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Powys County Times
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Comebacks and late winners – Chelsea's route to the Women's FA Cup final
Women's Super League champions Chelsea will be after more silverware when they face Manchester United in the Women's FA Cup final. Five-time winners Chelsea will be playing in their fourth FA Cup final in five seasons and, here, the PA news agency takes a look at their route to Sunday's showpiece. Chelsea 4 Charlton 0 (fourth round, Jan 12) Into the hat for the next round of the FA Cup! 🎩🏆 #CFCW — (C)helsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) January 12, 2025 With WSL teams entering the competition in the fourth round, Chelsea started their campaign with a routine 4-0 win over Charlton at Kingsmeadow. Mayra Ramirez and Guro Reiten struck in the first half to put the Blues in control against the Championship outfit before goals from Aggie Beever-Jones and Niamh Charles comfortably secured their spot in the next round. Chelsea 4 Everton 1 (fifth round, Feb 9) An early scare saw Chelsea fall behind in the 17th minute as Sara Holmgaard put the Toffees ahead. However, Sonia Bompastor's side responded as Catarina Macario slotted home from the penalty spot and Mayra Ramirez added a second just before the break. Maika Hamano extended their advantage in the 71st minute before another spot-kick – this time converted by Sandy Baltimore – wrapped up the win. Chelsea 1 Crystal Palace 0 (quarter-finals, Mar 9) Chelsea edged to a narrow victory over WSL strugglers Palace. The game fell in the middle of a congested run of fixtures for the Blues in March and was their third match of eight that month. Chelsea were left frustrated by a strong defensive performance from the Eagles, but Lauren James proved the difference by scoring the only goal of the game in the 64th minute. Chelsea 2 Liverpool 1 (semi-finals, Apr 12) Another closely-contested game followed as Chelsea needed a stoppage-time winner from Beever-Jones to book their spot in the final. Bompastor's side dominated the opening stages and, although Liverpool took the lead in the 21st minute on the break through Olivia Smith's low finish, Erin Cuthbert levelled on the stroke of half-time.
Leader Live
01-05-2025
- Sport
- Leader Live
The key matches in Chelsea's WSL title success
Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the key matches in the Blues' sixth consecutive league triumph. Playing their first competitive match since Bompastor succeeded the hugely successful Emma Hayes at boss, Chelsea opened the new WSL season by edging Villa at Kingsmeadow, with Johanna Rytting Kaneryd scoring a stunning winner late in the first half. Sandy Baltimore heads home her first @ChelseaFCW goal 🤩 What a ball from Lauren James 🙌#BarclaysWSL — Barclays Women's Super League (@BarclaysWSL) October 12, 2024 The Villa contest was followed by a ruthless 7-0 thrashing of Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park before Chelsea played one of their potential title rivals for the first time under Bompastor as they took on Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. In what would prove Jonas Eidevall's final match as Gunners boss, the Swede resigning three days later, Chelsea surged into a two-goal lead via early goals from Mayra Ramirez and Sandy Baltimore before Caitlin Foord replied just prior to the break. TOP OF THE LEAGUE!! 🔥#CFCW — Chelsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) November 16, 2024 A meeting of last season's top two at Stamford Bridge saw the hosts prevail after Ramirez and Guro Reiten finished in quick succession in the final quarter of the contest. It extended Chelsea's winning start to the campaign to seven victories from as many games – and they made it eight from eight by beating Manchester United 1-0 at Kingsmeadow the following weekend courtesy of a Reiten penalty. Having dropped points for the first time in the campaign in their 10th fixture, being held 1-1 at Leicester in their final WSL game of 2024, Chelsea were back to business as usual at the start of 2025, winning 5-0 at West Ham and then completing the double over Arsenal. The Gunners had been in fine form under Renee Slegers but came unstuck at Stamford Bridge, where Reiten netted another spot-kick in the 84th minute, with Katie McCabe sent off for the visitors moments later. Chelsea also benefitted from late goals in their next two league outings, a Sarah Mayling own goal giving them a 1-0 victory at Villa and Lauren James' stoppage-time strike sealing a 2-1 come-from-behind win over Everton. In a run of four meetings in a row across three competitions with City, who had put Nick Cushing in interim charge after sacking Gareth Taylor, Chelsea went into this third clash at the Etihad Stadium having won the League Cup final 2-1 at Pride Park the previous weekend, and then suffered their first defeat of the season, going down 2-0 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Joie Stadium. They fell behind to Kerolin's first-half goal, but turned it around as Aggie Beever-Jones equalised early in the second half before another stoppage-time goal, from Erin Cuthbert, gave them all three points, putting them eight clear at the top. YOUR @BARCLAYSWSL CHAMPIONS FOR 24/25: CHELSEA!! — Chelsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) April 30, 2025 Lucy Bronze headed a second-half winner as Chelsea clinched their sixth successive crown with a 1-0 win over Manchester United. The England full-back finally broke the deadlock in a pulsating contest at Leigh Sports Village when she glanced a corner past the impressive Phallon Tullis-Joyce 16 minutes from time. Arsenal's defeat by Aston Villa earlier on Wednesday had opened the door for the Blues to wrap up yet another league success, their eighth in 10 seasons and a first under Bompastor.
