Key events8 Oct 2025FULL-TIME: Twente 1-1 Chelsea8 Oct 2025GOAL! Twente 1-1 Chelsea (Baltimore pen 71)8 Oct 2025Penalty to Chelsea!8 Oct 2025GOAL! Twente 1-0 Chelsea (Van Ginkel 63)8 Oct 2025HALF-TIME: Twente 0-0 Chelsea8 Oct 2025Peeeeeeep!8 Oct 2025The teams8 Oct 2025PreambleShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSuzanne Wrack’s report is already in, so that’ll be all from me. Don’t forget to join Sarah for some more action:That’s a very awkward opening night for Chelsea, prompting discussion over whether Sonia Bompastor made a few too many changes to her starting XI. Twente’s game plan was a classic: hold the fort and launch on the break. They weren’t far off a famous win.FULL-TIME: Twente 1-1 ChelseaThey lost 9-2 to Chelsea across two matches last season. This time Twente have a well deserved point – the hugs out there suggest they’re chuffed with that.90+4 min: Chelsea launch their final waves …90+3 min: Cuthbert is very nearly in position to cut back from the right, inside the area, but loses her footing after gliding past a Twente shirt.90+2 min: Jean-François takes a tumble under pressure from Roord. They’ve had a decent battle in the middle tonight.90+1 min: Chelsea have a corner … but Cuthbert’s ball is headed away. Kaptein launches a powerful hit from range but it’s straight at Lemey.90 min: We have five minutes for a winner.89 min: It’s now attack versus defence …. but Roord picks up a loose ball to get Twente forward, until Buurman easily holds off Andradottir.87 min: Twente have a free-kick on the right-hand side, taken short. Time for another sub: the centre forward Ravensbergen makes way for Andradottir.85 min: Kerr’s glancing header in the area is blocked, with Twente continuing to resist.84 min: Chelsea have a free-kick from distance, with Beever-Jones ready to dink it into the area … Kerr gets the ball at the far post but instead of thundering a strike she opts for a ball across goal. Probably the wrong call.82 min: Carpenter snuffs out some danger on Twente’s left after Roord swept a ball over to Ivens.81 min: Roord jinks away inside the Twente half but her ball forward is to no-one in particular.79 min: Beever-Jones heads away inside her own area before Chelsea break away on the right, moving it central …. and Sarwie emerges at the edge of the area for the first-time hit! It flies over but that would have been a special moment for the teenager who has just come on.78 min: It’s a free-kick from a central position for Twente as Proost departs, replaced by Ivens …76 min: Cuthbert crosses high from the right … and Lemey is out to punch away.75 min: Tuin, the Twente left-back, is down after blocking a cross before Sarwie sees the ball on the left-hand side for Chelsea.73 min: The game remains open as Proost threatens at the other end … though she was offside to begin with. Sam Kerr and Chloe Sarwie, 16 years young, make their way on to the field.GOAL! Twente 1-1 Chelsea (Baltimore pen 71)Easily done. Lemey dives to her left, Baltimore slots it into the vacant space. Chelsea are finally up and running.Sandy Baltimore cooly slots homes and Chelsea are level. Photograph: Marcel ter Bals/MTB-Photo/ShutterstockPenalty to Chelsea!70 min: Reiten is tripped after some nifty footwork, just inside the area, fouled by Groenewegen …69 min: Twente change things up, with Elberink off for Van der Vegt.67 min: It’s Beever-Jones’ turn to smash the ball over, stealing the effort from the onrushing Cuthbert inside the area.67 min: Chelsea are starting to pepper the goal, with Cuthbert now firing over. The urgency is there, courtesy of the scoreboard.65 min: Kaptein very nearly equalises, meeting a Carpenter cut-back from the right with a first-time effort inside the area … but the ball hits the side-netting.Jill Roord makes a smart run into the left channel, sets the ball back for Van Ginkel, on the edge of the area, and she lasers a drive into the top right corner. It’s been coming in the last few minutes, a deserved moment for the hosts.GOAL! Twente 1-0 Chelsea (Van Ginkel 63)The heist is on!Danique van Ginkel scores for the home side! Photograph: Leiting Gao/SPP/Shutterstock61 min: Thompson, who deserved something for her efforts this evening, is off. Rytting Kaneryd is on.60 min: Twente have just begin to turn it on in the last few minutes, with Roord finding space in the middle among tired legs. They launch a couple of waves before Knol tries an ambitious effort from miles out, failing to test the target.58 min: … there’s a brief bit of chaos in the six-yard box but Twente break away, with Proost winning the ball on the left. She can’t find a teammate before Tuin whips in a delicious delivery, very nearly finding Elberink at the far post. Twente are more than capable of pulling off a heist here.57 min: Carpenter and Thompson connect again down the right to win a corner ….53 min: Ouch. Nüsken and Gronewegen are down after a clash. Chelsea use the moment to make some changes, with Cuthbert and Kaptein on – Nüsken makes way, as does Hamano.52 min: Thompson remains a bundle of energy down the right while attacking and sprinting back to track runs.50 min: Thompson has the ball in the net … but the flag goes up. It’s actually Nüsken who was offside, drifting into the area to receive from Baltimore before playing it across goal for a Thompson tap-in.48 min: Beever-Jones is suddenly through on goal and forces a save … but she was clearly offside, the flag eventually raised.Aggie Beever-Jones is well offside as she has an effort on goal saved. Photograph: Chris Lee/Chelsea FC/Getty Images46 min: And we’re back. Both sides remain the same as Twente win a free-kick by the halfway line … Vliek ventures down the right and directs a cross to Proost, who can’t middle an attempted volley inside the area.A strange half, dominated by Chelsea on the ball … yet it was Twente who had the clearest chance when Vliek burst through on the right and should have tested Peng in the Chelsea goal, instead of trying to square it. The English champions have whipped in cross after cross, with Baltimore and Carpenter lively down the wings – but they’ve also struggled to properly test out Lemey.HALF-TIME: Twente 0-0 ChelseaBuurman wins a free-kick from distance and Chelsea play it short, trying to cut through on the right … but the move breaks down with Carpenter. There’s no added time as we have a breather.43 min: Nüsken tries to dink the ball from the left-hand side … but the ball hits the ref. Thompson shoots from the right, her shot spilled by Lemey but cleared by Knol.41 min: Carpenter sends in a delicious ball from the right … but there’s no one taking a punt with a run into the six-yard box.40 min: It’s another Baltimore cross … but Tuin clears for Twente.39 min: Chelsea work it very nicely from one wing to another, the two centre-backs involved …. but Baltimore’s cross is into the keeper’s hands.37 min: A Chelsea corner sees the ball run to the edge of the area … Baltimore hits it beautifully first time, but it’s straight at the keeper.36 min: The ball bounces nicely for Nüsken at the edge of the area … but she opts against the shot. Thompson then crosses from the right and Reiten glances her header wide. Again, it just won’t go right when the ball lands in the middle.