Like many of Chelsea’s wins in this early season, it wasn’t exactly smooth sailing, but we would get the job done against Spurs on this Sunday night at Kingsmeadow ... before running away with it late to make the scoreline look a lot nicer in our favor.
The first half saw an early goal from Maika Hamano (set up by Johanna Rytting Kaneryd) and an own goal on a Guro Reiten corner sandwich a generously awarded goal to Spurs on a ball that most likely never actually crossed the line — underlining the lack of technology, goal-line or otherwise in the WSL still.
But Chelsea were far from a smoothly operating machine, and though we’ve already shown the ability to stage strong rearguard action if needed, thankfully it didn’t come to that this time (especially given the manner of officiating that seemed to award or disallow goals at random).
Kaneryd took matters into her own hands once again and scored a wonderful volley halfway through the second half, before Sandy Baltimore added a fourth from the spot. Spurs got a late consolation, but would get no closer as Kaneryd would complete her Player of the Match performance with a brace.
Carefree.