Chelsea ease past Celtic in Women's Champions League to seal quarter-final place

Chelsea person sealed their spot successful the quarter-finals of the Women’s Champions League.

Sonia Bompastor’s broadside cruised past Celtic 3-0 successful their latest Group B fixture astatine Stamford Bridge connected Wednesday nighttime to warrant advancement with 2 matches to spare.

Lucy Bronze netted an aboriginal volley to acceptable the Blues connected their mode to a comfy triumph successful westbound London, with Wieke Kaptein besides heading location earlier Eve Perisset’s last-gasp penalty.

Bompastor had demanded a accelerated commencement from Chelsea and she got it, with Bronze opening the scoring aft conscionable 65 seconds.

From a abbreviated corner, Catarina Macario sent successful a heavy transverse and Bronze hooked successful a volley astatine the acold post.

It was not the astir almighty of hits from the England right-back and Celtic goalkeeper Kelsey Daugherty got a manus to it, but she was incapable to support it out.

It was a nightmare commencement for the Scottish champions, inactive without a constituent successful their maiden radical signifier campaign.

They managed to dependable the ship, putting unneurotic immoderate neat spells of possession but without creating thing of note.

And Chelsea struck again from different country regular aft 25 minutes. This clip the shot came retired to Guro Reiten, whose inviting transportation into the container was powerfully headed location by Dutch teen Kaptein.

Bompastor, who made six changes from the squad which bushed Manchester City 2-0 connected Saturday, was capable to power things up astatine half-time and bring connected in-form Colombia guardant Mayra Ramirez for Macario, who is inactive moving her mode backmost to afloat fitness.

Chelsea poured guardant with Kaptein and Maelys Mpome seeing long-range shots alert narrowly implicit the crossbar portion Reiten's effort was cleared disconnected the enactment by Kelly Clark.

Kaptein should person recovered the nett connected the hr with different header from Bronze's transverse but planted the shot consecutive astatine Daugherty.

Millie Bright saw a goalbound header blocked from different country and Reiten's fierce thrust was charged down by Emma Lawton.

Ramirez astir added a 3rd erstwhile she tried to glimpse successful Ashley Lawrence's transverse astatine the adjacent station but the shot flew crossed extremity and wide.

With the timepiece ticking down determination was a large infinitesimal for 17-year-old Lola Brown arsenic Bompastor sent her connected for a elder debut.

But it looked arsenic though a 3rd extremity would elude Chelsea until, successful stoppage time, Bronze went connected a mazy tally into the container and her transverse was blocked by the limb of Shannon McGregor, allowing Perisset to lash location the spot-kick and adhd immoderate gloss to a satisfactory night's work.

Additional reporting by the Press Association.