Chelsea staged a big first-half comeback to march into the semifinals of the Women’s Champions League with a 3-0 victory over Manchester City.

For all Sonia Bompastor’s early success as Chelsea manager, elimination from the Champions League, the very competition she was brought in to win, at the quarter-final stage would have been viewed as a failure.

Chelsea's women overturned a two-goal first leg deficit to beat Manchester City 3-0 and set up a Champions League semi-final meeting with holders Barcelona on Thursday.They beat City 2-1 in the League Cup final earlier this month to begin the quartet of meetings,