Predictions Women's Champions League - FC Twente Women vs Chelsea Women

Women's Champions League - FC Twente Women vs Chelsea Women
Match Time: 18-10-2024 02:00 Friday (GMT+7)
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Twente are making their first appearance in the Women's Champions League group stage after successfully negotiating their way through qualifying.

The Dutch champions dispatched Cardiff City and Valur in the first qualifying round, before they claimed a 8-1 aggregate victory over Osijek to seal their place in the main draw.

Twente went on to enjoy more success in their first group match as Kayleigh van Dooren netted a brace to record a 2-0 away victory over Celtic.

They would have been frustrated with Saturday's outing Excelsior, with Twente requiring an 80th-minute equaliser to salvage a 1-1 home draw against Excelsior.

While they would have left underwhelmed with that result, they will be pleased with the fact the draw extended their unbeaten start to the season to nine competitive matches.

They will have their work cut out to continue that unbeaten run in their first-ever meeting with Chelsea in the Women's Champions League.

Chelsea will travel to the Netherlands in high spirits after winning each of the first four matches of Sonia Bompastor's tenure.

The former Lyon boss kicked off her rein with league wins over Aston Villa and Crystal Palace, before her side got the better of Real Madrid in last week's European clash at Stamford Bridge.

Sjoeke Nusken, Guro Reiten and Mayra Ramirez all got on the scoresheet to fire Chelsea to a 3-2 victory, extending their unbeaten run in head-to-head meetings with Real Madrid to five matches.

The Blues enjoyed another successful outing in Saturday's Women's Super League clash against Arsenal, with Ramirez and Sandy Baltimore scoring inside the opening 20 minutes to guide their team to a 2-1 win at the Emirates Stadium.

As a result of that win, Chelsea have now gone seven competitive matches without defeat since losing 4-3 to Liverpool in May's WSL encounter.

The WSL champions will fancy their chances of extending their unbeaten run on Thursday, having won seven and drawn three of their previous 10 away European champions.

Prediction: FC Twente Women 1-3 Chelsea Women