Chelsea beat Manchester United 1-0 to knock them off the top of the Barclays Women’s Super League, Manchester City needed a late winner at Brighton.
Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United (Att: 2,277)
Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Manchester City (Att: 3,500)
Liverpool 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Leicester City 0-0 Everton
West Ham United 1-2 Aston Villa
Arsenal 4-0 Reading (Att: 3,964)
Chelsea lead Manchester United by two points and with a game in hand, after Sam Kerr’s first-half goal.
Mary Earps had twice saved from Kerr before the striker took down Lauren James’ long ball and dinked it over the keeper for the opener on 23 minutes.
Alessia Russo forced a save from Ann-Katrin Berger and Nikita Parris had her strong penalty appeal turned down.
Manchester City left it late at Brighton, where Khadija Shaw struck twice. Her first was cancelled out on the break, as Lee Geum-min set up Elisabeth Terland, only for Shaw to then grab an 89th-minute winner that moved her side level on points with Manchester United.
Kim Little converted an early penalty for Arsenal, which Caitlin Foord added to close to half time. Emma Mukandi could only turn a Frida Maanum cross into her own net, Leah Williamson got the fourth following up a Stina Blackstenius effort saved by Grace Moloney. Rachel Rowe hit the bar for Reading.
Aston Villa’s Rachel Daly struck from outside the area to give them an interval lead at West Ham. Into the last third of the game, Jordan Nobbs gave Villa a two-goal cushion from Kirsty Hanson’s cross. Viviane Asseyi headed home a Dagny Brynjarsdottir’s delivery, to give the Hammers hope in the last 11 minutes.
Liverpool recovered from a setback to defeat Tottenham and move five points ahead of their visitors.
Spurs took the lead through Rosella Ayane but the Reds turned it around as Emma Koivisto netted with a deflected effort from outside the box and later cut the ball back for Missy-Bo Kearns to score.
Leicester City picked up a precious point at home to Everton, to sit one more point from escaping last place. They needed Janina Leipzig to deny Aggie Beever-Jones in the dying minutes to keep the game goalless.
Fixture for Wednesday 15 March
Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City (Leyton Orient FC, 7pm)
