messi kids kit Taking on Emma Hayes’ Chelsea team is a tough task for anyone.

That task gets even more difficult when the opposition are already 4-0 down and they look to the dugoutto see things are about to get even worse, which was the case for Reading last weekend.

Fran Kirby had already scored a perfect hat-trick – and added another for good measure – before Hayes made a triple sub that saw her introduce Beth England, last season’s PFA Women’s Players’ Player of the Year, Ji So-yun, arguably the greatest foreign import in Women’s Super League history, and Jessie Fleming, a player with 77 senior caps for Canada at the age of 22.

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Ten minutes later, Pernille Harder, the most expensive player in the history of women’s football, and Magdalena Eriksson, Chelsea’s captain and leader, followed, with Ji rounding off the scoring late in the game as the Blues won 5-0.

A number of those brought on would normally Football jerseys for sale be starters, but after a Covid-19 outbreak at the club before Christmas, Hayes explained “some of them have only been training two or three days”.