{"id":25676,"date":"2025-10-03T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25676"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:33:51","slug":"manchester-united-v-chelsea-womens-super-league-live-womens-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25676","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United v Chelsea: Women\u2019s Super League \u2013 live | Women’s Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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United get the ball rolling for the second half.<\/strong> Meanwhile here\u2019s a WORLD EXCLUSIVE: It\u2019s raining in Manchester. Storm Amy giving it the big one.<\/p>\n

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Half-time advertising break.<\/strong> Get on it (pts I and II)<\/em><\/p>\n

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HALF TIME: Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea<\/h2>\n

A fair scoreline on balance. Both sides on course to stay unbeaten this season. United on track to doing that rare thing: stopping Chelsea from winning after their having taken the lead.<\/p>\n

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45 min:<\/strong> There will be one additional minute to a first half that\u2019s whizzed by.<\/p>\n

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44 min:<\/strong> Rytting Kaneryd drives at Sandberg down the right. She twists, turns and finally shoots. Straight at Tullis-Joyce. United have been more intricate in attack, Chelsea more direct. Both have come close in their own way to adding to their goal tally.<\/p>\n

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42 min:<\/strong> Rytting Kaneryd makes good down the right and crosses long. Baltimore prepares to head home, but Riviere heads clear just in time.<\/p>\n

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40 min:<\/strong> Cuthbert plays a long pass down the right in the hope of releasing Macario on goal. The flag goes up for offside, and Tullis-Joyce claims on the edge of her box anyway.<\/p>\n

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39 min:<\/strong> Sandberg, Park and Toone paint crisp triangles down the left flank. Eventually enough space opens up for Toone, who leans back and lifts a shot over the bar from the edge of the box. That would have been quite the goal.<\/p>\n

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38 min:<\/strong> United\u2019s turn for a bit of sterile possession. Both teams perhaps recovering from their blistering start.<\/p>\n

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36 min:<\/strong> Chelsea pass and probe, United sitting back for now. Pretty much the first moment of downtime since the first whistle.<\/p>\n

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34 min:<\/strong> Beever-Jones romps down the left before cutting back for Kaptein, who leans back and, unmarked from eight yards, should score. But she flips her shot straight at Tullis-Joyce, who makes a great point-blank stop. Admittedly a save she should never have been allowed to make. Kaptein tries to ram home the rebound, but only succeeds in hoicking miles over the bar. United get away with one, because as fine a save as it was, the miss was egregious.<\/p>\n

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33 min:<\/strong> The wind is really whipping around the Progress With Unity Stadium. The corner flags are almost horizontal!<\/p>\n

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31 min:<\/strong> Toone, quarterbacking from deep on the left, tries to find Zigiotti Olme with a floated pass into the box. But she overcooks it, while her team-mate gives up on the run, and that\u2019s easy pickings for Hampton.<\/p>\n

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30 min:<\/strong> Beever-Jones and Riviere contest a 50-50, and the former comes off worse. The Chelsea striker expects a free kick, holding her leg and rolling about a bit, but she\u2019s not getting one. She\u2019s not particularly happy about the absence of whistle, and she might have a point. Riviere looked a couple of nanoseconds late. But we play on.<\/p>\n

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28 min:<\/strong> Both teams are backing themselves in attack. Now it\u2019s Park\u2019s turn to drive aggressively at the Chelsea defence. She nearly busts her way through the thin blue line, but the gap closes just in time. There are more goals in this all right.<\/p>\n

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26 min:<\/strong> Chelsea have responded to that equaliser as though it was a personal affront. Which to champions it probably was. They win a corner United deals with. Then Carpenter storms down the right yet again, but overhits her cross. The visitors want their lead back.<\/p>\n

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24 min:<\/strong> A simple long ball down the inside-right pass nearly does for United. Macario spins Janssen and she\u2019s all alone in the box! But the whistle goes for a foul on Janssen. A light stroke of the face, and a generous free kick. Macario doesn\u2019t complain too much, to be fair, but United and Janssen have got away with one there.<\/p>\n

