Chelsea have now had four Women’s Champions League campaigns ended by WolfsburgChelsea were knocked out of the Women’s Champions League with a 4-0 capitulation against Wolfsburg in their final group game.Chelsea started the night top of Group A but eventually finished third behind Wolfsburg and Juventus.All three sides finished equal on points but head-to-head results mean last year’s beaten finalists go out.Two goals each from Svenja Huth and Tabea Wassmuth saw Wolfsburg win the group in stunning fashion.Only two last-eight spots were available at the start of the night, with Chelsea, Wolfsburg and Juventus all capable of securing a spot in the knockout stage.Chelsea needed just a point to finish top of the group but instead slumped to their heaviest defeat of the season.Wolfsburg v Chelsea as it happened’Chelsea unrecognisable’Blues manager Emma Hayes said she didn’t “recognise her team”, and blamed anxiety among her players over the Covid outbreak in the squad for the manner of the defeat.Ann-Katrin Berger and Drew Spence did not fly to Germany for the decisive final group game after testing positive for coronavirus.”They’re really, really difficult moments as a coach when you have so many players performing so poorly and they’re so disjointed and all over the place,” she said.However, she added that it was “important” for her to say congratulations to Wolfsburg as they “deserved to go through”.A loss by one goal would have been enough for Chelsea to squeeze through, but two-time competition winners Wolfsburg rattled the visitors with two quickfire goals from… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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