Having suffered loads of previous heartache at Barcelona’s expense, Chelsea might have ordinarily celebrated a 1-1 draw with them within the Girls’s Champions League.
However this was a missed alternative.
Chelsea had been the higher aspect on the evening, 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 broad with 10 minutes to go and solely the keeper to beat.
It was maybe in that second supervisor Sonia Bompastor knew their probability 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 aspect dropped to sixth within the league section desk – two factors behind their Spanish guests in first place.
This was a powerful 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 whenever you take 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 general there have been additionally a variety of positives to take.
“We all know within the Champions League and within the essential video games we must be medical. We’ve spoken about that and my gamers try so laborious.
“I am actually happy with the efficiency. Everybody labored laborious and I feel once we are enjoying at this stage, we will put in performances like this one.”