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22 min:<\/strong> That\u2019s a really good response to falling behind from Manchester United, when you take those aforementioned Chelsea\/Bompastor stats into consideration. And it can all be traced back to Janssen\u2019s Beckenbauer-circa-1966-esque elegant slalom from her own half to the edge of the Chelsea box. No assist, but she\u2019ll take United scoring from the next phase of attack. Wow.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea (Sandberg 20)<\/h2>\n

Chelsea fail to clear their lines. On the edge of the D, Le Tissier cushions a header down for Sandberg, coming in from the left. Sandberg meets the ball flush, sending a dipping screamer across Hampton and into the bottom right. What a pearler!<\/p>\n

<\/span>Manchester United’s Anna Sandberg fires off a shot \u2026<\/span> Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/Reuters<\/span>And the home side are back on level terms.<\/span> Photograph: Steve Taylor\/PPAUK\/Shutterstock<\/span>Sandberg celebrates her fine strike.<\/span> Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

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19 min:<\/strong> Janssen strides out from the back, down the inside left, drifting infield, all the way to the edge of the Chelsea box. She rolls across for Park, whose shot is blocked. That\u2019s such a shame, because that would have been one of the all-time assists. But never mind from United\u2019s point of view, because \u2026<\/p>\n

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17 min:<\/strong> This is Sonia Bompastor\u2019s 100th league game as a head coach. Of the 99 she\u2019s previously contested, either with Chelsea or previously at Lyon, 90 have been won, and just two lost. Another measure of the size of job United have on their hands now.<\/p>\n

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15 min:<\/strong> Riviere looks for Toone down the right, and the pass is perfectly weighted \u2026 but also perfectly anticipated by Cuthbert, who comes across to get in front of Toone and use her strength to hold off the United player, ushering the ball out for a goal kick.<\/p>\n

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13 min:<\/strong> Suddenly United are under siege. They can\u2019t get out of their final third. Baltimore swings in another dangerous cross from the left; Janssen is forced to turn behind for a corner. Baltimore crosses the pitch to take the set piece, but it\u2019s cleared confidently by Tullis-Joyce.<\/p>\n

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11 min:<\/strong> That\u2019s only the second goal United have conceded so far this season. It was a brilliant one, and it could be a costly one. Because here\u2019s Chelsea\u2019s record when opening the scoring in their last 26 WSL games: W24 D2 L0.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 Chelsea (Kaptein 9)<\/h2>\n

\u2026 and here\u2019s the opener. Carpenter crosses low from the right again. Macario, on the corner of the six-yard box, backheels for Kaptein, who calmly slots across Tullis-Joyce and into the bottom left. That\u2019s a gloriously smooth move!<\/p>\n

<\/span>Wieke Kaptein slots home.<\/span> Photograph: Molly Darlington\/Getty Images<\/span>Kaptein celebrates after opening the scoring against Manchester United.<\/span> Photograph: Steve Taylor\/PPAUK\/Shutterstock<\/span>Then is congratulated by Catarina Macario.<\/span> Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

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8 min:<\/strong> Zigiotti Olme has the opportunity to release Riviere into acres down the right, but overhits the pass. Goal kick. Both teams look absurdly open.<\/p>\n

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6 min:<\/strong> Carpenter is sent scampering down the right by Walsh, who whips a cross to the near stick. Beever-Jones leans back and hoicks over from close range. It was surely easier to score. Somewhere in the multiverse, it\u2019s already 2-2.<\/p>\n

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5 min:<\/strong> That\u2019s a promising start for United, though: two one-on-one opportunities already, albeit neither a particularly easy one. But all good considering United have never beaten Chelsea in the WSL.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a014.38 EDT<\/p>\n

4 min:<\/strong> Chelsea respond through Baltimore, who sashays down the left before curling a delicious ball in for Macario. For a second, it looks as though the goal is at her mercy, but she can\u2019t get a shot away because Le Tissier stubbornly stays in the road to block. Then United counter the counter, Toone driving down the middle and slipping Park into the box down the right. Park tries to float a chip over Hampton from a tight angle, but it clears the bar. Looks like there may be goals in this!<\/p>\n

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2 min:<\/strong> United are on the front foot immediately. Terland strides purposefully down the inside-left channel. She\u2019s got Rolfo in the middle, but is within her rights to take a pop herself. Her low drive, intended for the bottom left, is kicked away by Hampton.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Manchester United\u2019s Elisabeth Terland atttempts to go past Chelsea\u2019s Millie Bright.<\/span> Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

