Chelsea have to ‘deal with the longer term’ after Manchester Metropolis finish 28-game unbeaten run – Sonia Bompastor
Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor says her aspect must “deal with the longer term” after their 28-game unbeaten run got here to an finish following a 2-0 defeat to Manchester Metropolis.
Two objectives from half-time substitute Vivianne Miedema secured the victory within the first leg of the Ladies’s Champions League quarter-final on the Joie Stadium.
Regardless of the defeat, Bompastor says her Chelsea aspect, who beat Metropolis within the League Cup ultimate on Saturday, nonetheless have ambitions to “go deep in each competitors.”
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“Tonight was a tricky efficiency, a tricky consequence for us,” the 44-year-old informed DAZN: ” Perhaps the one optimistic factor from the night time is we’ve a second leg. We’ll play at residence and when there’s hope that you must consider it is going to be attainable.
“We mentioned our ambitions originally of the season and we gained’t change that. Our ambitions are nonetheless there. That’s the first time we’ve been overwhelmed, so that isn’t a drama.
“It’s a massive competitors for us and we wish to go deep in each competitors. We nonetheless have one sport to reverse the scenario and there’s nonetheless hope for us.”
Miedema had been launched by interim coach Nick Cushing, , for Lily Murphy.
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“We respect them a lot – they’ve been unreal once more this season,” Miedema, 28, mentioned to BBC Sport.
“We nonetheless must play one another two occasions. It’s going to be actually tough however I believe we are able to get quite a lot of confidence from this sport.”
Chelsea defender Lucy Bronze informed TNT Sports activities after the sport: “I don’t suppose we have been ok, we didn’t have sufficient effort in our press. Metropolis have been extra organised and we have been miles off our sport.
“We’ve had a unbelievable first half of the season and everybody ups their sport after they play Chelsea now as a result of they wish to be the primary workforce to beat us, and that’s occurred in the present day.
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“Though we’re 2-0 down we’re fully assured we are able to flip this round. I believe it (the second leg) would be the largest sport of the season up to now. It’s nonetheless all to play for.”
Metropolis face Chelsea within the Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL) on the Etihad on Sunday earlier than the second leg at Stamford Bridge on March 27.
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