Will Arsenal Be Team To End Chelsea's 'ridiculous' Unbeaten Run?

Women's Super League: Arsenal v Chelsea

Venue: Emirates Stadium, London Date: Saturday, 8 November Kick-off: 12:00 GMT

Coverage: Commentary connected BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, unrecorded matter commentary connected nan BBC Sport website & app

Chelsea person not mislaid a lucifer successful nan Women's Super League successful 555 days.

Their French head Sonia Bompastor has ne'er knowledgeable nan emotion of conclusion successful nan English apical flight.

Since losing 4-3 to Liverpool connected 1 May 2024, Chelsea person claimed 2 WSL titles, changed managers and gone 32 convention games unbeaten.

If they debar conclusion connected Saturday, nan Blues will adjacent nan longest unbeaten streak successful WSL history - group by Chelsea nether Emma Hayes betwixt 2019 and 2021.

But Arsenal, who are hopeless to support their title hopes alive, guidelines successful their way.

Could nan Gunners beryllium nan squad to yet extremity Chelsea's unbeaten run? BBC Sport looks astatine nan cardinal statistic and talking points surrounding nan fixture.

While Chelsea person stayed unbeaten astatine nan commencement of 2025-26 run and beryllium apical of nan WSL table, Arsenal person been little fortunate.

The Gunners' hopes of a title complaint suffered an early rustle pinch a conclusion by Manchester City and draws against Manchester United and Aston Villa.

Those results person near Arsenal 5 points down Chelsea and a conclusion connected Saturday would surely extremity their dreams of winning a first convention title since 2019.

While they person endured a shaky commencement to nan season, nan Gunners did fortify successful nan summertime and Slegers has a deeper squad to situation nan reigning champions.

Arsenal will besides return assurance from their triumphant Champions League tally past season, erstwhile they hit eight-time winners Lyon and favourites Barcelona to assistance nan 1 trophy that Chelsea person yet to win.

Former Gunners defender Jen Beattie says Arsenal person nan players to origin Chelsea problems.

"I do deliberation that they person much than capable value successful their squad to [win], " she told nan Women's Football Weekly podcast.

"We've seen that complete nan past benignant of 12 months of people - it's whether they get it tactically right."

Slegers will besides beryllium good alert that Bompastor's broadside person looked acold from invincible this season.

The Blues overcame a slow commencement to hit Aston Villa and they narrowly edged past Leicester, while they dropped points successful a astonishment tie against Dutch broadside Twente successful their Women's Champions League opener.

Describing Chelsea's unbeaten tally arsenic "ridiculous", erstwhile England striker Ellen White added: "It is going to beryllium a existent situation for Arsenal and I deliberation it comes astatine a bully clip for them.

"They person to put everything together now and they person to execute and amended and really kickstart their season."

But if nan Gunners neglect to get immoderate points connected Saturday, White says nan title, which they past won successful 2019, will beryllium "out of reach" again.

On their measurement to becoming nan first WSL broadside to decorativeness a 22-game play unbeaten, Chelsea did nan league-double complete Arsenal past term.

One extremity separated nan 2 teams connected some occasions.

During their past outing astatine nan Emirates, Chelsea netted doubly successful nan opening 16 minutes - a cushion that nan Gunners, who were playing nether Jonas Eidevall, could not overturn.

In January's reverse fixture astatine Stamford Bridge, Guro Reiten's precocious penalty saw disconnected to Renee Slegers' side.

Arsenal person won 3 of their past 10 meetings against Chelsea successful each competitions, losing six.

Their past triumph against nan Blues arrived successful nan 2024 League Cup final, erstwhile Stina Blackstenius scored a 116th-minute winner.

More than 50,000 tickets person been sold for Saturday's meeting, which Slegers says will beryllium "a beautiful occasion", arsenic good arsenic a "great opportunity" to get backmost into nan title race.

If Chelsea were to win, they would move to 22 points - 8 up of Arsenal, whereas if nan hosts were to triumph, they would trim nan shortage to nan Blues to conscionable 2 points.

And Arsenal boast an awesome location record, having mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 24 location matches successful nan convention - though that did travel against Chelsea past season.

"This is why nan players activity truthful hard, what they unrecorded for, to play these kinds of games wherever there's truthful overmuch astatine stake," says Slegers.

"It's going to beryllium astir execution. I deliberation location are 2 really bully teams going against each other. There will beryllium good margins connected nan pitch."