Having suffered loads of previous heartache at Barcelona’s expense, Chelsea might have ordinarily celebrated a 1-1 draw with them within the Ladies’s Champions League.
However this was a missed alternative.
Chelsea have been the higher facet on the night time, dominating a lot of the first half and creating loads of goalscoring alternatives.
They led for eight minutes earlier than failing to clear a nook and permitting Ewa Pajor to pounce on the unfastened ball, cancelling out Ellie Carpenter’s scrumptious opener.
Australian Carpenter ought to have scored the winner too however dragged her close-range end huge with 10 minutes to go and solely the keeper to beat.
It was maybe in that second supervisor Sonia Bompastor knew their likelihood to beat Barcelona had gone.
Substitute Catarina Macario additionally had a purpose dominated out for a marginal offside, and when the full-time whistle finally went, the Blues boss shook her head in frustration as her facet dropped to sixth within the league part desk – two factors behind their Spanish guests in first place.
This was a formidable efficiency and a drastic enchancment from their 8-2 mixture defeat by Barcelona in final season’s semi-finals – however their lack of ruthlessness in the end proved expensive and denied them the victory they craved.
“I feel it’s irritating to not have received the sport, particularly while you have a look at the statistics and the possibilities we had,” stated Bompastor.
“We had alternatives to win so I am pissed off for that motive, however total there have been additionally a variety of positives to take.
“We all know within the Champions League and within the essential video games we have to be scientific. We’ve spoken about that and my gamers are attempting so onerous.
“I am actually happy with the efficiency. Everybody labored onerous and I feel after we are taking part in at this stage, we are able to put in performances like this one.”
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