{"id":8628,"date":"2023-11-13T04:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/13\/womens-football-chelsea-stays-top-of-wsl-man-united-thrashes-west-ham\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T22:47:25","slug":"womens-football-chelsea-stays-top-of-wsl-man-united-thrashes-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/13\/womens-football-chelsea-stays-top-of-wsl-man-united-thrashes-west-ham\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Football: Chelsea stays top of WSL; Man United thrashes West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goals from Jessie Fleming, Sam Kerr and Agnes Beever-Jones gave Chelsea a 3-0 win away to Everton on Sunday that kept it top of the Women\u2019s Super League (WSL) table as Manchester City slumped to a surprise defeat at home to Brighton & Hove Albion.<\/p>\n

Canada international Fleming made the most of a poor clearance to volley home Chelsea\u2019s opener in the 14th minute, while Kerr and substitute Beever-Jones added two more goals in the second half as the reigning champion coasted to a comfortable win.<\/p>\n

Title rival Manchester City had a tougher time of it against Brighton, dominating possession but still ending up on the wrong end of a 1-0 scoreline as substitute Lee Geum-Min scored with one of only two efforts on target for the Seagulls.<\/p>\n

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In London, Norway international Celin Bizet scored a brilliant solo goal to give Tottenham Hotspur the lead over Liverpool but her international team mate Sophie Roman Haug levelled in the 66th minute to grab a 1-1 draw for the visitors. <\/p>\n

Manchester United registered five different goal-scorers in its 5-0 thrashing of West Ham United to go second in the table on 12 points after six games, four behind Chelsea and one ahead of Spurs and Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Arsenal takes on Leicester City in Sunday\u2019s late kickoff.<\/p>\n

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Manchester United beat West Ham United 5-0 to go second in the table on 12 points after six games, four behind Chelsea and one ahead of Spurs and Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}