{"id":51263,"date":"2026-04-25T06:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/arsenal-vs-lyon-why-chloe-kelly-is-not-an-automatic-starter-before-champions-league-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:08:28","slug":"arsenal-vs-lyon-why-chloe-kelly-is-not-an-automatic-starter-before-champions-league-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/arsenal-vs-lyon-why-chloe-kelly-is-not-an-automatic-starter-before-champions-league-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Lyon: Why Chloe Kelly is not an automatic starter before Champions League semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For England, yes, but not for Arsenal.<\/p>\n

In 14 appearances off the bench for her club, she has managed just one goal and two assists.<\/p>\n

Team-mate Stina Blackstenius, an even more perennial substitute, dwarfs Kelly’s impact as a substitute. She’s come off the bench 24 times since Kelly’s debut and scored six times.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Blackstenius’ 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 – and she scored the winner in the European final last season.<\/p>\n

If boss Renee Slegers is looking at her bench for a match-winner, Blackstenius tops the list.<\/p>\n

Instead, the numbers suggest Kelly is far more effective for Arsenal when she starts, with 87.5% of her goals coming when she’s begun the game on the pitch.<\/p>\n

Only fellow Lionesses Alessia Russo and Beth Mead, plus Mariona Caldentey, have more goal involvements for Arsenal since Kelly joined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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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’s impact as a substitute. She’s come off the bench 24 times since Kelly’s debut and scored six times. Indeed, Blackstenius’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[2167,11898,2629,6121,2226,206,14787,974,14788],"class_list":["post-51263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-arsenal","tag-automatic","tag-champions","tag-chloe","tag-kelly","tag-league","tag-lyon","tag-semifinal","tag-starter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51265,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51263\/revisions\/51265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}