‘We believed it was attainable’ – Bompastor displays on Chelsea’s UWCL victory in opposition to Manchester Metropolis
Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor was pleased with her gamers after they helped the membership to advance into the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League semi-finals with a 3-2 mixture victory over Manchester Metropolis.
The Blues went into final evening’s quarter-final, second leg tie with a two-goal deficit however targets from Sandy Baltimore, Nathalie Björn and Mayra Ramírez turned the tie within the South West Londoners’ favour.
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When talking to the media after the match, Chelsea boss Bompastor expressed her pleasure within the workforce’s efficiency.
“I feel tonight was an ideal evening for us having the ability to play at Stamford Bridge with our followers and having the ability to flip issues round,” Bompastor mentioned. “I’m actually pleased with my gamers. It was a troublesome problem however we believed it was attainable. I feel this perception was one thing actually robust in our facet and perhaps made the distinction.
“The psychological points when it comes to efficiency are typically greater than 70-80% of the efficiency and the outcomes, so I feel tonight, it was a part of the sport. Clearly, it was additionally to have the idea within the psychological strengths going into the sport and simply to suppose it was attainable to realize that, even when, once more, the problem was powerful.”
Chelsea have now accomplished 4 consecutive fixtures in opposition to Manchester Metropolis and Bompastor highlighted how difficult these video games have been.
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She mentioned “When you need to play the identical workforce 4 occasions in 12 days, that’s a extremely massive problem and I feel Metropolis did very properly in these 4 video games in opposition to us.
“I do know that they had some accidents and perhaps it was one thing that went extra in our favour, as a result of they didn’t have all of their squad.”
Chelsea will face European champions FC Barcelona within the semi-finals however Bompastor needs her gamers to first benefit from the second.
She mentioned “Barcelona have a number of expertise, a number of expertise of their squad. It is going to once more be a troublesome problem, however in soccer every thing is feasible, so I’ll deliver the entire confidence we have to go into these two video games.
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“To begin with, we need to get pleasure from this second as a result of it was not straightforward. We had a extremely nice efficiency in the present day, so I need to get pleasure from it after which we’ve got a while to mirror on the video games in April in opposition to Barcelona.”
Chelsea return to Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League motion on Sunday once they play host to West Ham United at Kingsmeadow.