Karen Carney backs 'ruthless' Sonia Bompastor to lead Chelsea Women to quadruple - 'They have every element'
Published 19/03/2025 at 20:35 GMT
With one trophy already in their locker, TNT Sports expert Karen Carney is predicting that Chelsea can win the quadruple this season. The Blues are chasing their first European glory, but have already lifted the League Cup, are in the last four of the FA Cup and sit eight points clear at the top of the Women's Super League. Carney believes Sonia Bompastor's side have what it takes to win the lot.
‘Ruthless’ Bompastor can win quadruple with Chelsea - Carney
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TNT Sports expert Karen Carney is backing Chelsea to "do the quadruple" this season.
Ahead of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg against Manchester City, shown live on TNT Sports and discovery+, The Blues were undefeated across all competitions, winning 26 of their 28 matches.
That included lifting the Women's League Cup, thanks to a 2-1 victory over Manchester City at Pride Park earlier this month.
It means Sonia Bompastor has had a remarkable start to life in the dugout, having replaced Emma Hayes last summer.
And Carney thinks the new manager has helped take an already vastly successful group of players to the next level.
"Emma (Hayes, former manager) gave Sonia a brilliant squad," she told TNT Sports. "Sonia has come in and added even more to the group, in terms of Naomi Girma, Lucy Bronze, Keira Walsh.
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"She's added a winning mentality to an already successful team.
"And she's got that mentality. Sometimes it's nice to have a different voice in the camp and the group, but she's ruthless. I played against her. She was ruthless as a player.
"You can see in her mentality and how she tells players to get to bed after cup finals, no celebrating.
"There's no way they're not having conversations about that quadruple, with people like Millie Bright and Lucy Bronze in that dressing room.
"I think they've got every chance to go and do the quadruple, because they have got every element in that fantastic squad."
'Most competitive human I've ever come across'
Alongside their League Cup triumph, Chelsea sit eight points clear at the top of the Women's Super League, and are into the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-finals.
They also have a Women's FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool to look forward to in mid-April.
It could, therefore, be an unprecedented season for the Blues, who are attempting to win a continental trophy for the first time.
They have previously reached the final of the competition, but were beaten by Barcelona in 2021.
Alongside Bompastor's leadership off the field, Carney says there is one player in particular who has had a big influence since joining the club last summer.
"If you want to go and add a serial winner, you go and get Lucy Bronze," she continued. "She's probably, for me, the most competitive human I've ever come across, literally an ultimate winner.
"That's what I joked about when Sonia got asked about that quadruple. Lucy will be in there going, 'That's one down, three more to go'.
"She'll be there to go and do it. She wants to break every record possible, and she's got every element.
"She's made that line better. She's brilliant, isn't she?"
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