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85 min: Metropolis change, off goes Ouahabi, Fowler on, an attacker for a defender, because it’s desperation stakes. There can be a longish harm time after Lauren Heap’s hooter took that blow.
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84 min: Sonia Bompastor is asking her gamers to shut this one out. Her tactical plan goes properly up to now.
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83 min: Chelsea on a go-slow, Hannah Hampton taking her time on the ball earlier than they launch into the assault with Sam Kerr whizzing down the flank. Then Lauren James tries from lengthy vary. There’s a smile after it whips large.
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82 min: Fujino, after Shaw creates the possibility, fires large for Metropolis.
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80 min: Lauren James is booked for a hefty sort out. Chelsea adjustments: Thompson off, Rytting Kaneryd on.
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79 min: Chelsea placing the squeeze on Metropolis, who’ve discovered it very tough to create the possibilities they did in direction of the tip of the primary half.
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77 min: Metropolis’s double bid is fading quick, although there’s nonetheless a lot to have fun from their season. Chelsea are on target for their very own double, although should beat Brighton within the closing.
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75 min: Shaw turns and spins, and fires over. It’s not been her day up to now and the day is sort of finished.
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73 min: Sam Kerr holds the ball up, turns and is knocked flat by Metropolis’s Rose.
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72 min: Chelsea stay in full management and proceed to push for extra.
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71 min: Thompson, who has been quieter than within the first half, goes on certainly one of her runs, and smashes simply large. So many respectable attackers on this Chelsea group.
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69 min: Kerr has the ball within the web for the third time, heading in a Cuthbert ball. Offside, and this time the choice is in little question.
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67 min: Hemp fizzes a cross throughout. It’s Shaw territory however she doesn’t get shut.
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67 min: Two Metropolis adjustments: Iman Beney and Aoba Fujino exchange Grace Clinton and Kerstin Casparij.
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66 min: Hemp continues to buzz with power and forces a nook, although it’s wasted, with Grace Clinton not studying it.
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65 min: Gordon in Aberdeen is again: “Everybody saying Chelsea had been “robbed” of a second purpose. It doesn’t matter if the ball was in or out – what’s necessary is that the well-placed Assistant Ref instantly raised her flag – and all of the Metropolis defenders, significantly Rose, who was about to clear the ball – stopped, with solely Kerr taking part in on. So, not a lot theft, truly.”
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63 min: Modifications are afoot on the Metropolis bench. One thing wants to change; Chelsea have been a lot the higher group.
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62 min: Chelsea need extra. Metropolis have a mountain to climb however have loads of firepower. Shaw turns and shoots over when she would have been higher suggested to let the ball run to Hemp.
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60 min: You possibly can’t hand probabilities like that to Sam Kerr, although maybe a component of karma for that incorrectly disallowed purpose.
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Aim! Chelsea 2-0 Manchester Metropolis (Kerr, 59)
Oh, calamity, a fumble of James’ cross from Keating, the Metropolis keeper, and Sam Kerr does a Sam Kerr factor.
Chelsea’s Sam Kerr scores their second purpose. {Photograph}: John Sibley/Motion Photos/ReutersShare
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58 min: Hemp stays a central character, and whips the ball throughout. Might Kerolin have made a greater effort to go that. Shaw had dropped deep to arrange the transfer.
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56 min: Within the subsequent breath, Kerr is once more concerned. Chelsea beginning the second half like they did the primary.
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55 min: From the following nook, Hemp bravely blocks off Kerr.
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54 min: Hemp again on, with no quantity on her shirt. As she arrives, she’s requested to go a ball and there’s a scramble, Sam Kerr totally concerned, the ball bouncing hither and thither.
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52 min: Hemp will come again on, as soon as she’s modified her shirt.
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50 min: This can be a prolonged delay…and therapy continues, appears like there’s been some blood spilled. Lauren Hemp has cotton buds up her nostrils.
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48 min: Hemp took an almighty clump in a collision with Ouahabi, her teammate. It appears like a head harm. Some concern for Sarina Wiegman.
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46 min: Again we come into the motion and the excellent news for Metropolis is the return of Bunny Shaw, who’s straight again into the throng.
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Half-time: Chelsea 1-0 Manchester Metropolis
Chelsea could be two up if the officers had not gone out for Sam Kerr’s disallowed purpose. They’ve created the higher probabilities, even when their purpose had a contact of luck to it. Huge half to come back if Metropolis are to rescue their double bid. Will Khadija Shaw be again to play her half?
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45+1 min: Appears like Shaw can be coming again on although continues to be rubbing her neck as she arrives, and Sam Kerr whips a shot large from an acute angle.
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45 min: There’s head shaking from Shaw, and her day might be finished. She leaves the sector rubbing her neck. Three minutes added on.
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44 min: Bunny Shaw is down, and appears dazed after a collision with Buurman.
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43 min: Oof, one thing of a slice from Hannah Hampton however she will get away with it. On the different finish, a James shot is deflected behind.
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41 min: James fires over and isn’t completely happy that the ball she hit didn’t have sufficient buy on it.
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40 min: Chelsea maintain on the ball somewhat than undertake their earlier wildcat attacking technique. Then, persistence virtually pays off as Sam Kerr will get house, although that’s closed down.
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38 min: Good save from Hampton following a deflected shot by Blindkilde Brown. Possibilities coming at each ends.
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36 min: Hampton’s lengthy ball from goalkeeper causes actual issues, and as Kerr lurks, it takes a Greenwood intervention to cease what seemed a sure purpose. Chelsea look harmful on each assault however then once more so do Metropolis on their extra uncommon excursions.
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34 min: However, after a transfer began by Grace Clinton, the ball is headed over by Shaw. Metropolis are usually not finished but, by any measure.
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33 min: Thompson is within the temper, her cross geared toward Kerr, however simply headed over. Chelsea are again within the ascendancy.
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32 min: What a run from Alyssa Thompson, dancing ft, like Ricky Villa, and it takes a well-timed sort out from Rose to cease her. Rose harm herself within the act however performs on.
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31 min: Kerr darts into the world, earlier than the ball is cleared somewhat hurriedly.
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30 min: Carpenter will get to the byline once more however the ball is overhit this time. That disallowed second purpose feels some time in the past now.
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