Girls’s Tremendous League: Arsenal v Chelsea
Venue: Emirates Stadium, London Date: Saturday, 8 November Kick-off: 12:00 GMT
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Chelsea haven’t misplaced a match within the Girls’s Tremendous League in 555 days.
Their French supervisor Sonia Bompastor has by no means skilled the sensation of defeat within the English prime flight.
Since shedding 4-3 to Liverpool on 1 Could 2024, Chelsea have claimed two WSL titles, modified managers and gone 32 league video games unbeaten.
In the event that they keep away from defeat on Saturday, the Blues will equal the longest unbeaten streak in WSL historical past – set by Chelsea beneath Emma Hayes between 2019 and 2021.
However Arsenal, who’re determined to maintain their title hopes alive, stand of their approach.
Might the Gunners be the group to lastly finish Chelsea’s unbeaten run? BBC Sport seems to be on the key statistics and speaking factors surrounding the fixture.
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Now or by no means for Arsenal to save lots of title hopes
Whereas Chelsea have stayed unbeaten initially of 2025-26 marketing campaign and sit prime of the WSL desk, Arsenal have been much less lucky.
The Gunners’ hopes of a title cost suffered an early blow with a defeat by Manchester Metropolis and attracts in opposition to Manchester United and Aston Villa.
These outcomes have left Arsenal 5 factors behind Chelsea and a defeat on Saturday would absolutely finish their goals of profitable a primary league title since 2019.
Whereas they’ve endured a shaky begin to the season, the Gunners did strengthen in the summertime and Slegers has a deeper squad to problem the reigning champions.
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Arsenal may even take confidence from their triumphant Champions League run final season, after they beat eight-time winners Lyon and favourites Barcelona to raise the one trophy that Chelsea have but to win.
Former Gunners defender Jen Beattie says Arsenal have the gamers to trigger Chelsea issues.
“I do suppose that they’ve greater than sufficient high quality of their squad to [win], ” she informed the Girls’s Soccer Weekly podcast.
“We have seen that over the previous kind of 12 months in fact – it is whether or not they get it tactically proper.”
Slegers may even be effectively conscious that Bompastor’s aspect have regarded removed from invincible this season.
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The Blues overcame a gradual begin to beat Aston Villa they usually narrowly edged previous Leicester, whereas they dropped factors in a shock draw in opposition to Dutch aspect Twente of their Girls’s Champions League opener.
Describing Chelsea’s unbeaten run as “ridiculous”, former England striker Ellen White added: “It will be an actual problem for Arsenal and I believe it comes at an excellent time for them.
“They need to put the whole lot collectively now they usually need to carry out and enhance and actually kickstart their season.”
But when the Gunners fail to get any factors on Saturday, White says the title, which they final received in 2019, shall be “out of attain” once more.
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Arsenal’s head-to-head file in opposition to Chelsea
On their strategy to turning into the primary WSL aspect to complete a 22-game season unbeaten, Chelsea did the league-double over Arsenal final time period.
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One objective separated the 2 groups on each events.
Throughout their final outing on the Emirates, – a cushion that the Gunners, who had been taking part in beneath Jonas Eidevall, couldn’t overturn.
In January’s reverse fixture at Stamford Bridge, noticed off to Renee Slegers’ aspect.
Arsenal have received three of their previous 10 conferences in opposition to Chelsea in all competitions, shedding six.
Their final victory in opposition to the Blues arrived within the 2024 League Cup ultimate, when Stina Blackstenius scored a 116th-minute winner.
Greater than 50,000 tickets have been offered for Saturday’s assembly, which Slegers says shall be “a lovely event”, in addition to a “nice alternative” to get again into the title race.
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If Chelsea had been to win, they’d transfer to 22 factors – eight forward of Arsenal, whereas if the hosts had been to triumph, they’d lower the deficit to the Blues to only two factors.
And Arsenal boast a powerful dwelling file, having misplaced simply one in all their previous 24 dwelling matches within the league – though that did come in opposition to Chelsea final season.
“For this reason the gamers work so laborious, what they reside for, to play these sorts of video games the place there’s a lot at stake,” says Slegers.
“It should be about execution. I believe there are two actually good groups going in opposition to one another. There shall be high-quality margins on the pitch.”