FC Twente 1-3 Chelsea: Guro Reiten's 50th Blues goal seals Women's Champions League win

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Aggie Beever-Jones fired the visitors into a seventh-minute pb successful Enschede earlier a stunning long-range effort from Maika Hamano doubled their vantage earlier the break.

Reiten's spot-kick made it 3 aft the restart, but the visitors were capable to claw a consolation backmost via Nikee van Dijk successful the 68th minute.

Sonia Bompastor's Women's Super League champions inhabit apical spot successful Group B aft present making it 2 radical signifier wins from two.

There was a last-minute alteration to Bompastor's line-up, with Johanna Rytting Kaneryd replacing Lauren James.

Beever-Jones rapidly fired Chelsea successful beforehand with an effort from 20 yards retired that took a deflection earlier going in.

Hamano added a 2nd 11 minutes later, playing a one-two with Wieke Kaptein earlier launching the shot from a sizeable distance.

Twente's Olivia Clark had travel disconnected her enactment and the Japan international's effort from 40 yards retired sailed implicit the diving goalkeeper earlier dipping nether the crossbar.

Hamano soon gave the shot distant to let the hosts a accidental of their own, with Wolfsburg loanee Ella Peddemors trying to propulsion a extremity backmost with a long-range effort of her ain that sailed implicit the bar.

Twente were increasing into the crippled and had their champion accidental of the opening fractional hr erstwhile van Dijk forced Zecira Musovic into a debased save, portion an unmarked Beever-Jones was off-target with a nodded effort from a corner.

Reiten scored her 50th extremity for Chelsea

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The hosts were increasing into the crippled but it was the Blues who continued to bask what fewer chances remained successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Kaneryd looked to widen Chelsea's vantage but fired straight astatine Clark.

Bompastor made 2 changes for the 2nd half, bringing connected Maelys Mpome for Kadeisha Buchanan, who passed the captain's armband to Reiten, replacing Sandy Baltimore.

Chelsea had constricted their opponents to a azygous changeable connected people earlier the break, but the location broadside added different erstwhile van Dijk launched an effort astatine Musovic from conscionable wrong the 18-yard box.

Hamano threatened again, this clip directing an effort conscionable wide of the close station earlier Bompastor swapped Oriane Jean-Francois for Erin Cuthbert and Kaneryd made mode for Mayra Ramirez connected the hour.

Twente had different accidental erstwhile Kayleigh van Dooren sped forward, her tally yet breached up by Nathalie Bjorn to contradict her a shot, and the visitors recovered themselves further down erstwhile Lieske brought down Ramirez.

Reiten stepped up for the resulting spot-kick, sending Clark the incorrect mode arsenic she picked retired the bottommost close corner, but the three-goal pb was short-lived.

An fantabulous shot from Peddemors played van Dijk through, and the 21-year-old powered forward, outpacing Bjorn earlier scoring with a debased effort past the outstretched Musovic.

There were much changes from some bosses and it was the visitors who continued to predominate arsenic the last 10 minutes approached, portion a elemental last halt by Musovic denied Twente substitute Jaimy Ravensbergen a precocious goal.

Additional reporting from PA

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