Hannah Hampton posts Instagram story watching Aston Villa’s clash with Chelsea from the stands
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Lionesses star Hannah Hampton posts an Instagram story and sees Aston Villa’s Super League clash with Chelsea from the stands… after boss Carla Ward said it was ‘in the team’s best interest to leave her out’ in the importance of the team’ because ‘something happened yesterday’
- Hannah Hampton saw Aston Villa’s WSL clash with Chelsea from the stands
- 21-year-old goalkeeper was available after missing four games due to injury
- But manager Carla Ward chose to leave her out for the trip to Kingsmeadow
- Ward claimed Hampton’s exclusion was ‘in the best interest of the team’
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England and Aston Villa goalkeeper Hannah Hampton showed up unannounced at her side’s game with Chelsea after she was left home by manager Carla Ward following an undisclosed problem on Saturday.
Vila’s number 1 had missed the last four games through injury, but was available for Sunday’s trip to Kingsmeadow.
Ward said she made the decision to leave the shot stopper at home for the sake of the rest of the team, only for Hampton to show up in the Chelsea stands.
Lionesses star Hannah Hampton arrived unannounced at an Aston Villa game after being left out of the match day roster
Villa boss Carla Ward explained she had chosen to leave Hampton, despite returning from injury, because ‘it was in the best interests of the team’
“Hannah was available,” Ward said after the game. “Something happened yesterday and we decided it was in the best interests of the team and the squad that she stay home, so I did exactly that.
“That’s all I really want to say about it. I made the decision to leave her home in the interest of the team and I left her at home. I’d probably rather talk about the 11 players who were here.”
However, Hampton watched the game from the Chelsea home end and posted a photo of the game on her Instagram story with the caption “let’s go team #utv.”
The 21-year-old did not travel with the team and went to London on his own.
Hampton traveled to the game alone and shared an Instagram story of her view of the action from the stands
Hampton was part of the England squad that won Euro 2022, but was the second-choice of number 1 Mary Earps. But the goalkeeper has been left out of the last two Lionesses rosters, with manager Sarina Wiegman saying she had “personal issues” to work through.
Ward had said in the lead up to the game that there was no guarantee that Hampton would return to the team due to the performance of reserve goalkeeper Anna Leat.
“Anna Leat has done exceptionally well. There’s been a lot of talk about ‘Is Hannah back? Is Hanna back?” and I think it’s very disrespectful to the quality of Anna Leat and how well she plays,” Ward said Friday.
“We now have two exceptional goalkeepers, two goalkeepers who push each other every day and two goalkeepers we can rely on. It is a good position to be in. They’ll have to fight it out.’
Villa was beaten 3-1 by Chelsea, leaving them eighth in the standings.