This is a Chelsea Women predicted lineup for their UEFA Women’s Champions League Quarter Final second leg against Manchester City Women. The Blues visited the Etihad this past weekend and fought from a goal down to win 2-1, the second such winning scoreline between these two teams in the past three outings. With the Cityzens taking a commanding 2-0 lead into this second leg, Sonia Bompastor will need to be perfect to get through to the next round.
Chelsea Women Predicted Lineup vs Manchester City for March 27
How Chelsea Women Have Lined Up Recently
Hannah Hampton has started every game in goal recently. The back four has featured Ashley Lawrence, Lucy Bronze, Niamh Charles, Sandy Baltimore, Nathalie Bjorn, and Millie Bright. In midfield, there’s either a singular lone sitting player or a double pivot with Kiera Walsh, Erin Cuthbert, Sjoeke Nusken, Oriane Jean-Francois, and Wieke Kaptein able to play there.
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In attack the options have been a bit more limited out wide with Lauren James and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd mainly starting out wide, Aggie Beever-Jones can also come in on the right. Cat Macario and Maika Hamano split starts in the middle with Mayra Ramirez and Beever-Jones the go-to strikers.
Chelsea Recent Form & Tactics
Bompastor often uses some sort of 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 depending on personnel and opposition. This proved to be useful enough as her team went undefeated in all competitions until last week when the 2-0 loss away in the first leg took the wind out of their sails. There was a brief experimentation with a back three but injuries to centre-backs have forced them away from such a set-up.
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What will be worrying is that the Blues haven’t kept a single clean sheet against City in this current four-match series, that means they’ll likely need at least three goals here just to take it to extra time. Luckily for them, goalscoring and chance creation haven’t been a major issue despite the absence of top scorer Guro Reiten.
Chelsea Women Injuries to Consider
The same number of players will be unavailable. Sam Kerr, Naomi Girma, Reiten, Sophie Ingle, Kadesiha Buchanan, and Zecira Musovic are all ruled out. Mia Fishel isn’t in the squad for this competition despite making her first appearance in over a year at the weekend.
Chelsea Women Predicted Lineup vs Manchester City Women
In her press conference, the manager spoke about having finishers as well as starters so we could see some fresh legs brought in for this one with some key players left on the bench to make an impact against tired City legs.
GK – Hannah Hampton
LB – Niamh Charles
CB – Millie Bright
CB – Nathalie Bjorn
RB – Lucy Bronze
DM – Keira Walsh
CM – Sjoeke Nusken
DM/CM – Erin Cuthbert
W – Lauren James
ST – Mayra Ramirez
W – Aggie Beever-Jones
