Beattie believes Chelsea’s problems stem from too many changes to the starting XI.<\/p>\n
The Blues have made 25 changes to their starting line-ups in the WSL this season – five more than any other side.<\/p>\n
“They have to keep everyone happy and rotate to an extent, but I don’t know, I always felt as a player you have to keep some level of consistency in order to keep that form,” Beattie told the Women’s Football Weekly podcast.<\/p>\n
Aggie Beaver-Jones started the campaign as Chelsea’s out-and-out striker, leading the line in their opening seven games before suffering an injury on international duty with England last month.<\/p>\n
Catarina Macario has also been used as a central striker, while the club’s record signing Alyssa Thompson has not yet cemented a regular place in Bompastor’s starting line-ups – starting just twice in the WSL.<\/p>\n
Australia forward Sam Kerr has returned from a lengthy spell on the sidelines, coming off the bench in seven games this term, and Lauren James has also come back into the fold as another attacking option for Bompastor.<\/p>\n
“I totally agree with what Jen’s saying in terms of the lack of consistency in that starting XI,” ex-England striker Ellen White added.<\/p>\n
“They had some injuries, and obviously they are playing three, four days back-to-back all the time, and that rotation is obviously needed for recovery and for freshness as well.<\/p>\n
“But it’s just trying to get that rhythm and that consistency and that flow and those connections. It just wasn’t quite working at the weekend.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beattie believes Chelsea’s problems stem from too many changes to the starting XI. The Blues have made 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-146811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}