Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor says that her aspect’s mindset stays the identical going into the primary leg of their UEFA Girls’s Champions League quarter-final tie with Manchester Metropolis.
The Blues journey to The Joie Stadium this night to face The Cityzens within the second of 4 consecutive fixtures towards the identical opponent.
Chelsea defeated Manchester Metropolis 2-1 within the Subway Girls’s League Cup remaining on Saturday. Whereas their UEFA Girls’s Champions League tie shall be performed out over two legs, Bompastor says that her aspect’s mindset won’t change from Saturday’s sport.
“The sport is in a special competitors and the context shall be completely different with these two legs however our mindset stays the identical,” Bompastor mentioned when talking within the pre-match press convention. “We have to put the entire components into the sport to have an enormous likelihood to win.
“It’s two legs however this sport is absolutely essential. We’re taking part in away however we now have the identical mindset when it comes to attacking the sport.”
Bompastor went on to say that Chelsea have reviewed the earlier sport towards Manchester Metropolis and so they know the place they will enhance this night.
She mentioned “We had a very good evaluate with the gamers and we all know precisely how we need to assault the sport. We all the time attempt to play one of the best, so our mindset shall be to assault the sport and management it a bit bit extra. The gamers are assured going into the sport and so they know what they should do.”
Chelsea’s loopy four-game schedule towards Manchester Metropolis is being performed out over 12 days. The hectic nature of the calendar will put pressure on Bompastor’s squad however she says that each participant is able to be referred to as upon.
She mentioned “I’m fortunate sufficient to have a very good squad with plenty of expertise and high quality. It’s actually essential for me to contain everybody in these 4 video games, particularly as a result of sooner or later, we might want to have some freshness. It could possibly be one thing that’s actually essential.
“It’s good to have depth within the squad, expertise and high quality for me to have the ability to contain everybody, to make it possible to each participant to compete in these video games. My job is to make it possible for I choose the fitting beginning XI in each sport. Additionally, having game-changers on the bench who can end the sport, carry vitality and assist us carry out is absolutely essential.
“It’s a group efficiency. It’s not simply in regards to the gamers that begin, it’s in regards to the ones on the bench that may carry the fitting mindset and vitality to the sport.”
Chelsea’s UEFA Girls’s Champions League quarter-final, first leg fixture at Manchester Metropolis kicks-off at 8pm this night.