Ellie Carpenter says her transfer to Chelsea Ladies has already helped her develop as a participant, and she or he believes she nonetheless has far more to present.
After becoming a member of Chelsea from Olympique Lyonnais Féminin final summer season, Carpenter described her first months in London as demanding however rewarding.
“It’s been thrilling, new, completely different, and difficult,” Carpenter mentioned. “All of these issues. However I’ve actually loved my first few months at Chelsea.”
The Australian defined that whereas the profitable mentality is just like what she skilled in Lyon, the weekly problem in England is completely different.
“I got here from an analogous elite surroundings the place the workforce all the time desires to win,” she mentioned. “However the greatest distinction is that it’s tougher to get these wins in England. For that purpose, it’s nice for me to be on this surroundings to push myself and actually step up.”
Carpenter has settled rapidly inside the squad and feels she remains to be constructing stronger connections on the pitch.
“It’s been a simple group to come back into,” she mentioned. “I’m easy-going, fairly bubbly, and I can have amusing, so I feel I slot in fairly effectively.
“I’m creating these relationships on the pitch now. I feel I’m solely going to get stronger for the remainder of the season and for seasons to come back.”
Carpenter mentioned she had seen the league’s development even earlier than making the transfer.
“I feel the WSL is the perfect competitors there may be for ladies’s soccer,” she mentioned. “No sport is simple, and no workforce is easy to play towards.
“The competitiveness is what drew me right here. You must be at your finest each match, in any other case you gained’t win.”
She additionally feels the transfer has introduced extra consideration to her performances after spending 5 seasons in France.
“I wished to indicate myself coming right here,” Carpenter mentioned. “I’m nonetheless fairly younger, however I used to be within the French league for 5 years, and never many individuals actually noticed that. So many individuals watch the WSL.
“I feel some folks had been shocked by how I’ve been performing. I’ve been doing that for 5 years, however not many individuals have seen it.”
On the pitch, Carpenter has been an everyday presence. Solely Millie Shiny has made extra begins for Chelsea this season, and Carpenter has scored twice, together with an extended vary strike towards Barcelona at Stamford Bridge.
“I don’t rating many targets, however that one was a spotlight,” she mentioned. “Among the finest targets I’ve scored in my profession.
“For me now, it’s about my finish product. I need to get on the scoresheet extra. Scoring on the Bridge, in that ambiance and towards prime opposition, was a tremendous feeling.”
Regardless of her sturdy begin, Carpenter insists she is way from completed.
“I really feel like I’ve a lot extra to be taught and provides,” she mentioned. “Right here at Chelsea, I can change into a fair higher model of myself as a result of I’ve already grown in a brief area of time.”
