Our new head coach has pitched summer signing Bronze, while Wieke Kaptein - who signed last summer and spent the season on loan at FC Twente - is also in the XI.

Hannah Hampton starts in goal with a backline of Bronze, captain Millie Bright, Nathalie Bjorn and Niamh Charles in front of her.

There are starts for returning Blues Erin Cuthbert and Guro Reiten alongside Kaptein, with Lauren James and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd also featuring from the off. Aggie Beever-Jones leads the line.

New recruit Sandy Baltimore is named on the bench, as is Alejandra Bernabe who could also feature for the first time in Chelsea colours following her loan spell at Real Sociedad last season.

Chelsea starting XI: Hampton, Bronze, Bright, Bjorn, Charles, Cuthbert, Kaptein, Reiten, James Kaneryd, Beever-Jones

Chelsea substitutes: Musovic, Cox, Ingle, Lawrence, Perisset, Baltimore, Hamano, Watson, Buchanan, Potter, Bernabe, Wardlaw

How to watch Gotham v Chelsea

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