WSL roundup: Chelsea stay unbeaten as Agyemang helps Brighton to narrow win | OneFootball

Chelsea maintained their winning start to the Women’s Super League season as they scored three times in the space of seven first-half minutes to blow away a West Ham side who later had a player sent off.

The defending champions are the only WSL side to have maximum points from their opening four fixtures. They were emphatic 4-0 victors at the Chigwell Construction Stadium to leave the pointless Hammers rooted to the bottom of the table, on a day when there were also wins for Brighton, Tottenham and Manchester City.

Chelsea’s Aggie Beever-Jones scored for the fourth league game out of four this term, this time from a sumptuous free-kick, to open the scoring, before Johanna Rytting Kaneryd doubled their lead by tapping home Wieke Kaptein’s low cross. Erin Cuthbert added the third with a superb, swerving strike from just outside the penalty area.

Those three quickfire goals all came before West Ham were reduced to 10 players in the 23rd minute when Inès Belloumou cynically pulled Alyssa Thompson’s hair and was shown a straight red card.

Kaptein completed Chelsea’s victory with 20 minutes remaining when she turned home Catarina Macario’s cutback. It concluded a poor afternoon for Rehanne Skinner’s hosts, who are one of only two sides to lose all of their fixtures so far along with Liverpool, who were beaten by Manchester United but have a game in hand.

There was a third win of the season for Tottenham as they edged to a 2-1 away victory at Leicester City. Cathinka Tandberg and Olivia Holdt’s goals put Martin Ho’s side in control before Sam Tierney pulled one back for the managerless East Midlands side.

Michelle Agyemang, one of the stars of England’s Euros triumph in July, scored her first WSL goal of the season to give her loan club Brighton a 1-0 win over Everton. The 19-year-old’s bundled, close-range finish in the first half gave the Seagulls a second consecutive league win and their third straight win in all competitions.

Khadija Shaw scored twice from the penalty spot to help Manchester City enjoy a 4-1 victory at home to London City Lionesses. Vivianne Miedema headed Andrée Jeglertz’s team in front and Laura Blindkilde Brown drove a shot low through a crowd of players to make it 2-0.

Nikita Parris’s cool finish quickly halved the visitors’ deficit, but Shaw’s second-half pair of spot-kicks gave Manchester City three straight league wins for the first time since November.

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