{"id":355952,"date":"2025-12-18T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355952\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:33:09","slug":"uefa-womens-champions-league-live-knockout-phase-draw-in-nyon-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355952\/","title":{"rendered":"Uefa Women’s Champions League LIVE: Knockout phase draw in Nyon, Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea impress on way to last eightpublished at 10:40 GMT<\/p>\n

10:40 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Emma Sanders
BBC Sport women\u2019s football news reporter<\/p>\n

Chelsea’s campaign got off to an underwhelming start when they drew 1-1 with FC Twente in October, but since then they have looked impressive, scored bucketloads of goals, and remained unbeaten.<\/p>\n

They finished third in the table with four wins from six, scoring 20 goals and conceding just three – only Barcelona matched their goal difference.<\/p>\n

Sonia Bompastor’s side have had their fair share of European heartbreak, often at the hands of three-time champions Barcelona, who beat them 8-2 on aggregate in last season’s semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Yet the Blues were the only team to take points off Barcelona in this year’s league phase, securing a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge in November.<\/p>\n

That put them in a strong position to secure a top-four automatic qualification spot and they pounced on the opportunity, with a ruthless 6-0 win over St Polten followed by Wednesday’s massive win at Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n

Chelsea will face either Manchester United or Arsenal in the quarter-finals should their English rivals both win their two-legged play-offs.<\/p>\n

They cannot meet Barcelona or eight-time winners Lyon until at least the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

As well as their strong results, Chelsea have been boosted by the return of injured players, most notably forwards Sam Kerr and Lauren James.<\/p>\n

With number one goalkeeper Hannah Hampton also set to return following the winter break, Bompastor’s squad are well placed to chase an elusive European title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea impress on way to last eightpublished at 10:40 GMT 10:40 GMT Emma SandersBBC Sport women\u2019s football news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-355952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}