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Chelsea’s defender Lucy Bronze said that her team was “miles” during the 2-0 defeat against Manchester City in the quarter-finals of the female Champions League, but insisted that the situation could be corrected.
The replacement Vivianne MIEDEMA left the bench to score twice and Fire City in a dominant position in the draw, giving Sonia BOMPASTOR its first defeat as Boss de Chelsea, four days after raising the League Cup.
The Blues faced a difficult battle during the return match to obtain an elusive first title in the Champions League, although bronze is convinced that they can do it when the two parties meet at Stamford Bridge on March 27.
“I don’t think we were good enough,” said Bronze TNT SPORTS. “I don’t think we had enough efforts in our press. We were sloppy in our death.
“City was better organized. We were miles from our game. Sonia said that at halftime. It improved a bit in the second half, but it was obviously when they entered and obtained their goals.
“Although we are two goals down, we are completely convinced that we can reverse the steam.
Vivianne Miedema scored twice while Man City beat Chelsea
“It will be the biggest match of the season so far. Everything is still to play. We know that we can score goals. We have goals all over the field.”
Although it is the first defeat since its care at the club, Bompastor has taken full responsibility for the result, but also quickly echoes bronze confidence concerning the next meetings with City in the female Super League on Sunday and in Europe four days later.
Asked about his emotions after the match, Bompastor said: “Lots of frustration. For me, it is a question of analyzing now. I take all the responsibility for performance and results. I am hard with myself but people expect the manager to give things back.
“I think today is a difficult night and sometimes it happens in football. It is normal for everyone to be disappointed, but from tomorrow, we must analyze performance.
Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor, on the sidelines during the 2-0 defeat against Man City
“It’s difficult this evening but my job is to make sure that from tomorrow, we have a positive state of mind. What you can control is in the future. We have lost only one match in the season, it was important but it happens.
“I will remain confident for the second step. We have a lot of quality in the team and the freshness will be important. We have depth in the team.”
City has already thrown the plan on how the teams can react to disappointment after the winner of the Miedema match admitted how “Nick Cushing’s team was” disappointed “after failing in the final against Chelsea in Pride Park last weekend.
MIEDEMA celebrates its opening
City asked their opponents to their opponents throughout, with 17 goal attempts in the match, but suffered a 2-1 defeat after the goal of Yui Hasegawa sealed the victory for the leaders of the League.
“This should be our standard,” said Miedema. “We were really disappointed after Saturday (the final of the League Cup).
“Today was special, and I hope we can put the same performance next week.
“We missed a lot of players and I am really happy to have obtained this result because it gives us confidence and I hope we can take this on Sunday and the match next week too.”
