Sonia Bompastor has selected her first starting XI of the season to take on a side we faced five times in all competitions last season.

Hannah Hampton starts in goal, and protecting her will be a back five of Ellie Carpenter, Millie Bright, Nathalie Bjorn, Niamh Charles and Sandy Baltimore.

Keira Walsh, Erin Cuthbert and Wieke Kaptein make up the midfield three, and Maika Hamano and Aggie Beever-Jones have been selected to play up front.

On the bench for the first time in 625 days is Sam Kerr, after Bompastor confirmed the Australia international would be in the squad during her pre-match press conference.

Chelsea: Hampton; Carpenter, Bright (c), Bjorn, Charles, Baltimore; Walsh, Cuthbert, Kaptein; Hamano, Beever-Jones

Chelsea substitutes: Peng, Buurman, Nusken, Macario, Reiten, Rytting Kaneryd, Kerr, Jean-Francois, Potter

Manchester City: Yamashita, Rose, Greenwood (c), Shaw, Miedema, Hemp, Casparij, Lohmann, Hasegawa, Prior, Murphy

Manchester City substitutes: Keating, Layzell, Coombs, Wienroither, Ouahabi, Blindkilde Brown, Beney, Thomas, Lewis