jill Roord. There was no time for the city to breathe: the compound Yui Hasegawa was also invaded, at a certain point he went around to find himself surrounded by Ramirez and Wieke Kaptein.
Chelsea continued to come and City discovered that there was no way to slow them down. Bjorn’s header hit the post after a first ten minutes of domination, so Lucy Bronze broke out in the box with a first two and hit the vertical with the outside of the foot. Baltimore was there to slam into the rebound. Bompastor was banging his arms while Erin Cthbert went to the ground under Aleixandri’s challenge. No penalty, but Chelsea is back and Miedema was forced to free Bjorn’s header. A third possibility for Bjorn from a corner brought the tie, his header was launched.
At that point, it was really all that Chelsea. Before then, Hannah Hampton had been forced to stop at the bottom to deny Mary Fowler, with Kerolin next to hitting on the target. But without Khadija Shaw, excluded from both legs of this quarter -final due to a knee tendon injury, adding in the absence of Lauren’s hemp, City was missing from a presence in advance and their authorizations continued to return. At the other end, Ramirez tormented Aleixandri. Shortly before the interval, he forced the city captain to grant a launch. In a blink of an eye, City lost possession carefully and James was blocking Ramirez to add the third.
Work done? Not entirely. Khiara Keating had an excellent game on goal for visitors, saving well from Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and the tireless Cuthbert in the second half. The threat was transported by Chelsea on pause, with Cutchbert hit the bar on another late trip, but the rhythm was slowed down. Just a goal far from forcing the extra time, City has found some conviction; Miedema was a thumb or two from dragging them again at the level.
But there would have been just a winner. Chelsea will be championship champion this season. They are already winners of the League Cup and the England Cup could follow. City could have spoiled him by eliminating them from the prize that want to win on top of everything else, only for Chelsea to prove to be the best in the country everywhere.
