Emma Hayes desires Chelsea to get even higher forward of the beginning of their Ladies’s Tremendous League title defence.
Chelsea had been as a consequence of begin their season in opposition to West Ham at Stamford Bridge final weekend however, with the opening-day programme postponed following the dying of the Queen, the Blues will now kick-off at promoted Liverpool on Sunday.
“I simply wish to get higher, I’m not targeted on successful,” boss Hayes mentioned at her pre-match press convention.
“I wish to ensure that coaching is high class and that the starters I choose carry out on the ranges we demand on this atmosphere.”
5 internationals – Kadeisha Buchanan, Jelena Cankovic, Eve Perisset, Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and Katerina Svitkova – have arrived since final season when Chelsea accomplished a league and FA Cup double.
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Hayes mentioned: “It’s good at all times to see high gamers coming into our league and each single certainly one of them has settled.
“It’s not a European championship the place you’ve bought to play perhaps six video games, these gamers have gotten to play 44 video games minimally.”
Liverpool received final season’s FA Ladies’s Championship by an 11-point margin, and former Chelsea boss Matt Beard says his gamers are excited by the Prenton Park conflict with the champions and the marketing campaign forward.
Beard mentioned: “We really feel we’re geared up… and we will compete on this division.
“I really feel the gamers now we have added have strengthened the XI and competitors for locations. That was one thing that was actually vital to do, particularly with the recruitment.
“Chelsea are a implausible staff. However we might be setting as much as attempt to get one thing out of the sport, and I’m assured we may give an excellent account of ourselves.”
Manchester Metropolis, third final season, begin out at Aston Villa after a summer time that noticed a big turnover of gamers.
Keira Walsh and Lucy Bronze (each Barcelona), Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich) and Caroline Weir (Actual Madrid) had been high-profile departures to Europe, whereas Ellen White, Jill Scott and Karen Bardsley all retired.
A brand new-look Metropolis squad contains Kerstin Casparij, Deyna Castellanos, Laia Aleixandri, Mary Fowler (Montpellier), Leila Ouahabi and goalkeeper Sandy MacIver.
Boss Gareth Taylor mentioned: “I’d ask the followers to be affected person as a result of I feel we’ve actually invested in the way forward for these gamers.
“I feel there was naturally going to be a fair-sized turnover in some unspecified time in the future whenever you take a look at the character of the group that left.
“For the supporters – we’re on the case. We’re actually attempting to be the most effective model of ourselves.”
All of it begins tomorrow.
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Tottenham start their marketing campaign at Leicester keen to construct on final season’s fifth-place end.
Rehanne Skinner’s facet missed out on internet hosting Manchester United on the membership’s 62,850-seater stadium final weekend however the Spurs boss hopes they may return there quickly.
Skinner mentioned: “Everybody can admire the scheduling round that with males’s video games and broadcast video games, it’s a logistical problem however the intent from the membership is to get us within the stadium for as many video games as we will.”
West Ham host Everton at Dagenham with new boss Paul Konchesky having made 12 summer time signings.
“I’m actually trying ahead to my first aggressive match,” mentioned Konchesky, who spent two seasons as a West Ham participant and scored within the 2006 FA Cup ultimate in opposition to Liverpool.
“To have the ability to stroll out for the primary time and stand within the dugout in entrance of our followers – which can embody a few of my household – might be a particular feeling.”
