Chelsea Girls made it 5 wins from their opening 5 WSL video games for the primary time of their historical past after a formidable 5-0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park.
First-half targets from Aggie Beever-Jones (14), Erin Cuthbert (43) and Guro Reiten (45+1) put the guests in a commanding place.
Everton improved after the break and had their greatest probability when substitute Emma Bissell fired astray. Chelsea supervisor Sonia Bompastor appeared to her bench and introduced on Wieke Kaptein, and it was her emphatic end which ended any hope of a dramatic turnaround (82).
Not happy with a fourth, Chelsea added one other only a minute later when Ashley Lawrence met Eve Perisset’s low cross to compound Everton’s woes as their seek for a primary WSL win of the season goes on.
Wieke Kaptein prolonged Chelsea’s lead within the second half
The outcome means Chelsea retain their 100 per cent file and sit in second place with a sport in hand over leaders Manchester Metropolis, who’re only a level above them. In the meantime, Everton are rooted to the foot of the desk on two factors from six matches, slipping beneath West Ham on purpose distinction.
When requested if Everton are in a relegation battle this season, supervisor Brian Sorensen instructed Sky Sports activities: “I think it’s too early to say when we are so few games into the season. Let’s see where we are at Christmas and then we can see where we’re at.”
The defending WSL champions set the tone from kick-off with Beever-Jones drawing a save from Courtney Brosnan after simply 37 seconds.
The ahead then broke the impasse and the probabilities continued to circulate with Kadeisha Buchanan, Erin Cuthbert and Guro Reiten all narrowly being denied.
Cuthbert made sure of her second probability two minutes earlier than half-time, steering the ball into the underside nook after dispossessing Everton defender Veatriki Sarri.
The defending champions went into the interval with a three-goal lead after Reiten stretched to show in on the again submit in added time.
Erin Cuthbert (left) celebrates doubling Chelsea’s lead
The guests continued to probe after the restart for additional targets and ultimately obtained them late within the second interval after twice hitting the woodwork.
Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and Sandy Baltimore have been each denied by the purpose body earlier than the floodgates opened as soon as once more.
Substitute Kaptein cracked within the fourth with eight minutes left and Ashley Lawrence had a easy tap-in barely 60 seconds later to wrap up one other satisfying evening for Bompastor.
Bompastor: We’ve not gained something but
Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor:
“I think we maybe could have scored earlier in the game. We were efficient, even if I thought we could have been more efficient. We still won that game and all of the players are happy and I am happy as a manager.
“Typically we should be affected person and preserve the ball when the areas open within the opponent’s field. We’re working so much on that. The gamers make the correct selections and that’s most vital at soccer.
On being the primary Chelsea supervisor to win her 5 opening matches within the WSL: “I don’t care about myself, it’s more about the team, so I am so happy that we are able to win every game. At the moment we did not win any trophy and that is my main job. As the coach I don’t care, it is more about the club and the team.”
On Aggie Beever-Jones: “That’s the high level, you have to compete in the club and in the national team. She has a lot of quality, she is able to score and help the team to possess the ball.
“She simply must belief herself extra typically. She will be able to play ahead and likewise as a winger which is basically good. She can have all of the alternatives to start out video games and to make an affect for the staff so I’m actually completely happy for her tonight. I feel will probably be good for her confidence as nicely.”
Analysis: Frustration growing for Everton
Toni Duggan told Sky Sports:
“While you come up towards Chelsea, you must preserve your gamers of their core positions as a lot as you may.
“You could see Chelsea had joy because players were playing out of position and the frustration grows.
“I am not likely positive the place Everton go from right here and the way they will get again on observe however the Crystal Palace sport subsequent week is huge.
“When Chelsea have an injury, they have the personnel so the change is like-for-like whereas Everton can’t afford to do that. With their injuries, the player coming in hasn’t been a like-for-like change. There’s a big reshuffle and is why they have started games badly this season.”
Participant of the match – Aggie Beever-Jones
Chelsea have a good time their opening purpose at Goodison Park
Chelsea ahead Aggie Beever-Jones instructed Sky Sports activities:
“I was happy to get the goal but I didn’t want to celebrate too much as it was against a club that means something to me.
“I am delighted with the purpose and to get the three factors right this moment. The accidents they’ve had this yr has not helped them by any means.
“I wanted to do the basics well today and confidence is sometimes something I rely on and seeing five different goalscorers is always nice as well.”
Sorensen: We ran out of vitality
Everton boss Brian Sorensen instructed Sky Sports activities:
“I think it’s not the players that play our position, maybe it’s their fault, but especially in the first half we were not sticking to the agreements that we talked about, and then that, especially in the last two, led to goals.
“So that’s something we have to be better at. Getting to Chelsea, you have to get your game plan right 100 per cent, and that’s of course on me, but it’s also very, very tough and we have to make very last-minute changes basically after training yesterday.
“That is the training we now have to do. Now we have to be sharp in each second after we play a prime staff like Chelsea. So I wasn’t impressed with the primary half from us, it wasn’t adequate.
“Second half I think we stepped up, but then we just ran out of energy at the end. We need to get players ready to play.
“It is actually arduous to compete after we are so depleted as a squad and we now have very, very low numbers and must play gamers in positions they don’t seem to be used to. So we now have to get gamers match and prepared and we’re doing every thing we will to get that.”
