Easy travel best part of Chelsea’s Champions League draw for Bompastor

Following today’s Champions League draw, Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor said that the best part of Chelsea’s group is the lack of intensive travel.

Chelsea will face Real Madrid, Rangers, and Twente in the group stages, the newly designed computerised draw blessing the Blues with three relatively short journeys.

Speaking after her side’s 0-7 rout of Crystal Palace in the WSL, she told the press that she is looking forward to getting into the competition, the one trophy which Emma Hayes never managed to win in her highly decorated Chelsea stint.

Bompastor said: “Maybe the nice thing with the draw is we don’t have to travel a lot, we get some short and easy travel.

“We are really excited to get started in the Champions League. I just said [the WSL] is competitive, the Champions League is getting more and more competitive, I never take one game for granted.”

She added that schedule congestion will likely start to impact Chelsea’s form as they could be playing as many as three matches per week.

“I know it will be difficult especially because we are now going to start to play three games a week and this is a different competition, a different schedule.

“It is different and we go every game step by step, and we will see how we want to go on.”

Bompastor has already won the Champions League once as a manager with Lyon in 2022. In doing so, she became the first woman to have won the competition as both a player and a coach, having won the tournament in 2011 and 2012.

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