Arsenal moved stage on factors with Chelsea on the high of the Ladies’s Tremendous League with a 4-1 rout of the champions in entrance of a league-record crowd of 59,042 on the Emirates Stadium.
Alessia Russo scored twice with Amanda Ilestedt additionally on the scoresheet after Johanna Rytting Kaneryd had cancelled out Beth Mead’s opener.
Mead capped a swift counter-attack eight minutes in, however Chelsea wanted solely 5 minutes to stage via Rytting Kaneryd who beat Manuela Zinsberger at her close to submit with a shot from distance.
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The sport was all however determined with two objectives in three minutes earlier than half-time. Chelsea goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger got here off her line however bought nowhere close to Steph Catley’s nook as Ilestedt headed into the empty internet for her first WSL objective, and Russo then completed off one other counter-attack.
The fourth got here within the 72nd minute. Berger got here out to problem Russo and, though Jess Carter gained the ball and knocked it away from the Arsenal ahead, the referee signalled a penalty as Russo tumbled over Berger, who shook her head in disbelief earlier than being crushed from the spot.
The outcome places Arsenal on 22 factors, second to Chelsea on objective distinction, with Manchester Metropolis three factors again in third.
