{"id":28146,"date":"2025-05-01T05:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=28146"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:13:15","slug":"chelsea-beat-man-united-to-win-wsl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=28146","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea beat Man United to win WSL title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746076298423.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746076298423.jpg 720w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746076298423-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LEIGH, ENGLAND &#8211; APRIL 30: Chelsea Women players celebrate after winning the Barclays Women&#8217;s Super League during a Barclays Women&#8217;s Super League match between Manchester United and Chelsea FC at Leigh Sports Village on April 30, 2025 in Leigh, England.  (Photo by Harriet Lander &#8211; Chelsea FC\/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MANCHESTER: &#8211; Chelsea wrapped up their sixth consecutive Women&#8217;s Super League title and record-extending eighth in total after a 1-0 victory at Manchester United on Wednesday, with Lucy Bronze heading home a corner late in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonia Bompastor&#8217;s Blues, who needed only a point from Wednesday&#8217;s match to secure another title and continue their WSL dominance, sit atop the league table with 54 points for an unassailable nine-point lead over Arsenal with two games remaining. United are third on 43 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite terrific scoring chances for both sides, the game looked headed for a draw before Bronze leapt to head in Sandy Baltimore&#8217;s corner just inside the far post in the 74th minute sparking a celebration that looked like a mix of joy and relief from Bompastor&#8217;s players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great achievement,&#8221; Bompastor told Sky Sports. &#8220;It feels a bit unreal. Tonight it&#8217;s a team performance. We bounced back and showed the great character the team has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This league is really competitive. Maybe for some people they just think being Chelsea, it&#8217;s really easy for us to achieve this, but it isn&#8217;t,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We work really hard and we had the right mindset from the beginning of the season until now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team celebrated arm-in-arm in front of Chelsea&#8217;s visiting fans.<br>The title caps a remarkable debut season for Bompastor after she stepped into the shoes of former manager Emma Hayes, who left Chelsea after 12 trophy-laden seasons to coach the United States women&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bompastor has guided Chelsea to an undefeated season thus far, with 17 victories in their 20 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aston Villa had paved the way for Chelsea to clinch the title with their 5-2 hammering of Arsenal earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER: &#8211; Chelsea wrapped up their sixth consecutive Women&#8217;s Super League title and record-extending eighth in total after a 1-0 victory at Manchester United on Wednesday, with Lucy Bronze heading&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2404,631],"class_list":["post-28146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chelsea-football-club","tag-manchester-united-football-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28148,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions\/28148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}