Bompastor: Wembley final a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity for quadruple-chasing Chelsea

Chelsea must view the upcoming Women's FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as they bid for a quadruple.

That is the view of Blues manager Sonia Bompastor, whose side beat Liverpool 2-1 on Saturday to reach the Wembley showpiece.

Aggie Beever-Jones' 94th-minute header sealed Chelsea's progress, and they will now face either Manchester City or Manchester United in the final.

The Blues are leading the Women's Super League, in which they are unbeaten, and are also in the Champions League semi-finals. They have already scooped one trophy this season, in the form of the Women's League Cup.

"I think you could see in everyone's face at Chelsea, staff and players, a lot of smiles and a lot of happiness," said Bompastor as she urged her players to cherish another special moment during her first season in charge.

"I didn't want to talk a lot about it before the game, because it's a bit of a superstition as a manager, but I'm really happy.

"I said before the game, this stadium [Wembley] means a lot in the football world. I think everyone knows this stadium.

"Yeah, it has a big history. I had the opportunity to play in the semi-finals and the third and fourth place for the Olympics in 2012 as a player.

"But now, I think for the entire club, it's a huge opportunity to play in that stadium, to play in a final, and be part of that final at Wembley. Sometimes it only happens once in your life. So you need to be really happy about that."

Chelsea fell behind against Liverpool to Olivia Smith's first-half strike, but Erin Cuthbert equalised before Beever-Jones' late show.

And Bompastor praised her side's “ruthless mentality” at a crucial stage of the season.

She added: "You need to be strong, to stay strong defensively and yet to just be clinical when you have the opportunity to score.

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"We talked a lot before the game about having high standards going into these games, a ruthless mentality, a winning mentality. This is what I wanted to see from my players. I think for part of the game, we showed that."

The winning moment came in the dying embers of injury time, when Beever-Jones ghosted into space in the six-yard box and planted a header past Rachel Laws in the Liverpool goal.

Now into another final and sitting six points clear in the WSL just four games remaining, Bompastor hailed the work her team put in earlier in the campaign.

She said: "When you get to this moment of the season, you don't really get time with your team to work on your game model, your game plan.

"You expect from what you worked on in preseason, and at the beginning of the season, the players understand what you are trying to achieve on the pitch, and they are still able to achieve it now."