Bompastor, 45, had a stellar first year in charge of Chelsea, winning a domestic treble and going through the Women’s Super League season unbeaten.<\/p>\n
This year has been more of a struggle, with the Blues nine points behind leaders Manchester City and facing a first season since 2018-19 without being crowned champions.<\/p>\n
“We aim to always be front-footed and play with intensity,” she added. “Sometimes, as much as we want to do that, some things don’t allow us to.<\/p>\n
“If a goalkeeper goes to ground, you have to tell every player to stay on the pitch and not allow them to talk to the coach. It should be simple.”<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Manchester United goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce went down with no-one around her in the 25th minute when her side trailed London City Lionesses and came under sustained pressure.<\/p>\n
While she was attended to for about two minutes, many of the United players went to the sidelines for a drink and to receive instructions from the coaching staff<\/p>\n
Inside three minutes later, Jess Park levelled the scores.<\/p>\n
In fairness to United, their boss Marc Skinner has also suggested the practice needs to be addressed, saying previously: “From my perspective, I’d happily explore it because we regularly face it ourselves.”<\/p>\n
Such incidences are common in the WSL – and Bompastor agreed with Slegers that they harm the appeal of the competition.<\/p>\n
“We need to understand that fans are coming to watch us on the pitch,” she added. “They want to see a lot of rhythm, a lot of playing time as that is part of the entertainment as well.”<\/p>\n
The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has recognised the practice as a problem but has yet to agree a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bompastor, 45, had a stellar first year in charge of Chelsea, winning a domestic treble and going through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-478486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}