Chelsea beat Manchester United in FA Cup final to seal domestic treble

Sandy Baltimore’s brace inspired Chelsea to a 3-0 FA Cup final triumph over Manchester United and sealed an unbeaten domestic treble for Sonia Bompastor’s serial winners in front of a sell-out crowd at Wembley.

Bompastor had already led the Blues to league cup glory and a sixth successive Women’s Super League title in her first season in charge at Chelsea, who became the first side to go through a 22-match WSL campaign without a loss.

Baltimore opened the scoring with a penalty on the stroke of half-time then provided the assist for Catarina Macario to make it 2-0 when she nodded home with six minutes remaining in the second half.

France international Baltimore denied holders United any chance of a comeback when she lashed home at the start of 10 minutes added time to cap off the triumph.

England boss Sarina Wiegman was watching on at Wembley, where Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, who four days ago announced he had purchased a minority stake in Chelsea’s women’s side, took in the win alongside wife and 23-time tennis grand slam singles winner Serena Williams.

The contest got off to a cagey start, United with the slight advantage after winning a few set-pieces and forcing Hannah Hampton – battling Mary Earps to be England’s first-choice keeper at July’s Euros – to palm away Grace Clinton’s corner.

Aggie Beever-Jones, who has enjoyed a splendid season with the WSL champions, was able to beat Millie Turner’s challenge, but it did take the sting out of her effort, which was comfortably saved by Phallon Tullis-Joyce.

Chelsea then dealt with a cross at the other end of the pitch, but it was only cleared as far as the unmarked Dominique Janssen, who missed a big chance to hand United the lead when she fired just over the