{"id":8920,"date":"2023-11-18T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/18\/englands-lauren-james-strikes-hat-trick-in-chelseas-5-1-wsl-win-over-liverpool\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T14:42:40","slug":"englands-lauren-james-strikes-hat-trick-in-chelseas-5-1-wsl-win-over-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/18\/englands-lauren-james-strikes-hat-trick-in-chelseas-5-1-wsl-win-over-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s Lauren James strikes hat-trick in Chelsea\u2019s 5-1 WSL win over Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England striker Lauren James scored a superb hat-trick and added an assist as Chelsea beat Liverpool 5-1 on Sunday to maintain their 100 per cent winning record and move six points clear atop the Women\u2019s Super League.<\/p>\n<p>James, who was not in the starting lineup for Wednesday\u2019s 2-2 Champions League draw with Real Madrid, made her presence known early at Stamford Bridge with a goal in the 11th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Her second was a rocket from the left side of the 18-yard box into the far corner, and she completed the hat-trick with a close-range finish in the 64th minute.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/fifa-womens-world-cup\/jennifer-hermoso-luib-rubiales-womens-world-cup-2023-spain-kiss-controversy-threats-sexual-assault-soccer-news\/article67507167.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hermoso says she received threats after being kissed by Rubiales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aggie Beever-Jones and Sjoeke Nusken also scored for Chelsea, which leads Arsenal by six points but has played one game more.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool is fifth on 11 points after seven games.<\/p>\n<p>The game at Stamford Bridge was Chelsea\u2019s first at home since the announcement Emma Hayes was taking over as manager of the United States women\u2019s team. She will leave four-times reigning WSL champions Chelsea at the end of this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game at Stamford Bridge was Chelsea\u2019s first at home since the announcement Emma Hayes was taking over as manager of the United States women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8921,"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-8920","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\/8920","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=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}