Can Chelsea go season unbeaten?
Sonia Bompastor may shy away from talk of a quadruple and an unbeaten season but the England and Chelsea defender Lucy Bronze is not. The full-back told the BBC the players “want to go the season unbeaten” after their 1-0 win over Arsenal maintained their undefeated run under Bompastor in the WSL, as they ended the weekend with a seven-point cushion at the top, and nine over third-placed Manchester City. “We’ve never won the Champions League. We’ve got five league titles in a row but [going] unbeaten [would be] unbelievable. We’re on a good road to doing that,” said Bronze. Are these realistic targets? Increasingly, yes. The perfect performances haven’t always been there in the first half of the season, a natural thing given the managerial change in the summer, but they have still won 11 of their 12 games, drawing the other. Now, they are only getting better as connections and understanding develop. The addition of Naomi Girma, one of the world’s most intelligent centre-backs, who was presented to the crowd on Sunday, will only strengthen their charge. SW
