Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor is embracing her facet being the group to beat within the WSL after they went prime with a 2-0 win over title rivals Manchester Metropolis.
Bompastor, the primary coach within the league’s historical past to win her opening seven video games within the competitors, stored up her good document at Chelsea since taking on from Emma Hayes due to second-half objectives from Mayra Ramirez and Guro Reiten at Stamford Bridge.
Metropolis had been additionally unbeaten heading into the sport and prime of the desk, however Chelsea’s essential win places the champions two factors in entrance with a sport in hand, which implies they may feasibly lengthen their result in 5 factors.
Having chased the leaders for many of final season earlier than occurring to win their fifth consecutive title, Chelsea have taken management of the race as they appear to protect their dominance within the post-Hayes period.
Requested if Chelsea are the group to beat, Bompastor mentioned: “Yeah, perhaps for the time being the opposition can suppose that, particularly as a result of we had seven wins in a row within the league.
“However that is our requirements, you recognize. Becoming a member of Chelsea, I used to be actually aligned with the imaginative and prescient and the ambitions. We’re the holders on this competitors, within the league, and we simply must hold these requirements.
“If everyone thinks we are the team to beat, that’s fine for us. As a manager, I love to embrace the pressure. That’s the job. And for my players, having this feeling to be the team to beat, that’s a really good feeling.”
Bompastor was eager to not get forward of herself after the essential win, reminding us that Chelsea “didn’t win anything yet” beneath her, however was clear that Chelsea’s intention is to remain good for your complete season.
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Requested if she thinks her group can pull off that feat, she mentioned: “This is our main goal, of course. But sometimes you just have impacts coming from outside.
“If we hold our gamers wholesome and I’ve all of the squad, then yeah, I’ll perhaps be capable of let you know, with the gamers coming again late that it might be potential.”
Chelsea kept up their 100 per cent record at Stamford Bridge in the WSL against City, with 19,499 in attendance in west London, on the first weekend when all games across the competition are being played in main stadiums.
“It was actually particular,” said Bompastor. “I informed my gamers earlier than the sport, ‘we do the most effective job on this planet as gamers, as managers’. Once more, I informed them, like, ‘simply take pleasure in it’. We play at Stamford Bridge with 20,000 followers coming to the sport.
“We’re playing a great team, Man City. We are both fighting for the top of the table. And I think if you don’t enjoy that moment, it’s really difficult. Tonight it was fun. Fun to have the fans with us and fun to enjoy at the end.”
Taylor not eager ‘to speak fantasy’ as Metropolis lose prime spot
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Gareth Taylor insisted errors at key moments value his Manchester Metropolis facet pricey of their loss to Chelsea
Metropolis boss Gareth Taylor insisted his feelings had been “fine” after the defeat, however refused to debate the potential for Chelsea shifting 5 factors away from his facet.
Requested concerning the potential of Chelsea additional extending their lead on the prime, he mentioned: “Are we going to talk fantasy here or are we going to talk about the game?
“I can not management what Chelsea do within the subsequent sport. We’re nonetheless up and across the prime of the league, we had an excellent begin to the season. We have had a setback.
“I can’t tell you about what they’re going to do with their game in hand.”
Requested concerning the sport, he added: “Obviously we’re disappointed, but I think it was a game of errors for both teams,” he mentioned. “A lot of opportunities came from mistakes. In the first half, they made more than us and we weren’t able to capitalise.
“The sport regarded prefer it was going in direction of sort of a 0-0 and rapidly it slipped away from us. However I feel by way of these errors, we barely evened it up within the second half.”
