{"id":13837,"date":"2026-04-25T06:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13837"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:54:35","slug":"arsenal-vs-lyon-why-chloe-kelly-is-not-an-automatic-starter-before-champions-league-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13837","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Lyon: Why Chloe Kelly is not an automatic starter before Champions League semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For England, yes, but not for Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 14 appearances off the bench for her club, she has managed just one goal and two assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team-mate Stina Blackstenius, an even more perennial substitute, dwarfs Kelly&#8217;s impact as a substitute. She&#8217;s come off the bench 24 times since Kelly&#8217;s debut and scored six times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Indeed, Blackstenius&#8217; 15 goals as a substitute in the WSL and Champions League for Arsenal since 2022-23 is almost double the return of any other player in that period &#8211; and she scored the winner in the European final last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If boss Renee Slegers is looking at her bench for a match-winner, Blackstenius tops the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, the numbers suggest Kelly is far more effective for Arsenal when she starts, with 87.5% of her goals coming when she&#8217;s begun the game on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only fellow Lionesses Alessia Russo and Beth Mead, plus Mariona Caldentey, have more goal involvements for Arsenal since Kelly joined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For England, yes, but not for Arsenal. In 14 appearances off the bench for her club, she has managed just one goal and two assists. Team-mate Stina Blackstenius, an even more perennial substitute, dwarfs Kelly&#8217;s impact as a substitute. She&#8217;s come off the bench 24 times since Kelly&#8217;s debut and scored six times. Indeed, Blackstenius&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}