It’s solely January and Chelsea Girls can already declare their first shot at silverware, hinging on beating Manchester Metropolis within the upcoming Girls’s League Cup semifinal.
This Metropolis should not just like the one beneath Gareth Taylor. With Andrée Jeglertz at helm they’ve solely misplaced a single recreation. It does bode properly for us that this very recreation was the season opener in opposition to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, within the Girls’s Tremendous League.
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Can we do all of it once more, this time of their house turf?
Date / Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2025, 19.00 GMT; 2:00pm ESTVenue: Academy Stadium, Manchester, EnglandForecast: Some rain and a few wind
On TV: Sky Sports activities (UK); none (USA); Streaming: Sky GO, BBC iPlayer (UK); YouTube (int’l)
Manchester Metropolis crew information: All of us hoped Metropolis’s 2-1 loss to Chelsea again in September was a portent of issues to come back for us and for them. What we noticed as an alternative was a foul run of Girls’s Tremendous League matches for Chelsea that put the Blues within the uncomfortable place of chasing after the Mancunians, after rising so used to the precise reverse scenario over time.
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Supervisor Andrée Jeglertz, who sees his crew in a a lot totally different — and markedly higher — place than they had been once they misplaced to the Blues virtually 4 months in the past, won’t be capable to rely on Kerolin. The Brazilian attacker had a small challenge earlier than their earlier match during which they beat Bournemouth 6-0 within the Girls’s FA Cup. In the meantime gamers recovering from long-term accidents, similar to Mary Fowler and Aoba Fujino, are nonetheless some days away from returning to the pitch.
Chelsea crew information: The Blues had little to no difficulties brushing Crystal Palace apart within the Girls’s FA Cup fourth spherical. We couldn’t watch and even hear the match on radio because it occurred. However the replay exhibits the 5-0 scoreline in our favour may’ve been a lot worse for the guests if goalkeeper Shae Yáñez wasn’t as sharp as she was final weekend.
Notably our match in opposition to Palace didn’t function any of Aggie Beever-Jones, Catarina Macario, Keira Walsh and Niamh Charles because the quartet recovered from harm. Out of those 4 gamers, solely Aggie is match to be a part of the squad this Wednesday.
Beforehand: Mayra Ramírez scores early, and Yui Hasegawa’s personal objective put Chelsea again in entrance so we are able to elevate our third ever League Cup trophy after three consecutive seasons as runners-up.