Chelsea get back to winning ways in women’s super League with 3-1 win over Leicester.
Sonia Bompastor’s side have now opened an eight-point gap. After weathering a late push from Leicester in the first half, Chelsea added their second through a well worked move that was rounded off by Aggie Beever-Jones (51), but the visitors responded immediately when Yuka Momiki drifted into the box and lifted her effort over the head of Hannah Hampton.
They were two goals of immense quality in the space of five minutes after Mayra Ramirez’s smart backheel teed up the Chelsea team move before Momiki’s brilliance silenced the home crowd.
Leicester continued to ask questions of Chelsea but any nerves were settled when substitute Erin Cuthbert curled home a third (87) to seal all three points, moments after the midfielder rattled the crossbar from range with a strike from a similar distance.
Bompastor’s side have clear daylight at the top of the table and etching their name onto the trophy, for a fourth season in a row, seems inevitable.