WSL season opener at Stamford Bridge | KO 7.30pm BST
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Australian right-back Ellie Carpenter, signed from Lyon, makes her debut for Chelsea. The bench includes Sam Kerr, out for 20 months with an ACL injury; the club’s new signing Alyssa Thompson isn’t involved tonight.
City start their new signings Sydney Lohmann and Jade Rose, with Laura Wienrother and Iman Beney on the bench. Gracie Prior and Lily Murphy, two homegrown players with a combined age of 39, are in the City XI, but the new signing Grace Clinton didn’t travel with the squad.
Chelsea (4-2-3-1) Hampton; Carpenter, Bjorn, Bright, Charles; Walsh, Kaptein; Hamano, Cuthbert, Baltimore; Beever-Jones.
