{"id":7907,"date":"2026-01-29T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/bompastor-tracks-back-on-wsl-title-gone-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:26:15","slug":"bompastor-tracks-back-on-wsl-title-gone-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/bompastor-tracks-back-on-wsl-title-gone-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bompastor tracks back on WSL title &#8216;gone&#8217; comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/topics\/cn91vqq4d5wt\">Emma Sanders<\/a>BBC Sport women\u2019s football news reporter<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published11 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor has tracked back on her comments saying the WSL title is &quot;probably over&quot; by insisting her side will &quot;never give up&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues, who have won six successive WSL titles and went unbeaten domestically in Bompastor&#x27;s debut season, trail leaders Manchester City by nine points.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea travel to City on Sunday (14:30 GMT), knowing anything other than a victory will all but end their title hopes. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy8pggxv2xlo\">Bompastor admitted doubts<\/a> after their 2-0 loss by Arsenal last Saturday, while City held their nerve to bag a late winner against London City Lionesses.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time a Chelsea manager has publicly conceded the title was lost before the end of the season when predecessor <a href=\"text=Chelsea%20manager%20Emma%20Hayes%20said,second%20defeat%20in%20four%20days.\">Emma Hayes infamously did just that<\/a> after a 4-3 loss at Liverpool in May 2024. <\/p>\n<p>That result meant with three games to go, Chelsea had a six-point deficit to chase, but they usurped Manchester City on goal difference on the final day.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if this was mind games by Bompastor, she said: &quot;No, our mentality is to fight until the end, no matter what happens. We will never give up. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;There are nine games left in the WSL. The only thing is that we are not in control of it. Manchester City are leading the table and are in control. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We just need to make sure we focus on how we want to perform and to give ourselves a better chance to win. Every game is a must-win game for Chelsea. We will never give up.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Chelsea dropped just six points in the WSL all season, drawing three but winning the other 19 of their 22 matches.<\/p>\n<p>They won the Women&#x27;s FA Cup and Women&#x27;s League Cup to complete an historic, unbeaten treble for Bompastor&#x27;s side.<\/p>\n<p>It helped them on their way to a 34-game unbeaten league run until a <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/live\/cd9zl1n7y03t\">shock 1-0 defeat<\/a> by struggling Everton in December. <\/p>\n<p>That came after successive league draws with Liverpool and Arsenal, before a second defeat of the season <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/live\/cy09kxv8zpjt\">came at Stamford Bridge last weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Bompastor says the unusual nature of their success last season has helped give them perspective in this &quot;frustrating&quot; period.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s why I think we&#x27;re not really down. Of course, we are disappointed and frustrated not to be getting better results but even last season when we were winning a lot of games, we were not really high,&quot; said Bompastor. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I said it last season when people thought it was easy for us to win games \u2013 it wasn&#x27;t. We were humble and knew we had to work hard to have that season. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Right now, it is also important to not get too low. We are really confident with the quality in the squad and I have seen reactions in training this week.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Haines, Ellen White and Jen Beattie are back for another season of the Women&#x27;s Football Weekly podcast. New episodes drop every Tuesday on BBC Sounds, plus find interviews and extra content from the Women&#x27;s Super League and beyond on the <a href=\"\/sounds\/brand\/p0bzmv49\">Women&#x27;s Football Weekly feed<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/womens-super-league\">Women&#x27;s Super League<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/womens\">Women&#x27;s Football<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/womens-super-league\">\n<p>Get the latest WSL news on our dedicated page<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bompastor tracks back on WSL title &#x27;gone&#x27; commentsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Sonia Bompastor led Chelsea to a domestic treble in her debut seasonByEmma SandersBBC Sport women\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}