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Bompastor reflects on a perfect start at Kingsmeadow
Chelsea Women head coach Sonia Bompastor was delighted to see her team share the goals around and entertain the home supporters in a 9-0 victory over Feyenoord.
https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/bompastor-reflects-on-a-perfect-start-at-kingsmeadow
Bompastor couldn't have asked for much more in her first Chelsea match at Kingsmeadow, as her side raced into an early lead and never looked back, triumphing 9-0 at the final whistle.
Her joy was clear in a light-hearted start to her post-match analysis, when it was pointed out to her the Blues got one more goal than in previous head coach Emma Hayes' last home game, an 8-0 win over Brentford.
‘That’s not a competition, but I am going to text her to make sure she knows about the result! I am sure she will be happy for me and for the team especially,’ laughed Bompastor.

It was the Blues' performance which put the biggest smile on her face, though, especially the fact that a total of seven players got their name on the score sheet, as Sandy Baltimore, Mayra Ramirez, Sjoeke Nusken, Wieke Kaptein, Millie Bright and Maika Hamano all found the net, in addition to a hat-trick from Aggie Beever-Jones.
‘It was the same in my previous experience. I really like when the team is performing together, it’s not about only one or two players. So I always makes sure the team performs, and when the team is performing it’s more helpful for the players individually to perform as well.
'We have a framework and I’m really demanding on the framework, as well as for individuals to perform. Everyone has to make sure they work for the team. That’s the best thing to do to make sure the players feel confident enough and perform themselves.'

Bompastor was happy to give the supporters something to smile about in her first home game as head coach...
'It felt really good to be in that environment. It’s a really nice stadium to have the fans close to the pitch, especially when you win and you score a lot of goals.
'That’s our first game at home with the fans in the stadium and we needed to make sure we played the way we want to play, but make sure they enjoyed it as well. That is what it is about, trying to perform as hard as we can and making sure the fans really enjoy it.
'I just want them to say at the end of the game they want to come back for the next one.'

She also discussed the possibility of Ramirez and Beever-Jones featuring together as a striker partnership in the future...
'Everything is possible and both have so much talent, so to audition them together is something possible.
'As a manager I like to have different organisations in my team and at the moment maybe we have been working only with one organisation. We just brought in new players and with a new coach, so they need to get used to what I’m demanding in one organisation, but for sure during the season maybe we’ll switch.
'We will have many options, playing with a back four, back five, back three. A 4-4-2 with two strikers is something I really like but I just feel like at the moment it’s too soon to start to teach them about all these organisations.'

Sonia finished by providing an update on the two players who went off injured today and those who have been absent since earlier in pre-season...
'I think Niamh [Charles] dislocated her shoulder, so she will need to pass some tests to see how it goes, at the moment it’s too soon to give more information. Sophie [Ingle] it was her knee, she got kicked in the beginning of the second half, so we will have to see after some tests as well, but I hope it’s not too bad.
'Erin [Cuthbert] is supposed to start adaptive training on Monday and if everything goes well the plan is for her to get some minutes in a training game next Saturday.
'Cat’s [Macario] kind of the same, she’s already started some adaptive training sessions with the team, she’s supposed to progress this week and the plan is also for her to get some minutes next Saturday.
'Oriane [Jean-Francois], before she joined the club she had two seasons without playing a lot because she had injuries. So we are at the moment trying to build something with her with consistency and the plan is for her maybe to get some minutes in the beginning of the season. But we still need to work one or two more weeks with her.'
 

Can someone please ban this racist bellend troll please?
They are now sending me hate PMs.

 

this is all becoming one big farce

lol, they knew it was dodgy and pulled it
disasterclass shitbaggery

It's happening!!!

Read that and thought they were buying Malang Sarr back 😃

erm

😿

Felix showed more passion for the badge in his little stint than many, many players before him. Would welcome him here with open arms.

I think we just need to be patient and expect things to take a bit before we see everything click. But the signs are there that Maresca CAN get us playing good football. 
I’m much more confident in these ideas we’re seeing than I was with Poch who had much longer and never created anything resembling a specific style.
If we can get Palmer, Nkunku, Neto, and Jackson all cooking and clicking with one another I think we’ll be great to watch and SUPER dangerous.
 

Hopefully Mudryk out to literally anywhere

the amount of hate this transfer is getting im sure he will be a great player :D

Its the right move for him. Let’s pay our respects to that man, he played with his heart on his sleeve for us. He has blue blood but unfortunately just isnt what we are looking for going forward. Good luck Conor.

Loan back I guess?

Transfer Mike Penders is finished. €20M+bonusses for the Belgian goalkeeper (19). Welcome ❤️

Yeah last year he played in the youth team in Belgian second division.
I assume we are scouting him for a long time, cause 20m is a lot of money for unproven goalie.
I wonder if we are also scouting Karetsas, this young (16) Belgian/Greek could be a real gem. 2 years ago he rejected City and Ajax to join Genk from Anderlecht and will be first team member this year.

hope its not us.

i am fine withe either alvarez or osimhen, but if i had to chose i would pick alvarez.

Did anyone order a new snake? 

Did anyone get injured on the flight to the US?

Best CB Chalobah? 🤣
Of 51 games in the season he started just 13. So basically played just 25% of the games. In those 13 games we conceded 17 goals and had just 3 clean sheets. Against City and Liverpool he was introduced from the bench with 20 and 8 mins and we conceded only when he stepped on the pitch. Was never more than 4th or 5th option. Tomori and Guehi also academy players are like 5 times better players and nobody cares about them and btw I don't think they are good enough either. Crazy what some fans are doing. Probably same people who were crying for months about possibility of Mount leaving. 

I’ve said this before but I just don’t for the life of me get the meltdowns from our fans on Twitter about us selling Trev. Exactly the same as Gallagher. Two players who are academy products, yes so I get the sentimentality, but are merely decent but not great players. They’re solid squad players for a top team. Yet Chelsea fans are losing their heads as if we’re selling Salah or KDB again.
Neither Chalobah or Gallagher get anywhere near our best XI this season if everyone is fit. So if we can get tens of millions in pure profit for players who weren’t even going to be starters it’s a no brainer.

buy david for 25 and buy 12 more brazilians for 75m

Yeah sell him who looked promising and buy this over the road Hall.