Chelsea supervisor Sonia Bompastor has mentioned that they are going to be with out 4 key gamers forward of their Champions League recreation away to Celtic on Wednesday.
Bompastor confirmed that Millie Shiny, Mayra Ramirez, Sjoeke Nusken and Kadeisha Buchanan haven’t travelled to Scotland for his or her encounter at Celtic Park.
The Blues know a victory will seal their development to the knockout phases, although have determined to relaxation a number of of their key gamers throughout a busy fixture schedule.
Their journey to Scotland would be the second of three matches inside seven days in all competitions for Bompastor’s facet and, consequently, she has determined to rotate her squad.
“The squad is in an excellent place and we have now an excellent dynamic and we’re stuffed with confidence,” she instructed a press convention
“We now have been taking part in plenty of video games and this week we play three video games so it’s necessary to handle gamers as people.
“We now have some gamers who didn’t journey for this recreation. Kadeisha Buchanan, Millie Shiny, Sjoeke Nusken and Mayra Ramirez didn’t journey.”
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Chelsea come into the sport with a 100% file in all competitions underneath Bompastor, together with two wins from two in opposition to Actual Madrid and Twente within the Champions League.
And they are going to be assured of sustaining their good run, having misplaced simply one among their earlier 20 group stage matches within the competitors (W14 D5) and are unbeaten throughout their final 14 (W11 D3).
“As , Chelsea have an excellent squad with high quality and an excellent group will begin the sport and be aggressive as a result of we wish to end first on this group,” she mentioned.
Their early-season type has them second within the Girls’s Tremendous League and prime of their Champions League group, a minimum of three factors forward of another group.
Regardless of resting gamers, Bompastor reassured folks that it was Chelsea’s ambition to battle on all fronts.
“The Champions League is necessary and we have now ambition and we wish to be sure that we end first within the group,” she mentioned.
“We now have ambitions and if we wish to go for all of the competitions then you’ll want to beat each group.
“It would begin once more in March and that’s when the actually necessary video games begin, however proper now we’re targeted on the group stage.”
