Page 4 - Women's Soccer Scene Issue No.27 2022-23

Manchester Utd are continuing to stretch the pace at the top after
recording a second successive 4-0 win, this time away to Brighton &
Hove Albion. Leah Galton gave United the lead after twelve minutes and
she netted a second midway through the second half, before Rachel
Williams and Lucia Garcia rounded off the victory with further goals late
on.
Chelsea climbed back up into second place by running out 3-0
winners at Aston Villa on Sunday night. The home side have acquitted
themselves well against the top four throughout the season but this time, Chelsea never really
looked back after taking the lead through Jelena Cankovic midway through the first half.
Guro Reiten doubled their advantage just before half time and Sam Kerr completed the
scoring after the break.
Arsenal came from behind to win 2-1 against Manchester City; bringing an end to
the Cityzens’ fourteen match unbeaten run and moving the teams level on points. Khadija
Shaw got City off to the perfect start by giving them a fifth minute lead but after the break,
Arsenal hit back strongly and goals from Frida Maanum and Katie McCabe completed a good
week for the Gunners and returned them to the top three.
Everton meanwhile narrowed the gap on fifth placed Aston Villa to five points, thanks
to a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur. Nicoline Sorensen put Everton ahead with only
four minutes on the clock, with Eveliina Summanen equalising midway through the first half.
The game seemed to beading towards a draw until Aggie Beever-Jones scored the winner for
the Toffees, deep into injury time.
The points were shared at West Ham
Brighton & Hove Albion 0
Utd, where the home side battled out a goalless Manchester Utd 4 (Galton 12,66, Williams 86,
draw with Liverpool. The draw keeps both Garcia 87)
teams in mId-table, with the Hammers still one -
point ahead. Arsenal 2 (Maanum 62, McCabe 74)
Manchester City 1 (Shaw 5)
Leicester City are off the bottom of the -
table for the first time since the opening weeks of Everton 2 (Sorensen 4, Beever-Jones 90)
the season after they defeated Reading FC Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Summanen 22)
Women 2-1. Sam Tierney gave the Foxes a first -
Leicester City 2 (Tierney 20, Jones 90)
half lead, which was cancelled out on the stroke of Reading FC Women 1 (Wellings 45)
half time by Charlie Wellimgs. Once again, there -
was a late drama as Carrie Jones netted an injury West Ham Utd 0
time goal to give Leicester a huge boost in their Liverpool 0
-
fight against relegation, and move them up the Aston Villa 0
table at the expense of Brighton & Hove Albion. Chelsea 3 (Cankovic 22, Reiten 43, Kerr 56)
BARCLAYS WSL P W D L F A Pts GD
MANCHESTER UTD 17 13 2 2 46 9 41 37
CHELSEA 16 13 1 2 42 14 40 28 LEADING SCORERS
ARSENAL 16 12 2 2 40 10 38 Kha Manchester City 16
30dija SHAW
MANCHESTER CITY 17 12 2 3 35 16 38 Rachel DALY Aston Villa 13
19
ASTON VILLA 17 9 2 6 32 28 29 Leah GALTON Manchester Utd 8
4
EVERTON 16 7 3 6 19 16 24 Sam KERR Chelsea 8
3
WEST HAM UTD 17 5 2 10 17 30 17 -13 Manchester Utd 8
Alessia RUSSO
LIVERPOOL 16 4 4 8 16 27 16 -11 Tottenham Hotspur 7*
Beth ENGLAND
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 17 4 0 13 20 36 12 -16
READING FC WOMEN 17 3 2 12 19 38 11 -19
LEICESTER CITY 17 3 1 13 9 39 10 -30
BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION 15 2 3 10 18 50 9 -32
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