{"id":651377,"date":"2025-02-01T08:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T13:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=651377"},"modified":"2025-02-01T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T13:57:50","slug":"chelsea-women-predicted-lineup-aston-villa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/02\/01\/chelsea-women-predicted-lineup-aston-villa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Girma Debut: Chelsea Women Predicted Lineup vs Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Chelsea Women predicted lineup for their WSL clash with Aston Villa women on February 2. The Blues gained a commanding lead atop the table after a 1-0 win over Arsenal Women and solidified their position by making a world record move for American defender Naomi Girma. The Villans gave Sonia Bompastor a tough contest on the opening day of the campaign and will be hoping to improve on that by getting a positive result this time around,<\/p>\n

Chelsea Women Predicted Lineup vs Aston Villa in WSL Clash<\/h2>\n

How Chelsea Women Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n

Zecira Musovic and Hannah Hampton have shared the duties in goal. The defence has featured Maelys Mpome, Lucy Bronze, Nathalie Bjorn, Millie Bright, Niamh Charles, and Ashley Lawrence.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, Sjoeke Nusken, Erin Cuthbert, and Oriane Jean-Francois tend to occupy the deeper slots. The attacking three spots have been spread among Cat Macario, Sandy Baltimore, Aggie Beever-Jones, Maika Hamano, Lauren James, Guro Reiten, and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd.<\/p>\n

Mayra Ramirez is the first-choice striker but both Macario and Beever-Jones can deputise in that position when needed.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Women Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n

Bompastor continues to stick with her 4-2-3-1 setup which aims to control possession and press high to force the opponents back. This system sees the full-backs play high and join the wingers to fully overload the opposition defence.<\/p>\n

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After looking somewhat shakey towards the end of December, the winter break has allowed the team to get players back from injury and rejuvenate which has seen them looking incredibly dangerous since the end of the winter break, they haven’t let in a single goal since the turn of the year while scoring 15 unanswered strikes.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Women Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n

The ACL crew of Sophie Ingle, Sam Kerr, Kadeisha Buchanan, and Mia Fishel remain sidelined.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Women Predicted Lineup v Aston Villa<\/h3>\n

With one eye on the league cup semi-final in midweek there could be some players left out with an eye to letting them start on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

GK – Hannah Hampton<\/p>\n

LB – Niamh Charles<\/p>\n

CB – Naomi Girma<\/p>\n

CB – Millie Bright<\/p>\n

RB – Lucy Bronze<\/p>\n

DM – Erin Cuthbert<\/p>\n

DM – Oriane Jean-Francois<\/p>\n

LW – Lauren James<\/p>\n

AM – Guro Reiten<\/p>\n

RW – Johanna Rytting Kaneryd<\/p>\n

ST – Mayra Ramirez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a Chelsea Women predicted lineup for their WSL clash with Aston Villa women on February 2. The Blues gained a commanding lead atop the table after a 1-0 win over Arsenal Women and solidified their position by making a world record move for American defender Naomi Girma. The Villans gave Sonia Bompastor a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":651380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7008,7007],"tags":[4179],"class_list":["post-651377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-super-league","category-womens-football","tag-chelsea-women"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651400,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651377\/revisions\/651400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}