Chelsea in hunt for four trophies after Christmas break proves to be the perfect gift as WSL returns
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It was an incredible first half of the season at Chelsea and, after a break and some warm-weather training, we are bracing ourselves for what is to come in the next four months. We dropped just two points in the Women’s Super League, at Leicester in our final match before the festive break, and are into the quarter-finals of the Champions League but now have the FA Cup and League Cup to contend with too. So suddenly we’ll be tackling four competitions instead of two.
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Our manager Sonia Bompastorstressed to us that if we go all the way in every competition, we could have another 25 games ahead of us between now and June. I came back to England for many reasons but one of those was the amount of fixtures. Here the schedule is, on the whole, much more manageable than in Spain when it comes to the amount of minutes in your legs.
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However, the noticeable difference between the two was the time off we got over Christmas – a great little break when, at Barcelona, we would normally have just four days to ourselves. The girls were all saying following the draw at Leicester last month that we felt we needed some time off! I think the schedule may have caught up with us slightly.
But it was nice to return to hard training in Portugal on our recent trip away, a period designed to get us prepared for a busy second half of the campaign. It was good to have our striker Sam Kerr over there with us after her long injury lay-off. I haven’t played with Sam yet since I signed last summer but of course she was one of the big names which helped attract me to the challenge of Chelsea.
