Chelsea continued their strongest ever start to a Women’s Super League season as the defending champions made it six league wins out of six under Sonia Bompastor with a routine 3-0 victory at Liverpool.
Bompastor became the first manager to win their first four away games in the history of the WSL, Chelsea having also notched up victories at Crystal Palace, Arsenal and Everton, and maintained their 100% record in all competitions after eight games.
Their latest win was their second in Merseyside in successive Sundays, after the emphatic 5-0 victory away at Goodison Park, and if Liverpool fans were looking for any consolations, they will have at least been glad they made this game significantly more of a contest that their neighbours Everton managed to.
Nonetheless, Sunday’s meeting on a grey afternoon in St Helens contrasted with the engrossing 4-3 thriller in which Liverpool stunned Chelsea towards the end of last season and, briefly, had prompted their former manager Emma Hayes to concede a title that they went on to win regardless. Chelsea were never in such jeopardy this time.
Mayra Ramírez opened the scoring with the Colombian’s third goal of the season in all competitions, moments after Johanna Rytting Kaneryd had struck the bar, and Guro Reiten capitalised on some slack home defending to double the lead shortly before half-time. Aggie Beever-Jones added the third with a close-range finish in the 90th minute.
