Chelsea, despite a dominant start to the season, faced their first setback with a 1-1 draw against Leicester. The match highlighted the challenges facing coach Sonia Bompastor as she seeks to maintain the team's winning momentum.
When we talk about ambitions, we need to turn words into actions,' said a frustrated Sonia Bompastor after Chelsea dropped their first points of the season to Leicester. 'I need my players to be ready from the beginning of every game.' Demands at the highest level are brutal, but Chelsea are never top by luck or chance. Bompastor has willingly accepted the 'taskmaster' baton passed on by Emma Hayes , who left in the summer, and run with it - impressively fast.
Under the Frenchwoman's rule, Chelsea have raced into a six-point lead at the top of the Women's Super League, cruised into the Champions League knockout stages with a 100 per cent record, and averaged 2.8 goals per 90 in all competitions. Stream Sky Sports and more with NOWLive WSL table | Fixtures | ResultsDownload the Sky Sports appThey have been virtually unstoppable. But the trip to the King Power offered a well-timed reminder that, despite the provocation, the WSL remains fiercely fought and no team are infallible. Bompastor bemoaned a lack of intensity, intention and efficiency as Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw, despite taking 82 touches in the Leicester box and registering 28 shots at goal. The expectation is to win, and anything less is ultimately a disappointment. Still, to have reached the season's halfway point with 15 victories and one draw from 16 games is quite remarkable. And while, on paper, such a feat appears easy with the best-assembled squad (and biggest budget) in the WSL, things are rarely that straightforward. Once impregnable dynasties can fall - take Manchester City's implosion under the great Pep Guardiola as evidence - but this empire, in this moment at least, is not for breaking. The ideas are fresh, with new identity, as Bompastor attempts to shape Chelsea into a team that wins with possessional flair and style over sheer might. She wants the same winning machine that Hayes built, just with a sprinkling of French refinement, or as she would phrase it, je ne sais quo
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