Sunday 21st May (2pm)
FA WSL 1
Manchester City 5-1 Yeovil Town (Att: 1,153)
Sunderland 0-7 Chelsea (Att: 775)
FA WSL 2
Aston Villa 5-4 Durham (Att: 403)
Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 Sheffield FC (Att: 1,279)
Oxford United 0-4 Doncaster Rovers Belles (Att: 479)
Chelsea Seven Up At Sunderland
Chelsea ran in five first-half goals on the way to a 7-0 thrashing of Sunderland, to go second in the Spring Series table.
Eni Aluko won an early penalty for the Blues but was injured in the process and Gemma Davison’s spot-kick was saved.
Erin Cuthbert played in to open the scoring after a strung run by Maren Mjelde and when
Ji So-yun clipped a ball over the top, Karen Carney curled home the second.
Ji then set up Mjelde for the third goal, Ramona Bachman fired in a low shot off the far post and Carney was involved again as Cuthbert got on the end of her pass before finishing via that same upright.
Lucy Staniforth was closest to a goal for Sunderland but Carly Telford made a good stop, afterwhich Fran Kirby struck twice to take Chelsea’s tally to seven.
Pictured top – Erin Cuthbert (chelseafc.com)
High Fives For Man City But Red Card For Lloyd
Manchester City sent Yeovil Town to a fifth straight defeat and moved into third place but had Carli Lloyd sent off late on.
City’s Georgia Stanway (The FA via Getty Images)
Man City were two up in a dozen minutes, with a Lucy Bronze cross turned into her own goal by Annie Heatherson and then Jill Scott beating the keeper to the ball to lift it into the net.
Yeovil got one back on 20 minutes, as Lucy Quinn collected a loose pass and curled a shot past Ellie Roebuck.
It was 3-1 on 38 minutes, Jane Ross applying the finish from Georgia Stanway’s driven cross and there might have been a fourth before the break but Megan Walsh did very well to deny Ross and Toni Duggan.
It was 4-1 just after the hour mark though, Ross converting from Steph Houghton’s header back across goal.
Jennifer Beattie saw her drive tipped over by Walsh but Kosovare Asllani got the fifth from close range.
Town’s Sarah Wiltshire was denied from the spot by Roebeuck but City’s win was marred by a Carli Lloyd’s red card for use of the elbow.
Belles Bag Runners-Up Spot
Doncaster sent basement side Oxford United to a 4-0 defeat to finish second to champions Everton by four points.
The Belles went ahead midway through the first half, Maz Gauntlett setting up Christie Murray to tap home from six yards out.
Nicky Davies kept them ahead when blocking out Ellie Noble and then at the other end, Courtney Sweetman-Kirk rounded the keeper only to be thwarted by a last ditch effort from Lauren Haynes.
But on half time, a long ball saw Kirsty Hanson nip in to loop a shot over the keeper and into the net.
Three minutes after the restart it was 3-0, with Sophie Barker hitting the top far corner on the angle.
The scoring was complete with 3 minutes to go, Sweetman-Kirk rattled the bar and Becky Rayner was on hand to bury the rebound.
Villa Fourth After Four-Goal Fightback
Aston Villa took fourth place in the table, just a goal short of Millwall, leapfrogging Durham whom they stunned by turning a 4-1 deficit into a 5-4 victory.
Tash Baptiste and Jade Richards (@AVLFCOfficial)
Villa actually scored first as Jade Richards steared in a Mollie Rouse strike but Zoe Ness hit a 19-minute hat-trick to see Durham go in 3-1 up at the interval.
Beth Hepple netted a penalty for the Wildcats’ fourth goal, the hosts replying with a Chloe Jones corner met by Richards’ bullet header.
Durham’s 4-2 lead collapsed in the final 9 minutes, as Richards set up Lucy Shepherd, Maddy Cusack half-volleyed in the equaliser and Alys Hinchcliffe hit the winner to spark wild scenes with her team-mates.
Over 1,200 At Amex To See Seagulls Finish Sixth
Brighton beat next to bottom Sheffield FC 3-1 at the Amex Stadium to end sixth in the table, goal-difference above London Bees.
Kate Natkiel volleyed in Albion’s opening goal from close range on 25 minutes, following Alessia Russo’s cross into the box.
It was 2-0 before the break, as the unfortunate Kenedy Owen headed past her own keeper from Sophie Perry’s corner.
Russo had a header cleared off the line and was denied by Jules Draycott, who then turned a Natkiel effort over the bar but with 3 minutes left, Russo found the top corner from 20 yards.
Emma Byrne made a fine save after Hannah Dale was given time to turn and shoot inside the box and in the last minute, Sheffield FC won a penalty and Faye Baker came on to face the spot kick but Carla Ward comfortably converted.
