Chelsea into UWCL semis & Houghton to retire
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Somers has reaction to Chelsea’s win in the UEFA Women’s Champions League. She’s joined by Gilly Flaherty, Pat Nevin and commentator Vicki Sparks after Chelsea came through Ajax with a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge and 4-1 win on aggregate. Hear from Emma Hayes. And the panel react to Steph Houghton announcing she will retire at the end of the season.
00:40 Was quality of finishing the difference? 03:40 Ajax may regret missed chances 04:45 Mayra Ramírez continues to impress 07:10 Erin Cuthbert ‘does what she always does’ 10:30 What will Chelsea need to improve? 11:45 Can Chelsea win the quadruple? 17:15 Emma Hayes: “It’s given me selection problems” 19:20 Steph Houghton to retire at end of season
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| 0:47.0 | The party has started at Stamford Bridge. |
| 0:49.7 | Chelsea have done it. They're into the Champions League semifinals, their fifth European |
| 0:54.6 | semifinal in six seasons. It's one one on the night, four one on aggregate against |
| 0:59.6 | Iax. Emma Hayes's side continue their quest for a first Champions League and a quadruple in Hayes's last season in the Chelsea dug out. |
| 1:09.2 | Pat Nevin, Jillie Flattie and Vicky Sparks have been here at Stanford Bridge with me and Pat a comfortable |
| 1:14.4 | win for Chelsea overall but was the difference over the two legs the |
| 1:19.2 | finishing do you think? It was 100% and the good and the bad finishing. |
| 1:23.2 | The very good finishing for Chelsea but really actually quite poor in some of the cases. |
| 1:27.8 | It was real shame though because it was a couple of times looked at the second half |
| 1:31.2 | really caught them well but they were great saves but there was a few other things and in the first leg where you thought no you've got to do better than that she kept on and another a number of other Iax players got themselves into very good positions but the very, very |
| 1:46.3 | top level of European football, you put a good position to your chances away and the difference was |
| 1:51.6 | you looked at Ramirez when she was winning one at the end |
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