Lucy Bronze: 'Man City v Chelsea, a sell-out crowd – the Conti Cup Final will be amazing'

In her exclusive column for GiveMeSport Women, England and Manchester City superstar Lucy Bronze discusses today’s Continental Cup Final against Chelsea.

There’s a joke going around that Manchester City always plays Chelsea in the semi-finals of competitions, and it’s kind of true! I don’t think we’ve ever played them in a final before.

I’m excited that’s changing this weekend with the Continental Cup Final. Two of the best teams in the country, in front of an amazing sell-out crowd – it’s going to be incredible.

The Manchester City supporters may well be outnumbered seeing as we’re playing in London, but if the crowd are against us, we can use that as motivation. If they’re with us, we can use that as motivation as well! It’s just about finding the positive side of things.

With Chelsea, the defenders like to defend and the attackers like to attack. That sounds silly, but it’s very different to the way we play at City.

We have a way of pressing from the front and playing out from the back. A lot of our attacking play starts from the defenders coming up the pitch with the ball.

In comparison, at Chelsea, the defenders love to defend and they love getting rid of the ball. The attackers feed off anything they get, and rely on a good relationship between the front three, or the Sam Kerr and Fran Kirby pairing.

So, I think they’ve got a very different dynamic to the way that we tend to play our football at City, which probably makes for more of an entertaining game. It will be two different styles of play going up against each other.

I think Chelsea’s key player will be their goalkeeper, Ann-Katrin Berger. She always has the game of her life against City, and she’s currently in really good form.

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