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Chelsea FCW, growth, dominance, and taking the scenic route
Chelsea’s best season to date has also been one of the most grueling
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Already, this has been Chelsea FCW’s best ever season. The Blues have been showered in confetti twice already, after winning the league and the league cup. So it’s also a fair bit of genuine irony – not the Alanis Morisette kind – that Chelsea have achieved it all the hard way.
Heading into the 2020-21 season Chelsea faced a lot of questions? What kind of form would Fran Kirby be in? How would the previous season’s top scorer, Bethany England (14 goals, 15 assists in 15 games) fit with Sam Kerr and now Pernille Harder? What about last season’s top assister, Guro Reiten (7 assists, 5 goals)? How do you fit all of the attackers on the pitch? What formation will Emma Hayes deploy? How will other summer signing Melanie Leupolz integrate in midfield? And, assuming all that could get sorted: how good can we really be?
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ENGLAND and Manchester City forward Chloe Kelly has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, her club have announced.
The 23-year-old sustained the knee injury in Sunday’s 4-0 Women’s Super League (WSL) victory over Birmingham at the Academy Stadium, in which she scored twice.
The news that Kelly, a WSL player of the season nominee, is set for “an extended spell” out of action comes with Great Britain’s squad for the summer’s Tokyo Olympics to be named later this month.
Manchester City said in a statement: “Chloe Kelly is set for an extended spell on the sidelines after suffering an ACL injury to her right knee in Sunday’s Barclays FA Women’s Super League fixture against Birmingham City.
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