Leicester and Chelsea Managers Discuss 1-1 Draw

Chelsea’s perfect start to the season concluded on Saturday as Leicester City secured a hard-fought 1-1 draw at King Power Stadium. Below are the post-match comments from both managers. Amandine Miquel, Leicester’s manager, offered her perspective: “We were willing to give them a lot of trouble, it went very well because we scored on a rare occasion that we had, we have to be honest, we didn’t have that many, but to be able to lead against this type of team and hold it so long is very important mentally for our team to move on from here.” She added, “We tried to come out from the back, we wanted to attract them and it worked well with our different combinations that were to move up the pitch. And for once we had a bit more technical quality, which allowed us to get close to the goal and to keep the ball more. It’s all down to technical quality sometimes.” Chelsea’s manager, Sonia Bompastor, expressed her disappointment: “Really frustrated about the performance today and the result. When we talk abut ambitions we need to turn our words into action and I need the players to be ready from the start of the game.” She continued, “I give credit to Leicester because they were strong defensively. It was mentally tough. We have more talent than that and we should be able to beat this team today. If you have ambitions to finish at the top of the table then you cannot drop points like we did today.” Bompastor concluded, “It’s good now to see how we react from that and we analyse the performance to see how we move forward. We will stay together no matter what as that’s really important.”