The defending champions, Chelsea, were held at Manchester United in their opening game of the WSL season, a late equaliser from Leah Galton earning the home side a deserved point and rather spoiling Pernille Harder’s debut. The costliest signing in women’s football was waiting to come on when United pulled their goal back, though did enough in the 10 minutes she was allowed to suggest she might have been usefully deployed somewhat earlier.
“Clearly we are not at our best yet, we lacked a bit of aggression,” said the Chelsea head coach, Emma Hayes. “That said, I mentioned beforehand that I’d take a draw here. We knew United would be well organised and hard to break down and that’s what we found.”
Continue reading…The defending champions, Chelsea, were held at Manchester United in their opening game of the WSL season, a late equaliser from Leah Galton earning the home side a deserved point and rather spoiling Pernille Harder’s debut. The costliest signing in women’s football was waiting to come on when United pulled their goal back, though did enough in the 10 minutes she was allowed to suggest she might have been usefully deployed somewhat earlier.“Clearly we are not at our best yet, we lacked a bit of aggression,” said the Chelsea head coach, Emma Hayes. “That said, I mentioned beforehand that I’d take a draw here. We knew United would be well organised and hard to break down and that’s what we found.” Continue reading…
