It didn’t take long for Chelsea Women to start dominating Leicester City at their home turf. This is after all a team that recorded only nine points in 20 Women’s Super League matches before today, and the way in which we took over the pitch showed why.
They did try to put up some resistance against our efforts but to no avail. 13 minutes into the match Sam Kerr was free to jump and score the goal that made her our best ever WSL goalscorer out of a Niamh Charles cross.
We worried the entire season
about the lack of goalscorers in this team besides Sam and Aggie Beever-Jones, the latter also often unavailable due to fitness issues throughout the year. Looks like Lauren James has been paying attention to our claims, as she scored two amazing goals to put the Blues three up before the end of the first half.
Given how weak Leicester City have been this season there was a good chance we’d get off the pitch with a clean sheet. But of course we didn’t as yet another massive defensive mistake gifted the opposition a goal still in the first half.
A better team would have made us sweat in the second half after finding that goal. Fortunately for us Leicester aren’t this team in this current iteration. We needed only to weather their initial storm and keep the pressure on them, although this second half was yet another instance of plenty of shot volume with no goals to show up for it.
Carefree!
- Lexi Potter gets to start in midfield today.
- Outrageous pair of goals from Lauren James there.
- Is it really that difficult getting a clean sheet in current times?
- Next up: Manchester City in the Women’s FA Cup semi-final.
- KTBFFH!
