Chelsea overcame an influence outage at Stamford Bridge to finish their winless run towards Barcelona within the Girls’s Champions League in a 1-1 draw.
Play was suspended for near 10 minutes as a consequence of an outage on the stadium which lower all tv feeds, which means that VAR couldn’t be in operation.
Targets from Ellie Carpenter and Ewa Pajor had left the sport within the stability, however the hosts had been left to rue missed probabilities for all three factors.
Sonia Bompastor’s facet went into the competition having beforehand overwhelmed their opponents simply as soon as in seven Champions League conferences, dropping 8-2 on combination when the 2 sides met in final season’s semi-final.
Bompastor was with out Sam Kerr, whereas membership captain Millie Vibrant was dropped to the bench following her testing begin to the marketing campaign.
Ellie Carpenter fired Chelsea forward following a blistering counter-attack
It mattered not although as Carpenter mixed with Aggie Beever-Jones earlier than driving ahead and smashing the hosts forward after a blistering counter-attack.
Ewa Pajor would make sure the lead didn’t final lengthy, capitalising on some poor defending at a nook to stage. Nonetheless, Chelsea remained the workforce in command.
Barcelona rejoice Ewa Pajor’s equaliser towards Chelsea
Wieke Kaptein was denied by each Cata Coll and the foot of the submit on separate events earlier than the sport got here to a halt following an influence lower within the stadium.
That appeared to take the wind out of Chelsea’s sails because the momentum they constructed evaporated and the guests started to regulate proceedings all through the second half.
The introduction of Catarina Macario gave the impression to be the spark the Blues wanted because the ahead headed Chelsea again in entrance along with her first contact, just for it to be dominated out for offside by the best of margins.
Catarina Macario noticed a aim along with her first contact dominated out for offside
She then turned supplier, organising Carpenter for an excellent probability to seize a second, however the Australian dragged her effort vast from shut vary.
The sport would stay stage, which means that Barcelona climb to the highest of the Champions League standings on aim distinction whereas Chelsea stay outdoors the highest 4 required to routinely qualify for the quarter-finals.
Bompastor: We had been the higher workforce
Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor talking with BBC Sport:
“We were the better team tonight, we had a really good performance and created a lot of opportunities. We scored a great goal. I’m happy but frustrated because we could have won the game.
“Any time we play with this mindset and mentality, the gamers must know the way good we could be.
“We played against a strong opponent, everybody knows Barcelona’s qualities. To be able to have this performance against them was really positive.
Sonia Bompastor believes that her Chelsea facet had been the higher workforce towards Barcelona
“If you want to be perfect you have to be clinical and that is something we are working on, we won’t give up on that aspect.
“I helped them with completely different techniques from final season, so the sport plan tonight was higher than the one we did final season.
“The team need to be proud of the performance today, but also take belief and confidence from this performance.”
‘A proud draw for Chelsea’
Chelsea captain Erin Cuthbert talking with ESPN:
“Tonight it was about how we performed. Earlier this year we didn’t put our best foot forward. Tonight is a performance to be proud of.
“It is a good draw. It is one thing to construct on. The workforce labored tirelessly. All people labored in good synergy.
“You shouldn’t need any motivation to play for Chelsea. Every single game is a game you want to win.
“We had been clearly upset with the offside aim. The very fact we’re upset with not getting the win at dwelling towards Barcelona is a extremely good begin for us. Two video games left and we wish to win each of them.”
