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Chelsea have been drawn against Real Madrid and Arsenal’s conquerors Paris FC in the Women’s Champions League group stage mobile
Emma Hayes’ side, beaten finalists in 2021, will also face Swedish outfit Hacken in Group D mobile
French side Paris beat last season’s semi-finalists Arsenal on penalties in the first qualifying round on their way to this phase of the competition for the first time mobile
Neighbours Paris Saint-Germain, who dispensed with WSL runners-up Manchester United in the second qualifying round, have been drawn in Group C along with Bayern Munich, Roma and Ajax mobile
Eight-times winners Lyon face Slavia Prague, St Polten and Brann - who beat Scottish champions Glasgow City to reach this stage for the first time - while reigning champions Barcelona were paired with Rosengard, Benfica and Eintracht Frankfurt mobile
Chelsea were beaten by Barcelona in last season’s semi-finals, following a memorable quarter-final victory against the holders Lyon mobile
Meanwhile, Manchester United manager Marc Skinner clarified his comments around the Champions League qualifying format after suggesting it was “crazy” United played PSG in a qualifying round mobile
After finishing second in the Women’s Super League last season, United went through the competition’s qualifying rounds and were knocked out at the second hurdle on Wednesday night after being beaten 4-2 on aggregate by PSGLast year’s WSL winners Chelsea earned an automatic group spot, while third-placed Arsenal went into the qualifiers, where they were eliminated by Paris FC in the first round mobile
Skinner said: “My comment was much more about the breadth and quality, I believe there is a need for more teams to be in this competition, and then you’ll see who is average and who isn’t mobile
“Who knows, we might have been average in a group stage, you don’t know that mobile
If there was any offence taken then I’m sorry for that, but that’s not what I meant mobile
“What I meant, and I’ll be clear on it, was I think there should be a broader scope of teams and there should be more teams in this competition so that we can actually then see where the elite level lies within Europe mobile
“I still think that’s a bit cloudy because the reality is, if we were playing a team that are from - what people might believe- to be a league that doesn’t have the experience, then we don’t know until we’ve played those, we only ever play those teams in friendlies mobile
“If you really want the real quality from all of the European leagues to rise, then you’ve got to play them against each other, which I think now other teams are ready for mobile
“If you enter that stage and are getting through, then congratulations mobile
We’re not there so we can talk about what that looks like, but they are there so congratulations to everyone who’s gone through mobile
”Chelsea are now the only WSL team left in the competition, and Arsenal manager Jonas Eidevall believes that English teams need to improve mobile
He told a press conference: “We’re number four in Europe [in UEFA’s coefficient rankings] mobile
We can’t say that’s anyone else’s problem except our own mobile
We need to improve, English teams have not done well enough in Europe mobile
“The Conti Cup group that Manchester United are in now might be tougher than some Women’s Champions League groups mobile
But [UEFA] need to grow all of women’s mobile football in Europe - that’s really important mobile
They can’t only take [WSL] opinions into account mobile
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Mauricio Pochettino says Reece James’ “leadership” is why he handed him the Chelsea captaincy and defended the full-back after he picked up a suspension during his side’s 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa last month mobile
James, who did not play the match through injury, was suspended for Chelsea’s win over Burnley for aiming “abusive words” at a match official in the tunnel during the clash at Stamford Bridge and was ordered to pay a £90,000 fine mobile
But Pochettino has seen James’ leadership attributes and believes his actions were a mistake fuelled by frustration after he sustained a hamstring injury in August mobile
“Why did I choose him as captain? Because of his personality, his leadership, the respect he has from the club and his team-mates and he has my full respect also,” Pochettino said mobile
“Chelsea is in his DNA and when you see the squad he is not only for the present, he is for the future and in this moment Chelsea need someone like that mobile
“I think he was upset with the situation mobile
He was so committed with this project from the beginning, he felt really bad because he could not help the team mobile
“He made a mistake but he’s young and he can make mistakes mobile
He was really sorry about that situation and I don’t think it will be repeated mobile
“Even myself at Burnley I got a yellow card at half-time and I’m 51 years old; sometimes a young guy can make a mistake, he was frustrated because he could not help the team mobile
”Pochettino said that James’ fitness “will be assessed” ahead of Saturday’s clash against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, quashing reports the full-back suffered a setback in his recovery mobile
James has only started 22 times in the Premier League since January 2022 after a raft of injury issues mobile
Pochettino added: “He is much mobile better, he’s doing well and he’s progressing mobile
He’s not at his best and is not 100 per cent, but he is in a position to help the team at some point and he is close mobile
“What we are going to do is to avoid that (surgery) and we are building a strategy for him, to put him at his best and keep him at his best mobile
“We are confident (of this) mobile
Always confident mobile
”Mykhailo Mudryk scored his first competitive goal for Chelsea during their 2-0 victory over Fulham and he opened his account for Ukraine when he netted against Malta in a Euro 2024 qualifier on Tuesday mobile
Pochettino is happy with the winger’s progress after the 22-year-old struggled to adapt to life in west London following his big-money move from Shakhtar Donetsk in January mobile
He said: “We are so happy with him mobile
He’s changed a lot in the last three months since we first met him and he’s a completely different person and we can see how lovely, sensitive, smart and clever he is mobile
“It is so important to give confidence and when people trust they can be open and express their talent and Misha (Mudryk) is doing really well with his relationships with the team and club mobile
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