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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 theyâ€ve also struggled to properly test out Lemey.

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HALF-TIME: Twente 0-0 Chelsea

Buurman 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. Thereâ€s no added time as we have a breather.

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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.

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41 min:Carpenter sends in a delicious ball from the right … but thereâ€s no one taking a punt with a run into the six-yard box.

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40 min: Itâ€s another Baltimore cross … but Tuin clears for Twente.

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39 min: Chelsea work it very nicely from one wing to another, the two centre-backs involved …. but Baltimoreâ€s cross is into the keeperâ€s hands.

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37 min: A Chelsea corner sees the ball run to the edge of the area … Baltimore hits it beautifully first time, but itâ€s straight at the keeper.

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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 wonâ€t go right when the ball lands in the middle.

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35 min: Reiten bursts down the left … but the crosses simply arenâ€t coming together for Chelsea.

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34 min: Roord holds off Jean-François and wins a free-kick before Twente try and work it down the right. Buurman is in the way, though.

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32 min: Van Ginkel is brought down on the edge of the Twente area by Hamano – Chelsea have just lost a bit of their rhythm in the last 10 minutes.

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31 min: Carpenter and Thompson play their one-twos on the right but the latter overhits a pass to send it out for a goalkick.

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29 min:Twente have an opening with a free-kick from the left, whipped in by Roord … but Carpenter gets in the way before a shot from the edge of the area is blasted high.

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28 min: Beever-Jones launches from the edge of the area but the drive finds the safe mitts of Lemey.

Aggie Beever-Jones goes close for Chelsea. Photograph: Piroschka Van De Wouw/ReutersShare

Updated at 13.20 EDT

27 min: Beever-Jones makes a neat run into the area to pick up a dinked ball but her reverse pass into the middle canâ€t find a blue shirt.

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26 min: Chelsea recycle the ball at the back as Twente hold a decent defensive shape.

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24 min: Roord tries to split Chelsea with a ball to Oude Elberink but the danger is comfortably cut out.

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22 min: Thompson and Carpenter remain dominant down the right before Buurman is dispossessed and Twente break. Roord continues to search for the ball between the lines.

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19 min: Somehow, we still donâ€t have a goal. Thompson jinks away on the right again for Chelsea, turning Tuin inside out, but her cross is uncoverted. Chelsea are just missing a clinical edge at the moment.

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17 min: Jean-François eases her way into the Twente area and cuts back from the left … Hamano is waiting, surely there to open the scoring from close to the penalty spot, but she blasts over the bar.

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Updated at 13.05 EDT

15 min: Carpenter does some excellent hassling on the right to set up another drive down the wing and cross into the middle – the Chelsea full-back is at the centre of everything at the moment.

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13 min: Thompson plays in the overlapping Carpenter on the right, but her dinked in cross beats the run of Reiten in the middle.

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11 min: Chelsea play it short and little comes of it before Twente cut through Chelsea with a brilliant sequence of passes – Vliek is set through on goal and should really take it on herself … but she tries to square it and the danger is cut out by Carpenter. That was a real chance.

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Updated at 12.59 EDT

10 min: Another corner for Chelsea as Reiten causes more problems on the left …

Guro Reiten evades Leonie Vliek of FC Twente. Photograph: Chris Lee/Chelsea FC/Getty ImagesShare

Updated at 13.07 EDT

8 min: Jean-François drives in the corner and Beever-Jones attacks, her header clipping the outside of the post.

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7 min: Baltimore and Reiten combine nicely down the left again to secure a corner …

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6 min: Millie Bright intercepts at the back before Baltimore nutmegs on the left, though the attack breaks down.

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4 min: Baltimore feeds Reiten down the left channel but the cross into the box finds Lemey, the Twente keeper.

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3 min: Carpenter and Thompson play a neat one-two out on the right but the formerâ€s cross is cleared – already, Chelsea are threatening down that wing.

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2 min: Twente win a free-kick in their own half after Nüsken fouls, but Chelsea are quick to win the ball back.

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1 min:Alyssa Thompson thunders down the right but her cross is out of bounds.

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Updated at 12.47 EDT

Peeeeeeep!

Chelsea get things going in blue, moving from right to left.

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Right then, after some technical difficulties with Disney, Iâ€ve got my stream sorted. The players are out and weâ€re about to get going.

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The Womenâ€s Champions League has a new format this season, shifting to an 18-team league phase, similar to the model adopted by the menâ€s version. After Twente, Chelsea are down to face Paris FC, St. Pölten, Barcelona (yikes), Roma and Wolfsburg.

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Jill Roord, once of Manchester City, is in the Twente XI, having re-joined her first club in the summer. The move was about rediscovering some joy:

It had nothing to do with [Manchester] City. My time with City was really good. I have been away for eight years playing abroad and it becomes tough being alone for that many years. In the past few years I lost my fun and my happiness in football a little bit because of being away, travelling a lot and not being able to be with family and friends. With busy summers every year I never really got a break. I needed to move back home, enjoy life and enjoy football again.

Hereâ€s the full interview with Tom Garry in June.

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Chelsea look very different to the side that drew against Manchester United on Friday: Ellie Carpenter, Millie Bright, Sandy Baltimore and Aggie Beever-Jones are the only starters from that fixture still in the XI. Catarina Macario is out with an achilles injury, though Bompastor has said sheâ€ll be fine for the weekend fixture against Tottenham.

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The teams

Twente: Lemey, Vliek, Carleer, Knol, Tuin, Groenewegen, Roord, Van Ginkel, Elberink, Ravensbergen, Proost

Subs: Bussman, Van der Vegt, Hulst, Diekman, Andradottir, Te Brake, Verdaasdonk, Ivens

Chelsea: Peng, Carpenter, Bright, Buurman, Baltimore, Hamano, Jean-François, Nüsken, Thompson, Beever-Jones, Reiten

Subs: Björn, Hampton, Cuthbert, Kaptein, Kaneryd, Kerr, Potter, Sarwie, Walsh

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Preamble

Is this the season? WSL champions six years in a row, a domestic treble to celebrate, unbeaten in the league for yonks … but that Champions League remains missing. Barcelona have had Chelseaâ€s number in three consecutive semi-finals (as well as the 2021 final), but a fresh start gets that dream going again.

Sonia Bompastor and her players†opening assignment in this rejigged comp is in the Netherlands, with Twente the hosts. They faced each other last season, when Chelsea won 3-1 at De Grolsch Veste, and a 6-1 win victory at home added to the one-sided nature. Twente have those memories to contend with as Chelsea begin plotting a path to Oslo, the scene of this yearâ€s final. Weâ€ll play at 5.45pm BST.

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