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Could there be two London clubs in the Women’s Big Cup final four?

There must be something in the London water. Well, of course there is, it’s jobby; thanks to the shower in charge of the country, there’s tonnes of the stuff bobbing up and down the Thames. But we’re not talking about Spurs or Chelsea today, so our new favourite idiom can have the rest of the day off.

Well, we are talking about Chelsea, just not that male shower. Jobby’s for the boys, it seems. Today’s Football Daily is all about the possibility of having two London clubs in the last four of the Women’s Champions League.

This is where – and yes it is a weekday – Football Daily gets confused. For as long as we can remember, English clubs have been just below the top tier in the WCL, as Chelsea found out most bitterly when they were 4-0 down to Barcelona after half an hour of the 2021 final. Last season Arsenal were well beaten by Wolfsburg in the quarter-finals and Chelsea didn’t even get out of the groups.

Suddenly, everything has changed. Arsenal beat the holders and serial champions Lyon home and away in the group stage, while Chelsea did likewise against Paris Saint-Germain. More importantly, Chelsea won 1-0 in Lyon last week, making them favourites going into tonight’s second leg at Stamford Bridge, and Arsenal overcame a 1-0 deficit and a biblical downpour to put Bayern Munich out on a thrilling night at the Emirates.

The players are pretty much the same as in previous years, when English clubs tended to fall at the first really difficult hurdle. In some cases, the teams aren’t even as good. Arsenal beat Bayern Munich without arguably their three best players: Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema are out with ACL injuries, and Kim Little limped off after 11 minutes. Yet Arsenal were still much the better team, with Frida

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