Leicester 0-8 Chelsea: Leaders pile misery on struggling Foxes with big win

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Chelsea made airy enactment of bottommost broadside Leicester to support their awesome Women's Super League rubric defence astatine the King Power Stadium.

The Blues were 5 goals up astatine the interruption acknowledgment to Guro Reiten, Fran Kirby, Jessie Fleming, Niamh Charles and Sam Kerr.

Fleming past grabbed her 2nd and substitute Beth England headed location aft the break.

Kirby added an eighth connected a ruthless day for the leaders.

It took conscionable 4 minutes for Chelsea to instrumentality the pb done Reiten, who slid the shot into the bottommost country aft clever link-up play with Kirby.

Reiten past got the archetypal of 4 assists 8 minutes later, slotting the shot into Fleming and leaving her with a elemental decorativeness from adjacent range.

Fully successful control, Chelsea began to exert themselves further, scoring 3 times successful the last six minutes of the opening half.

Kirby got successful connected the enactment with a classy outside-of-the-boot finish, earlier Charles headed location from a Reiten corner.

Not to beryllium near out, Kerr added a 5th arsenic Reiten's assistance stole the amusement again. Her searching shot near the Australian with an casual task, but her decorativeness was typically emphatic.

Four minutes aft the break, Fleming added to Leicester's misery. Jemma Purfield's anemic clearance from Charles' transverse fell to her, and she dispatched with confidence.

Moments aft their introduction, Alsu Abdullina and England linked up for the erstwhile to caput location a seventh 15 minutes from time.

There was inactive clip for Kirby to bundle location precocious on, with Abdullina progressive again.

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Line-ups

Leicester City Women

Formation 4-3-3

1Lambourne
13SimonSubstituted forBottat 45'minutes
15Howard
6Brougham
23PurfieldSubstituted forVanceat 78'minutes
10Whelan
3TierneyBooked astatine 36minsSubstituted forSmithat 83'minutes
8Pike
20GoodwinSubstituted forCainat 76'minutes
16Jones
32BakerSubstituted forFlintat 45'minutes

Substitutes

2Vance
4Bott
7Flint
12Jones
21Cain
28Levell
34Smith
40Robinson
44Scofield

Chelsea Women

Formation 3-4-3

30Berger
15PérissetSubstituted forCarterat 74'minutes
4Bright
16ErikssonSubstituted forNouwenat 74'minutes
19Rytting Kaneryd
14Kirby
5Ingle
21Charles
17FlemingSubstituted forCankovicat 63'minutes
20KerrSubstituted forEnglandat 63'minutes
11ReitenSubstituted forAbdullinaat 75'minutes

Substitutes

1Musovic
3Nouwen
7Carter
9England
10James
13Svitková
22Cuthbert
27Abdullina
28Cankovic

Live Text

Match ends, Leicester City Women 0, Chelsea Women 8.
Second Half ends, Leicester City Women 0, Chelsea Women 8.
Attempt saved. Bethany England (Chelsea Women) near footed changeable from extracurricular the container is saved successful the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alsu Abdullina.
Attempt saved. Aniek Nouwen (Chelsea Women) header from the centre of the container is saved successful the apical close corner. Assisted by Johanna Rytting Kaneryd.
Corner, Chelsea Women. Conceded by Hannah Cain.
Substitution, Leicester City Women. Mackenzie Smith replaces Sam Tierney.
Goal! Leicester City Women 0, Chelsea Women 8. Fran Kirby (Chelsea Women) close footed changeable from precise adjacent scope to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Leicester City Women. Demi Vance replaces Jemma Purfield.
Substitution, Leicester City Women. Hannah Cain replaces Missy Goodwin.
Goal! Leicester City Women 0, Chelsea Women 7. Bethany England (Chelsea Women) header from the centre of the container to the bottommost near corner. Assisted by Alsu Abdullina with a cross.
Substitution, Chelsea Women. Alsu Abdullina replaces Guro Reiten.
Substitution, Chelsea Women. Jess Carter replaces Ève Périsset.
Substitution, Chelsea Women. Aniek Nouwen replaces Magdalena Eriksson.
Attempt missed. Jelena Cankovic (Chelsea Women) near footed changeable from extracurricular the container is precocious and wide to the left. Assisted by Magdalena Eriksson.
Attempt blocked. Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (Chelsea Women) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Fran Kirby.
Corner, Leicester City Women. Conceded by Niamh Charles.
Attempt missed. Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (Chelsea Women) near footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Bethany England.
Substitution, Chelsea Women. Bethany England replaces Sam Kerr.
Substitution, Chelsea Women. Jelena Cankovic replaces Jessie Fleming.
Attempt missed. Molly Pike (Leicester City Women) close footed changeable from a hard space connected the near is excessively precocious pursuing a corner.