{"id":785476,"date":"2026-09-28T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785476\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:12:13","slug":"chelseas-lexi-potter-could-midfielder-be-englands-next-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785476\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea’s Lexi Potter: Could midfielder be England’s next star?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Potter’s performance against Arsenal was the latest in a string of displays that have pleased manager Sonia Bompastor.<\/p>\n

The Chelsea academy graduate broke through last season, scoring the winner on her first WSL start against Brighton<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

It came after a two-year spell on loan at Crystal Palace where she gained regular first-team football and has already notched up 20 appearances.<\/p>\n

This season Potter has stepped up, starting alongside England midfielder Walsh in three of Chelsea’s four WSL matches.<\/p>\n

Their partnership is flourishing and it has allowed Walsh to push further up the pitch and provide a goalscoring threat for the Blues.<\/p>\n

Their winner against Arsenal came as a result of Walsh’s saved shot falling to the feet of Alyssa Thompson, while Potter herself scored in the 2-0 victory over Birmingham.<\/p>\n

When asked about Potter’s impact, Bompastor said: “I was really happy with Lexi last season, though she probably didn’t get as many opportunities as this season. <\/p>\n

“For her age, being able to be consistent and in the way that she has been performing, I think it’s great. <\/p>\n

“People were probably looking at [the Arsenal game] to see her in a big occasion and whether she was able to repeat and sustain the performance.<\/p>\n

“I think she proved that she can. Keira [Walsh] is playing at that level because she has more freedom to go forward by having Lexi next to her.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Potter’s performance against Arsenal was the latest in a string of displays that have pleased manager Sonia Bompastor.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}