Sonia Bompastor offers harm replace for 2 key Chelsea gamers
Chelsea supervisor Sonia Bompastor has offered a recent harm replace on two instrumental gamers, who’ve had little to no motion this season.
Lauren James has been sidelined since October after sustaining a calf harm taking part in for the Blues within the UEFA Girls’s Champions League.
The incident additionally dominated her out of each England’s most up-to-date worldwide breaks, which noticed them come up in opposition to Germany, South Africa, the U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff and Switzerland.
Regardless of claims the 23-year-old would seemingly make a return forward of Chelsea’s Girls’s Tremendous League conflict with Brighton this weekend, Bompastor revealed to media on Friday that “it will be troublesome to see her earlier than the tip of the yr”.
“She’s in a very good place mentally,” she mentioned. “We expect her to have the ability to play with us in January. I knew from the start that it was going to be longer than six weeks, I used to be simply attempting to be optimistic. I knew it might be troublesome for her to come back again earlier than January.
“She is progressing. I noticed her on the pitch, and he or she’s beginning to run and contact the ball, so it is a good signal and he or she shall be recent for January for certain.”
The five-time WSL title winners are sitting high of the desk, 5 factors forward of Manchester Metropolis, because the 2024/25 marketing campaign nears the midway mark. It was clear from the beginning that the staff had maintained their excessive requirements underneath the brand new stewardship of Bompastor after the exit of Emma Hayes.
Nonetheless, they’ve remained with out striker Sam Kerr within the course of. The 31-year-old tore her anterior cruciate ligament in January, seeing her miss the second half of the 2023/24 marketing campaign in addition to each recreation this present season.
Though Bompastor hinted in November that Kerr may very well be again in coaching by the tip of the calendar yr, she has since mentioned that will not occur.
“We want to have Sam again with us both in February or March,” defined Bompastor. “She did not begin coaching but, even being modified within the group. She’s nonetheless in her particular person strategy of rehabilitation and I feel it would take no less than two or three months for her to be match sufficient to be with the squad.”
