Having suffered loads of previous heartache at Barcelona’s expense, Chelsea could 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 large 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 objective 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 finally proved expensive and denied them the victory they craved.
“I feel it’s irritating to not have gained the sport, particularly once you have a look at the statistics and the probabilities we had,” stated Bompastor.
“We had alternatives to win so I am pissed off for that cause, however total there have been additionally a number of positives to take.
“We all know within the Champions League and within the vital video games we have to be medical. We now have spoken about that and my gamers are attempting so laborious.
“I am actually happy with the efficiency. Everybody labored laborious and I feel after we are taking part in at this stage, we will put in performances like this one.”
