To be the perfect, it’s essential to beat the easiest. It’s the rationale why Chelsea Girls can be up in opposition to Arsenal on the Emirates this Tuesday for the primary leg of the UEFA Girls’s Champions League quarter-finals.
For the primary time shortly the Blues come right into a tie like this as underdogs. It’s a bizarre feeling that we don’t wish to get used to. Nevertheless it may make issues simpler for us as stress is on the hosts to indicate their successful run final season was not a fluke.
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Date / Time: Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 20:00 BST; 3:00 pm ETVenue: Emirates Stadium, London, UKReferee: Alina Peşu (on pitch); Ovidiu Haţegan (VAR)Forecast: Many clouds, not as a lot breeze
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Arsenal workforce information: With Chelsea failing to take advantage of out of a number of alternatives within the Girls’s Tremendous League to at the least maintain at Manchester Metropolis’s toes, the Gunners are the workforce finest positioned to take over if the Mancunians let the trophy slip by way of their fingers by some means. They’re on a nine-win streak that started with a 2-0 league win over the Blues in January.
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Head coach Renee Slegers received’t have the ability to name upon defender Steph Catley, midfielder Kyra Cooney-Cross and ahead Caitlin Foord as they’ll be resting from an prolonged worldwide break as a result of Australia’s deep AFC Girls’s Asian Cup run. Group captain Leah Williamson can be out of rivalry.
Chelsea workforce information: Sure, this Blues workforce is extraordinarily drained and the squad is getting thinner by the day with key accidents throughout. This doesn’t imply a workforce like this could fold prefer it did within the second half of their 1-1 draw in opposition to London Metropolis final weekend, which may have nicely been a loss hadn’t it been for Hannah Hampton with some key saves.
Sadly for us and supervisor Sonia Bompastor, captain Millie Shiny isn’t able to return to the pitch. It’s the identical case for defender Ellie Carpenter and ahead Sam Kerr, who simply arrived in England from Australian nationwide workforce obligation. Aggie Beever-Jones, who left the sphere early final Saturday with a knock, is likely to be match to function.
Beforehand: Mayra Ramírez and Sandy Baltimore present the products in a 2-1 WSL win on the Emirates.