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Who needs strikers?0
- Chelsea FC Women, Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 15th September 2020
Who needs strikers? With Chelsea’s defenders on such potent scoring form at the start of the new season, the Blues can contemplate resting their forwards. Reece James and Kurt Zouma were among the scorers (along with a penalty by midfielder Jorginho) as Chelsea defeated Brighton 3-1 away on Monday night – the James goal an
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A nine-goal blitz for Blues 0
- Chelsea FC Women, News, Sport
- 13th September 2020
It was not so much a match as an execution. The man trying to keep the score ran out of paper, and the only question was whether Chelsea Women would get into double figures in their first home game of the new WSL season against Bristol City. But it finished 9-0, with almost everyone in
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Five Blues in England squad 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 8th September 2020
England Women’s coach Phil Neville has named an extra-large squad of players for a training camp at the end of the month… with five Chelsea stars included. Carly Telford, the second oldest in the squad after City’s Jill Scott, will battle Ellie Roebuck for the green jersey. Also in the 30-strong Lionesses squad are defender
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Blues stutter in opening game 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 6th September 2020
Guro Reiten slipped a congratulatory fingertip touch to Sam Kerr, right, after the Aussie striker put her frustrating Community Shield performance at Wembley behind her by notching Chelsea’s opening goal in the new WSL campaign. But Kerr’s first-half stike, away to Manchester United at Leigh Village on Sunday afternoon, wasn’t enough to clinch a win
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Millie’s scorcher 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 29th August 2020
Millie Bright scored one of the best goals she’ll ever notch as Chelsea defeated Manchester City at Wembley in the curtain-raiser to the women’s football season. In an empty Wembley, the Blues lifted the Community Shield after a 2-0 win over arch-rivals City, who are still smarting at being denied the 2019-20 Women’s Super League
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Wembley beckons for Chelsea’s revitalised Women 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 17th August 2020
As Chelsea’s men take to their yachts or put their feet up in front of the telly (Ross Barkley has helpfully issued his Netflix tips this week), it’s all go for the women. Manager Emma Hayes is hard at work at the Cobham training ground and the Kingsmeadow stadium in Kingston getting her players match-fit
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