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Sonia Bompastor’s sophomore year as Chelsea Women manager has been far from ideal given the standards set by herself and her team last season. But all is far from lost. This Blues squad has been depleted by injuries and today’s starting lineup shows. In such circumstances a result that at least keep us alive in […]
One of the better books I read (well, listened to on audiobook, to be more precise) in recent years was Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary”, and I was happy and excited to see that as with Weir’s “The Martian”, it was being made into a movie (with Weir himself also involved). So I went to […]
I’ve maintained for a long time that by overall average, we’re never going to get a game worse than our 6-0 defeat against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium back in 2018-19. And this weekend’s 3-0 surrender to Everton did indeed manage to avoid those lows. But it did come close top the “top” three, […]
To be the best, you need to beat the very best. It’s the reason why Chelsea Women will be up against Arsenal at the Emirates this Tuesday for the first leg of the UEFA Women’s Champions League quarter-finals. For the first time in a while the Blues come into a tie like this as underdogs. […]
Enzo Fernández opened the door and the rumor mill wasted zero time in bursting through. And they are here to stay, and they’re not even taking their shoes off. Spanish media are already quite convinced that Enzo wants to move to Real Madrid. After all, if you’re a Spanish newspaper, there could be no highest […]
Crushed Oof Fifth
Chelsea’s season may be getting flushed down the pipes faster than last night’s Taco Bell, but worry not my fellow gullibles, the future is still very bright and very exciting. Sunshine and rainbows and lollipops, not even a wisp of a cloud in the sky. Those in charge remain steadfast in their vision of the […]
First All Interest
Chelsea made it four defeats on the bounce with yet another staggeringly poor performance last night at Goodison Hill Dickinson, with all our familiar failings on glorious display. Cheap giveaways, lazy defending, uninspired possession, poor finishing, critical mistakes: the 3-0 win for Everton was their largest ever margin of victory over Chelsea in the Premier […]
El. Oh. ELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL It took Chelsea some 20 minutes to wake up and start playing, and by that time we had gifted at least two prime opportunities to Everton. Ironically, they didn’t take advantage of those, instead taking advantage of some lazy play in midfield and defense to take the lead through Beto. Chelsea huffed […]
With Liverpool beaten at Brighton earlier today and Aston Villa not playing until tomorrow, Chelsea have a chance to move up to fourth for at least tonight with a win here at Everton’s new ground, Hill Dickinson Stadium. We’ve relied on our away record to stay in the hunt for European places (same as Everton), […]
Chelsea are dealing with some defensive injuries at the moment, most notably to Reece James and Trevoh Chalobah, which will result in some more defensive shuffling for today’s game against Everton. James has been relatively durable this season (whether at right back or midfield) while Chalobah was third on the team in terms of minutes […]
In the beginning of the season London City Lionesses might have had higher targets for the season. At the moment they seem happy to be in the Women’s Super League midst, several points away from relegation in their first ever season with England’s top teams. This kind of mentality was clear in their approach to […]
It’s a sunny day out in London for a derby at the Den, where Chelsea Women visit the London City Lionesses for the first time in history. We should expect to make this trip often in the future as the recently promoted Championship outfit aren’t following the same track of fellow teams who bounced in […]
Stable Lol Hmm
Chelsea have hit a dizzying downward spiral in record time over the past ten days or so — going to hell in a handbasket is a phrase that comes to mind — and there’s certainly a non-zero chance that the events of the last three games will end up derailing the entire rest of our […]
With five matches left in the Women’s Super League and seven points separating Chelsea Women from league leaders Manchester City, you can never rule us out of a late title challenge. For that to happen we need to stay on the winning track and beat all those in our path, including the newly promoted London […]
It’s not getting any easier for Chelsea; in fact, it may be getting harder as we head up to Merseyside this weekend. Goodison away is never an easy place to play, and right now, it might be downright intimidating. Good thing Everton don’t play at Goodison anymore! The Toffees’ record in their fancy new digs […]
What a player Most Advanced
After our latest demoralizing defeat, on Tuesday night, Chelsea Vice-captain Enzo Fernández stopped by the cameras of ESPN Argentina to answer a few questions. He talked about our own mistakes, about PSG’s quality, and about how we needed to regroup and support each other because there was still plenty left to fight for this season, […]
Darkest timeline if they win Most Only
For the third consecutive year, we have at least one new addition to the WAGNH Community Player Ratings Hall of Shame, a.k.a. (televised) games from the past fourteen years where the overall average rating was below 4.0. (As usual, the caveat about “televised games” is to explain why the 4-2 home defeat to third division […]
Given our very limited options for the backline in light of several centre-back injuries and the fact this squad is coming from a hard-fought final win against Manchester United in the Women’s League Cup only three days ago, you couldn’t ask for a better start for Chelsea Women. Brighton tried to explore our defensive woes […]
It’s only been a few days since Chelsea Women successfully defended their Women’s League Cup title against Manchester United. With that done, we move our focus to the Women’s Super League as we host Brighton at Kingsmeadow. Injuries to the backline and head coach Sonia Bompastor’s choice for rotation make this lineup somewhat different from […]
Fresh off the glory of beating Manchester United to a Women’s League Cup trophy and successfully defend their title, Chelsea Women host Brighton at Kingsmeadow for a (delayed) Women’s Super League clash tonight. Our chances of making up the 10-point difference between ourselves and Manchester City in eight rounds is slim, but not impossible. Especially […]