Man Utd Girls 0 – 1 Chelsea Girls

Lucy Bronze’s late header helped clinch a sixth successive WSL title for Chelsea Girls, beating Man Utd Girls 1-0 at Leigh Sports activities Village.

The Blues have been gifted the chance to wrap up the league after Arsenal have been overwhelmed 5-2 by Aston Villa earlier on Wednesday, realizing some extent can be sufficient.

Marc Skinner’s aspect pushed Chelsea all the way in which in an lively, intense sport, however Bronze lastly made the breakthrough as she glanced dwelling Sandy Baltimore’s nook to seal the title for her workforce with two video games to play.

It’s simply the tenth WSL objective Phallon Tullis-Joyce and the Man Utd defence have conceded this season, and it may have been extra had it not been for his or her in-form goalkeeper.

Her finest second got here early within the second half, denying Erin Cuthbert, Aggie Beever-Jones and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd in fast succession.

The defeat is a blow for Man Utd’s hopes of Girls’s Champions League soccer subsequent season, who nonetheless stay two factors behind Arsenal with the Gunners and native rivals Manchester Metropolis nonetheless to play.

They arguably ought to have come away with no less than some extent too. Melvine Malard went shut late within the first half, latching onto a poor Chelsea again go however was denied by Naomi Girma and Hannah Hampton. Grace Clinton then despatched the follow-up over the bar.

Malard additionally drew a superb save from Hampton minutes after the break, however Man Utd have been unable to discover a well past the eventual WSL champions.

Chelsea have now gained the title for a sixth season in a row and it marks Sonia Bompastor’s first WSL win in her first season in cost. She stays heading in the right direction for a home treble, having already gained the League Cup earlier this yr.

The Blues will face Man Utd once more within the Girls’s FA Cup closing on Could 18 at Wembley as they appear to wrap up one other trophy towards the present holders.

Bompastor: Title win tonight feels a bit unreal

Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor to Sky Sports activities:

“It is an excellent achievement. It feels a bit unreal however we weren’t anticipating Arsenal to drop factors tonight, however being away, having the ability to bounce again after the sport on Sunday and having the ability to win towards an enormous workforce feels wonderful.

“I informed my workforce earlier than the sport that is an enormous alternative for us to take a step nearer to the title, even when I used to be not anticipating this to be actual. I am so pleased with my gamers, all of the employees, the workforce and membership.

“Tonight was a workforce efficiency, we stayed collectively. We bounced again which confirmed the nice character this workforce has.

“Beginning the season, I used to be not anticipating us to be in that place and capable of obtain that with two video games left. I knew we labored exhausting to struggle till the top.

“The most important problem is probably my English? However this league is absolutely aggressive so only for us to be in that place to be unbeaten and to realize what we simply did is one thing excellent.

“Not straightforward to return as a brand new supervisor, to a brand new nation, to regulate to a brand new league. I realized so much. However I’ve an excellent bunch of gamers and in addition an excellent employees. I am not the one one.”

Bronze: We need to go unbeaten now

Chelsea goalscorer Lucy Bronze to Sky Sports activities:

“We knew a draw was adequate as nicely. We wished to be unbeaten and preserve a clear sheet, nevertheless it’s good to attain and get the win.

“It is higher to rejoice being champions whenever you win a sport.

“The lucky factor for us this season is we have been unbeaten so there’s at all times been two issues to go for.

“Though we have gained tonight, we all know we have nonetheless bought two video games and we need to win these video games. We need to be unbeaten all season.

“The good factor is that we get to complete at dwelling at Stamford Bridge and all of the followers get to return down and rejoice profitable the trophy.

“It is exhausting to deal with so many competitions, we have at all times stated that. We did nicely to maintain ourselves in all of them till the top.

“It was good to return right here and rejoice a win, the title and transfer previous the frustration of the weekend.

“Subsequent season we are able to push on and enhance much more having not been at our greatest for the second half of the season.

“Sonia has executed nicely up to now, she needs much more from us and we may give it.”

Christensen: What a job Bompastor has executed

Sky Sports activities’ Izzy Christensen at Leigh Sports activities Village:

“That is what desires are manufactured from for Sonia Bompastor, her employees and her new gamers, and the prevailing gamers who’ve executed this earlier than.

“They do not care the place they do it or how they do it, so long as they do it.

“Man Utd have been the higher workforce this night, however that objective and that mentality from Bronze and the workforce getting over the road is credit score to the foundations that this workforce have constructed.

“It is such an enormous process and an enormous weight to hold [to win the WSL title again], however to have already got two trophies, that is what you keep in mind as a participant.

“What a job Bompastor has executed. Huge gamers out with harm all through the season, that depth, that help, these assets they usually’ve discovered their approach to win it once more.”

Hampton thanks Villa for Arsenal win

Chelsea goalkeeper Hannah Hampton to Sky Sports activities:

“It is unbelievable, I do not assume I’ve bought sufficient phrases. I’ve bought to say because of Villa for serving to us initially of the night.

“I am so excited and comfortable to be on this workforce. We have achieved the whole lot we wished to, possibly not within the Champions League, however we struggle till the top.

“That is what we have executed right here, we have gained the league with two video games to go so we’re all ecstatic. Finest imagine we’re not going to let up for these video games, we need to go unbeaten for the entire season.

“We knew we needed to reply in a great way. It is most likely not the way in which we wished to exit of the Champions League.

“We knew we may have put up a bit extra of a struggle, however there’s at all times subsequent yr to return.

“Proper now, we are able to get pleasure from this. We have got them once more in a couple of weeks’ time so it may be a tricky sport then to get the treble, however we’ll give it our all.”