WSL wrap: Manchester United win again as Diane Caldwell makes Reading debut
Manchester United made it back-to-back victories for their start to the new Women's Super League season as they beat West Ham 2-0 at the Chigwell Construction Stadium.
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Man City Women fall to second defeat of the Women's Super League season at Chelsea
Manchester City are still searching for their first victory of the Women's Super League season after a 2-0 defeat to defending champions Chelsea at Kingsmeadow.
Chelsea and Manchester City face off hoping to atone for poor WSL starts
The new Women’s Super League season has only just begun but in many ways the stakes could not be higher going into the second weekend. Chelsea take on Manchester City at a sold-out Kingsmeadow on Sunday afternoon, with two of the game’s heavyweights desperate to avoid back-to-back defeats and kickstart their campaign.
Stop thinking about rigid formations: football is now far too dynamic for that
Before every game the ritual for any fan, pundit, player or coach is to look at the lineups and formations. The debates of how a tactical battle between one team playing 4-4-2 and the other operating with 3-5-2, for example, will be discussed, but in the modern era things are a lot more complex and players do not function in a rigid system. Instead they have individual roles within a carefully designed blueprint.
Chelsea: Emma Hayes says she’s ‘gutted’ about Thomas Tuchel sacking
Emma Hayes has admitted she was “gutted” to see former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel depart the club.
‘I’m well again’: Emma Hayes on hidden trauma, ADHD and Chelsea upheaval
Emma Hayes is serene in a small bungalow in Cobham as, amid the uncertainty, one era sweeps into another at Chelsea’s heavily monitored training ground. Two weeks ago, a short walk from here, Thomas Tuchel was sacked by Chelsea’s owners the morning after his 100th game at the club. Hayes had just passed 10 years in charge of Chelsea Women, in a reign made remarkable by five Women’s Super League titles, four FA Cups and two League Cups.
After joyous summer English women’s football faces a battle for its soul
Rule number one of English football: when Leah Williamson tells you to do something, you do it. Particularly when she is screaming it at you over the din over 90,000 supporters at Wembley. “We want them to come to WSL games!” she yelled of the 17 million viewers watching the triumphant climax of the Euro 2022 final on the BBC.
Beth England ready to take centre stage after her role in Euro 2022 triumph
Beth England is still coming down from the high of winning the European Championship with England, but the striker already has her sights on another trophy-laden year with Chelsea.