Chelsea 2-0 Man Utd: Ladies’s League Cup glory secured due to Lauren James and Aggie Beever-Jones targets

Lauren James and Aggie Beever-Jones scored to safe Chelsea a 2-0 win over a poor Man Utd as Sonia Bompastor’s facet retained the Ladies’s League Cup.

James’ first-half strike towards her former membership after a Dominique Janssen mistake put her facet in management, and substitute Beever-Jones netted on 75 minutes, permitting the Blues to cruise to victory of their seventh consecutive last within the competitors.

Man Utd’s lacklustre efficiency noticed them succumb to their sixteenth loss in 20 video games towards their opponents as their look forward to a second piece of main silverware goes on.

A frenetic begin to the sport produced early possibilities for each side, nevertheless it was Chelsea who took the lead after Janssen’s miscued back-pass despatched James one-on-one with the keeper, and the England winger made no mistake as she dispatched a near-post end previous a flailing Phallon Tullis-Joyce within the Man Utd objective.

Marc Skinner’s facet, regardless of being second-best, virtually responded getting ready to half-time when Ellen Wangerheim didn’t convert a tantalising Melvine Malard cross from point-blank vary of their finest likelihood of the opening interval.

Chelsea, who had taken management of the second half after an early flurry of Man Utd possibilities, suffered a blow when Nathalie Bjorn broke down in tears after struggling a extreme non-contact calf damage two minutes into her first substitute look since November.

However a decided Beever-Jones then latched onto a harmful Johanna Kaneyrd cross to toe-poke house and put the sport past the Crimson Devils’ attain.

A flurry of stoppage-time possibilities – the very best falling to Malard – proved too little, too late for Skinner’s facet as Chelsea held out to deservedly win their fourth Ladies’s League Cup title.

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