Chelsea Women Thread

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

Two weeks ago the women beat Real Madrid to put themselves in a strong position at the top of their Champions League grpoup.

 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

Tonight the girls are in Madrid for the return fixture with Real. Having taken nine points out of nine so far, The Blues can qualify for the knock out stage with a win tonight. The game will be streamed live on The 5th Stand app as well as on DAZN's YouTube channel.

 

[ZAPHOD2319 3,882]

Thank you. At Work DAZN is a better fit!

https://www.youtube.com/@DAZNUWCL

[ZAPHOD2319 3,882]

Ugggghh walked out of my room and came back to see RM scored.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

Frustratingly conservative and sloppy performance. Need tactical changes at the very least for the second half. Perhaps personnel changes too.

Real Madrid 1-0 Chelsea at halftime. Goal game from Scottish international, and ex-Man City player, Caroline Weir. She finished well after our keeper, Ann-Katrin Berger, passed the ball straight to her in the D. A goal that sums up The Blues first half display.

 

Edit: Game finished 1-1, own goal by their keeper after a Guro Reiten penalty came back off the post, hit her, and rebounded in.

Edited December 22, 2022 by OhForAGreavsie

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

Tonight's final match in the group stage will determine whether Chelsea or PSG top Group A. Kick off is at 8pm, UK time (GMT/UTC), Tickets are available, https://www.chelseafc.com/en/tickets/womens-tickets, and the game can be watched live on DAZN's YouTube channel.

 

[Vesper 27,361]

Chelsea 3-0 PSG: Lauren James bags brace as Blues seal top spot in Women’s Champions League group

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/Chelsea-womens-champions-league-psg-lauren-james-b1049067.html

Lauren James scored twice as Chelsea clinched top spot in their Champions League group with a 3-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in front of 10,129 at Stamford Bridge.

Emma Hayes' unbeaten side had already qualified for the knockout phase and simply needed to avoid defeat to their French opponents by two or more goals to lock up their position.

Sam Kerr opened the scoring late in a close-fought first half, which saw the sides enjoy an even split of possession.

But the momentum shifted in the hosts' favour after the restart when James, who had threatened throughout the opening period, netted two in seven minutes to hand her side the comfortable victory.

The Blues' final group-stage match marked the first time since 2016 that Chelsea had taken on European competition at the Premier League venue.

Sandy Baltimore fired PSG's first chance wide of the right post and Kadeisha Buchanan did well to prevent Kadidiatou Diani from converting an aggressive run down the left channel into any real opportunity.

Moments later, Diani nearly handed the visitors the lead when she unleashed an effort from distance but caught the crossbar.

Chelsea worked their way back up the pitch, Fran Kirby chasing the ball down down at the byline and sending a cross to the far post in the direction of James, who stuck out her right leg but could not get a foot on it to force in an opener.

The Blues started to settle in and James deftly dodged several PSG shirts before bouncing a shot in the direction of a diving Sarah Bouhaddi at the near post.

James tried again, winning a battle with her marker on the left of the area before charging in and rolling an attempt across the face of goal.

A goalless first half looked increasingly likely until the ball skipped just past Sakina Karchaoui and PSG failed to clear. Kerr broke free, neatly transferring the ball from her right to left foot before unfurling an unstoppable effort into the top right corner.

Both sides looked aggressive to start the second half but Bouhaddi bungled a pass to her team-mate, instead directing it into the path of James who was able to toe it to Fran Kirby.

Another quick touch from Kerr perfectly set up James, who fired past the PSG keeper from the edge of the six-yard box for her first Champions League goal.

It took her just seven minutes to bag her brace after a well-worked passing sequence ended in a perfectly-placed touch from Kirby at the left of the area to tee up James' composed second strike.

Kirby nearly set up a late fourth for the Blues but substitute Beth England directed her effort just off target, eliciting a gasp but not a goal as the game drew to a close.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

Big game for the girls this weekend; Arsenal (2nd) vs Chelsea (Top) at The Emirates. We sold out our allocation weeks ago, but tickets are still available through Arsenal. So far more than 40,000 seats have been sold: -

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/arsenal/EDP/Event/Index/3032?position=3

 

BBC preview (UK only): -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dqgkkd/the-football-news-show-the-wsl-returns

 

TV

UK: Sky

Outside the UK: The FA Player (https://faplayer.thefa.com/home/all)

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

A question: Is anyone here planning to be at the Emirates on Sunday to watch their first live game of women's football?

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

Tickets selling fast. Get in while you can. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/arsenal/EDP/Event/Index/3032?position=3

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

On 11/01/2023 at 22:08, OhForAGreavsie said:

A question: Is anyone here planning to be at the Emirates on Sunday to watch their first live game of women's football?

Shall be an armchair fan -its on Sky

Some are saying its the biggest womens match ever

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

16 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Shall be an armchair fan -its on Sky

Some are saying its the biggest womens match ever

Not your first game though I'm guessing. 🙂 

Is it Sky saying that? 🙂 🙂

Certainly the biggest of the season so far.

Arsenal twitter account reported yesterday that over 45,000 tickets have been sold. Our best sales figure for a women's game at The Bridge is 38,000 plus, but there were a lot of no shows on the day so the actual attendance will have been something like 25,000.

Edited January 14, 2023 by OhForAGreavsie

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

1 hour ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Not your first game though I'm guessing. 🙂 

Is it Sky saying that? 🙂 🙂

Certainly the biggest of the season so far.

Arsenal twitter account reported yesterday that over 45,000 tickets have been sold. Our best sales figure for a women's game at The Bridge is 38,000 plus, but there were a lot of no shows on the day so the actual attendance will have been something like 25,000.

It's the Beeb saying its the biggest womens game in Europe.

Still, incredible how its progressed. Women in the game generally....

 

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

Brilliant equaliser by Kerr 90th minute

Header reminded me of Crespo

[Billy. 2,739]

Worst ive seen is play for a long time, lucky to nick that point. Players looked like they was still on holiday 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

 

Edited January 20, 2023 by OhForAGreavsie

[Hamilton 2,118]

Belgian media saying that OH Leuven goalie Nicky Evrard is going to sign fir Chelsea woman next coming days, transfer going to happen in the summer.

I don’t watch woman football a lot, only on occasion the big games/tournaments. But what I have seen from Nicky is promising, she also won the Belgian woman’s golden boot this week.