Bompastor’s celebrations after winning her first trophy with Chelsea will be subdued.
The players have a curfew and will be in bed before 21:00 GMT, she says, because in four days they will do it all again.
City host Chelsea in the first leg of their Women’s Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday, before a WSL showdown at Etihad Stadium and then the European second leg at Stamford Bridge.
Bompastor believes winning the first match of the four can be a “big advantage”, but does not want her players to be complacent.
“Psychologically it’s really important to win the first one,” she said.
“Of course, it won’t be the main element going into the next game but in terms of confidence, it’s really positive. You always recover better when you win games.
“That’s a big advantage but it won’t be enough just to think that because we won today, it will be enough to win the game on Wednesday.
“It’s really important in this really rare situation – when you have to face the same team four times in 12 days – to take it game by game.”
The defeat for City was crushing. They came close, tested goalkeeper Hannah Hampton and fought back to grab an equaliser in the second half.
City were on top before Yui Hasegawa’s unfortunate own goal restored Chelsea’s lead having failed to capitalise on their dominance. Now interim boss Cushing must make sure they do not lose belief.
“That’s my job, to swing this into being motivation rather than the deflation of losing, or the fear that we are playing a better team,” he said.
“I’m a simple guy. This feeling that you get when you lose finals – if that is not enough motivation, then we are playing the wrong game.
“If watching that game back doesn’t give you the belief that you can go on and win… we did enough to win the game and we had many moments.
“I was proud of that. If you carry that disappointment, it won’t help on Wednesday. We can’t do anything about this one now.”
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