When Emma Hayes lost this trophy for the third consecutive time last March, only months after announcing her departure from western London, few would have believed that Chelsea would take less than 12 months to be in this position, dominating the English game as they are.
But that is the work that Sonia Bompastor has done since he reached these coasts. 28 games, 28 undefeated. 26 victories, 2 raffles and not a loss to add to your CV.
Of course, Bompastor has been helped by the generous strings of the club's bags, adding to the tastes of Naomi Girma and twice winner of the Champions League and euros Keira Walsh to their ranks.
But she has also added self -confidence and determination. They do not fall without a fight, what they demonstrated again here today, even without Girma and Walsh in their ranks.
“From the beginning of the season we said we are really ambitious,” said Bompastor. 'When we have the opportunity to win the first title that is always really positive, so I am very happy for that reason, but I am also very proud of my players.
'The performance was not excellent, but we found a way to win the game. The city is a really good team, it was a difficult game, so we expected that. But we created some opportunities, some opportunities and we could score two goals, which was enough to win the game. ''
Chelsea won the Women's League Cup on Saturday by beating Man City 2-1 in Pride Park
Sonia Bompastor won her first trophy since she replaced Emma Hayes as Chelsea manager
Chelsea has now won the Women's League Cup three times in five years
Chelsea Millie Bright's captain summed up the impact that Bomapastor has had after the game.
“Our mentality is ruthless,” Bright said. “We will defend ourselves for more than 90 minutes, we will fight for each other and we have another team to give.”
'We have lost the last three finals and that has chased the players who have been here for a long time. It is good to finally take that step forward and break the curse.
For City, they made the boldest bet by saying their chief coach Gareth Taylor five days before this final, with former manager Nick Cushing, taking charge until the end of the season.
If this will be counterproductive or not, it will be counted in 11 days, when the last four consecutive meetings conclude with their quarterfinals of the Champions League in Stamford Bridge.
The game was not as simple as a boompastor would have liked.
After Chelsea took an early advantage through Mayra Ramírez, who took advantage of the defense of the casual city, the losing team fought in the game, dominating possession and ending half with 22 touches in the opposition box, with the seven of Chelsea.
Bunny Shaw was characteristically the main threat of the city in the attack, but Chelsea, aware of the powers of the Jamaicans, both in advance and with her feet, hastened to mark her out of the game.
Mayra Ramírez scored the opening goal of the game for Chelsea in just the eighth minute
Aoba Fujino matched for Man City when he found the 19 minutes in the second half
But Chelsea won Saturday's game thanks to a goal in Yui Hasegawa's own goal (left)
Chelsea was fighting in the second half, but City obtained the level with a wonderful attack by Japan Aoba Fujino moving to Hannah Hampton.
Questions will be asked if Hampton should have done it better, but City obtained what they deserved after their sustained domain period in the first half.
Shaw should have given City the advantage a few minutes later when he found one by one with Hampton, but could not direct his shot beyond England international. Medema had a chance a few minutes later with a domestic shot that was also eliminated by the goalkeeper of Los Leonos.
Fujino's compatriot, Yui Hasegawa, vanished all the hard work of the city less than ten minutes later, with an unfortunate objective of restoring Chelsea leadership.
The objective had emerged as a result of a work won with so much effort in the accumulation of Lucy Bronze, who managed to hit the ball to replace Aggie Beever-Jones, who put Mayra Ramírez.
The goal scorer square the ball in the box, trying to find the return pass to Beever-Jones, just for Hasegawa authorization to accelerate on his goalkeeper and on his network.
It was an unfortunate way to lose leadership, and an especially unfortunate way to lose the final.
But there has been a feeling of inevitability after this Chelsea team since Bompastor took the reins, and the French coach will feel relieved that the first cup available either.