Chelsea have began the season in sensational fashion, successful their opening eight league video games with 26 objectives scored and three towards.
Within the Ladies’s Champions League – the one piece of silverware that eluded Hayes earlier than she left to take cost of america ladies’s nationwide group – they sealed their place within the quarter-finals by successful 4 out of 4.
Bompastor led Lyon to glory within the competitors in 2021-22, in addition to three home league titles, and has already set her sights on extra success with the Blues.
Manchester Metropolis, extensively tipped to finish Chelsea’s stranglehold on the title after lacking out final season via purpose distinction, already path the leaders by 5 factors after eight video games.
So, is the title race already over?
“You do not wish to say it, as a result of we’re solely in November,” stated former Aston Villa boss Carla Ward on BBC Radio 5 Stay. “Nevertheless, it seems to be an actual powerful job for the opposite groups to catch up.
“It simply seems to be like such a mountain to climb. You are Chelsea dropping factors in two or three video games and the best way they’re taking part in on the minute that does not look potential.”
Chelsea do not get carried away both.
“I feel it is nonetheless so early and I feel a lot can change with the quantity of competitions we’ll be competing in and the heavy sport load,” added captain Millie Shiny.
“I feel something’s potential, something can change. We noticed that final season in how one week we have been out of the title race and the subsequent week we have been successful it.”