Blues thrash Feyenoord 9-0 in friendly as Bompastor's regin as boss gets off to a flyer
By Paul Lagan at Kingsmeadow
Chelsea 9 v Feyenoord 0
If this is a sign of what Chelsea fans can expect this season in the WSL, then the champions are going to score goals – and lots of them.
Okay, an 9-0 thumping of mediocre opposition in Dutch outfit Feyenoord may not equate to a tense tough encounter against an Arsenal or Manchester City, but it could lead to those games being less tense than in recent seasons.
And that's without Sam Kerr, Catarina Macario and Mia Fishel up front – all sidelined with injuries.
Head coach Sonia Bompastor took to home the dugout in charge of the Blues, replacing Emma Hayes and she did not look out of place the first time.
Five minutes in and a goal for new girl, Sandy Baltimore, who had started brilliantly on the right. She squeezed home a neat left-footer from close range to put the Blues 1-0 up.
Maya Ramirez slotted home number two on eight minutes. She out-muscled her defender, took a touch to the right, and from just inside the penalty area dispatched a low right-footer past Oliwia Szymczak.
Left back Niamh Charles almost nodded home number three on 22 minutes, but her looping goal-bound effort has acrobatically hacked off the line by Amber Verspaget. Feyenoord defender Celainy Obispo fouled Ramirez on 27 minutes and get a yellow from referee Emily Heaslip.
She was then given a second yellow and a red for what must have been dissent.
Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor tried to persuade Heaslip to change her mind, but the player left the field.
But she allowed a replacement in Tess van Bentem to come on to keep the teams at 11-a-piece.
Sjoeke Nusken then hit number three, a delicate chip into the back of the net.
Lauren James almost scored a similar effort but again a defender hacked the ball off the line.
The Dutch outfit were torn apart seconds before the whistle allowing Wieke Kaptein the easiest of chances to smash home from close range.
Sophie Ingle replaced Kaptein at half-time.
But it as business as usual , and on 60 minutes, just before a slew of changes, skipper Mille Bright powered home number five.
Six of the best came up on 75 minutes and it was home-grown substitute Aggie Beever-Jones who
notched it.
Another sub, Mailka Hamano got in on the act two minutes later when her low drive from the edge of the penalty area saw the ball was tucked in just inside the near post.
Beever-Jones hit her second and Chelsea's eight when she outpaced the Dutch defence on 86 minutes and simply whacked the ball home.
The substitutions may have affected the quality of the game, but not the goal count and Beever-Jones scored her hat-trick just as the 90 minutes ticked over.
Chelsea: Musovic, Bright, Nusken, Ramirez, James, Baltimore, Kaptein, Rytting Kaneryd, Charles, Bronze, Buchanan
Subs: Hampton, Cox, Ingle, Reiten, Lawrence, Bjorn, Perisset, Hamano, Mpome, Bernabe, Beever-Jones
Feyenoord: Szymczak, Waldus, Verspaget, Obispo, Brandau, Teulings, De Graaf, Koga, Conijnenberg, Van de Lavoir, Van Kerkhoven
Subs: Weimar, Van Eijk, Koopmans, Heij, Van Bentem, Mulder, Lont, Oudejans, Buabadi, Balkhir, Braun.
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