Keira Walsh’s late goal means Manchester City keep up the pressure on Chelsea while Manchester United bounced backManchester City are on an incredible run at the moment and the 1-0 victory over Everton means they have now won nine consecutive league games. They dominated throughout the game but Everton’s execution of manager Willie Kirk’s gameplan was almost perfect. They put in an admirable performance, even without Jill Scott who was ineligible to face her parent club, and frustrated City until the only goal arrived with nine minutes remaining. @keira_walsh was the matchwinner as @ManCityWomen keep up the pace with leaders @ChelseaFCW... #BarclaysFAWSL highlights ⤵️Flip it and reverse it! This time it's @samkerr1 cross that sets up @Bethany_Eng15!#BarclaysFAWSL pic.twitter.com/3rMkNdfUOTCaptain @katiezel was...
The champions Chelsea look in ominous form, Everton need to look at Manchester United for how to progress, and a first win gives Bristol City hopeAnother 4-0 win for Chelsea, their second in a week, with Tottenham the victims this time. Rehanne Skinner had transformed Spurs’ outlook on the season since she joined as manager in November, and they had won three in a row before they headed to Chelsea but after a promising start it all fell apart. Ria Percival and Kit Graham both forced saves from Ann-Katrin Berger in the opening minutes before the Germany international Melanie Leupolz scored against the run of play from more than 25 yards to crush Tottenham’s confidence. Another goal followed two minutes...
In women’s football, where you’re not used to big crowds, mindset can be the difference between winning and losingFrom when I was young the FA Cup final has always been the key date in the diary for women’s football. When I won it for the first time in 2005, in front of 8,500 people at Upton Park, it was long established as the marquee day for the women’s game, and it’s just kept growing since then. When Manchester City play West Ham at teatime on Saturday they are expecting a crowd in excess of 50,000.It’s a very special occasion, and playing in it has always been a huge privilege, but dealing with that kind of crowd at Wembley is a...
Arsenal are back on top of the table but victory over West Ham papered over defensive issues while Chelsea are back in formArsenal shot back to the top of the league with a 4-2 win over West Ham, but this was a far from perfect performance. The teams went into half-time at 2-2, and the leaders were then given what their usually mild-mannered manager, Joe Montemurro, described as their biggest telling-off of the season. He spent much of the last two weeks training against long balls and set pieces, only to watch his side twice fail to deal with long kicks from the West Ham goalkeeper, Becky Spencer, which released the Swiss forward Alisha Lehmann to set up Scotland’s Jane...