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The players also intermingle in the centre circle, linking arms to mark the start of Black History Month \u2026<\/strong> then Chelsea get the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

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The teams are out!<\/strong> United in red, Chelsea in blue. We\u2019ll be off soon, but before kick-off there\u2019s a moment of solemn silence in tribute to the victims of the terror attack on a Manchester synagogue. Perfectly observed.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The Chelsea and Manchester United players and fans pay their respects to the victims of the Manchester synagogue attack.<\/span> Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

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Chelsea\u2019s Sonia Bompastor talks to the Beeb.<\/strong> \u201cComing into every game we are trying to bring players who can bring specific things to the team and performance \u2026 tonight is a tough game \u2026 we expect the finishers to come in \u2026 I have good quality on the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Manchester United boss Marc Skinner speaks to the BBC.<\/strong> \u201cFantastic to welcome Hannah [Blundell] back [after giving birth] \u2026 it\u2019s been a long time but it\u2019s a very welcome addition to the team \u2026 [as for dropping Melvine Malard in favour of Anna Sandberg] because of their bench you have to have two strategies, a start and an end game \u2026 in this one we\u2019re looking in a certain way to exact that plan \u2026 it was harsh for [Malard] because she\u2019s in excellent form \u2026 in reality it\u2019s a bit of a gameplan that hopefully we can spring on Chelsea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Manchester United make one change to the starting XI from the one that began last Sunday\u2019s 2-0 win at Liverpool<\/strong> \u2026<\/strong> and it\u2019s one with the visit of the all-conquering champions very much in mind. Anna Sandberg comes in for leading scorer Melvine Malard, who drops to the bench.<\/p>\n

Chelsea rotate three players in\/out of the XI that started the 4-0 win at West Ham United last weekend.<\/strong> Ellie Carpenter and Sandy Baltimore return as right-back and left-back respectively, with Catarina Macario coming into the midfield. Veerle Buurman, Oriane Jean-Fran\u00e7ois and Alyssa Thompson drop to the bench.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a014.12 EDT<\/p>\n

The teams<\/h2>\n

Manchester United:<\/strong> Tullis-Joyce, Riviere, Le Tissier, Janssen, Rolfo, Sandberg, Miyazawa, Park, Toone, Zigiotti Olme, Terland.
Subs: Middleton-Patel, Rendell, Blundell, George, Awujo, Ildhusoy, Naalsund, Malard, Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chelsea:<\/strong> Hampton, Bjorn, Bright, Carpenter, Kaptein, Cuthbert, Walsh, Baltimore, Kaneryd, Macario, Beever-Jones.
Subs: Peng, Reiten, Thompson, Buurman, Kerr, Hamano, Jean-Francois, Nusken, Potter.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a013.59 EDT<\/p>\n

Preamble<\/h2>\n

Just four games in, and already this feels like it could be a potentially decisive fixture.<\/strong> Look!<\/p>\n

Manchester United can go top if they win tonight.<\/strong> It\u2019s a big ask, even with home advantage, not least because Chelsea haven\u2019t lost in the WSL since the tail end of the 2023-24 season \u2013 and they still went on to win the title \u2013 but also because Erin Cuthbert and Aggie Beever-Jones are currently in the sort of form that\u2019s seen them pinging the ball into this top corner and that one. Yep, it\u2019s a big ask.<\/p>\n

Yet having said all that, United will still have confidence in their ability to end the 500-day-plus unbeaten WSL run of the best team in the land.<\/strong> Partly because their defence is formidable \u2013 they\u2019ve only conceded one goal in their first four gamedays \u2013 and they\u2019ve got spectacular goals in them too: step forward Hinata Miyazawa, and, without breaking stride, launch a howitzer. With Melvine Malard joint top of the early goalscoring charts alongside the aforementioned Beever-Jones, there\u2019s enough in-form attacking talent on show for this to be a thriller, and if I\u2019ve tempted the Football Gods into serving up a 0-0, I can only apologise in advance. Kick-off in Leigh, Greater Manchester is at 7.30pm BST.<\/strong> It\u2019s on!<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a013.34 EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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