Chelsea have began the season in sensational taste, successful their opening 8 league video games with 26 targets scored and 3 towards.
Within the Girls’s Champions League – the only piece of silverware that eluded Hayes earlier than she left to take rate of america girls’s nationwide staff – they sealed their position within the quarter-finals by means of successful 4 out of 4.
Bompastor led Lyon to glory within the pageant in 2021-22, in addition to 3 home league titles, and has already set her attractions on extra luck with the Blues.
Manchester Town, broadly tipped to finish Chelsea’s stranglehold at the name after lacking out final season via purpose distinction, already path the leaders by means of 5 issues after 8 video games.
So, is the name race already over?
“You do not want to mention it, as a result of we are best in November,” mentioned former Aston Villa boss Carla Ward on BBC Radio 5 Are living. “Alternatively, it appears an actual tricky task for the opposite groups to catch up.
“It simply seems like the sort of mountain to climb. You are looking at Chelsea shedding issues in two or 3 video games and the way in which they’re enjoying on the minute that does not glance imaginable.”
Chelsea don’t seem to be getting over excited both.
“I believe it is nonetheless so early and I believe such a lot can exchange with the quantity of competitions we are going to be competing in and the heavy recreation load,” added captain Millie Vivid.
“I believe the rest’s imaginable, the rest can exchange. We noticed that final season in how one week we had been out of the name race and the following week we had been successful it.”