Arsenal Women

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Arsenal v Chelsea: Women's Super League – live (The Guardian)

Minute-by-minute report: Follow all the action from the table-top clash in the Women's Super League with Rob Smyth.

Chelsea have fewer injury concerns, though Pernille Harder is still missing with a hamstring injury, and they looked in ominously good shape before the winter break. Hello and welcome to live coverage of Arsenal v Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal are without Vivianne Miedema and Beth Mead, who are both out for the season with cruciate-ligament injuries, but Leah Williamson and Kim Little should start their first WSL games since the autumn and the exciting signings Kathrine Kuhl and Victoria Pelova may be involved from the bench. Chelsea pipped Arsenal to the title by a point last year; this season Chelsea are three points clear having played a match more. Leah Williamson and Kim Little return to the side as expected. She scuffs her shot on the run and Musovic makes a comfortable save to her left. “In theory, Paramount+ has the US broadcast rights to the WSL,” says Joe Pearson, “but they apparently don’t think this top of the table clash is worth their notice. Blackstenius runs at a backpedalling Chelsea defence and slips a lovely reverse pass through to Hurtig in the area. Foord cuts inside from the left, slithers past Charles and thrashes a right-foot shot from a tight angle that is claimed at the second attempt by Musovic. She robs Rafaelle in her own half, swerves elegantly past Catley and makes for the penalty area. Most of them look very relaxed, though the captains Kim Little and Magda Eriksson hav their gamefaces on. They will be carrying the United vs Liverpool game later today.”

Women's line-up: Arsenal vs Chelsea (Chelsea FC)

For her first selection of 2023, Emma Hayes makes just one change from the side that beat PSG in the Women's Champions League shortly before Christmas.

[Jessie Fleming](/en/teams/profile/jessie-fleming) returns to the starting line-up in place of [Fran Kirby](/en/teams/profile/fran-kirby) who is on the bench today. [Zecira Musovic](/en/teams/profile/zecira-musovic) continues in goal and [Sam Kerr](/en/teams/profile/sam-kerr) leads the attack. Chelsea: Musovic; Charles, Buchanan, Bright, Eriksson (c), Cuthbert, Ingle, James, Fleming, Reiten, Kerr.

Arsenal Women 1-1 Chelsea Women: Sam Kerr heads late ... (Sky Sports)

Match report and free highlights as Sam Kerr scored a late leveller to steal a share of the spoils against dominant Arsenal; Kim Littles contentious penalty ...

This was the chance to steal a march. It's not easy to come here but we stayed in the game. Arsenal were asking all the questions, but only made a breakthrough via a debatable penalty decision. "There were so many good performances out there today, that's why the game was tied. "Look, I think we can spend a lot of time talking about different rules and laws in the game. "It's a big goal in the title race. We always know we have good substitutes coming off the bench and they came big for us today. VAR needs to be in the game whether it's to confirm or deny it. If we can build that together, that's the togetherness we want." All in all, from a performance perspective, I'm proud of the way we played. I would have liked to win today, we deserved to win, so I'm disappointed with that but I'm very happy with the performance. "Looking again, the collision is outside, so it's maybe a little bit fortuitous," Sue Smith said on Sky Sports' live coverage.

Arsenal issue statement after hordes of supporters left stranded ... (Football.London)

Nearly 47000 supporters turned out for the London derby between title rivals Arsenal and Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon to mark the ...

Arsenal’s statement in full reads: "Our matchday operation was the same as every other fixture and event at the Emirates Stadium. READ MORE: [Arsenal Women](https://www.football.london/all-about/arsenal-women) have issued a statement in response to a large number of supporters stranded outside the Emirates Stadium at the start of the Gunner’s WSL clash against title rivals [Chelsea ](https://www.football.london/all-about/chelsea-women)due to overwhelmed turnstiles.

Arsenal Women 1-1 Chelsea: 3 talking points as Kerr denies ... (The Short Fuse)

Arsenal and Chelsea played out a 1-1 draw at the Emirates Stadium as the second half of the WSL season got underway. Arsenal took the lead through a Kim ...

In any event, while the timing of the match, one of the biggest of the season and the first after the winter break, was unfortunate, Eidevall could’ve done more, and it might’ve meant Arsenal saw out the end of the match—not least because Chelsea scored from a cross. Arsenal did create good openings: in the first half, Hurtig shot tamely with her left foot when played in, and shot into the side netting when she could’ve crossed to Foord, and then her header in the second half, which was straight at Musovic. Afterwards, he explained that new signings Victoria Pelova and Kathrine Kühl, and Gio Queiroz, who returned from loan, hadn’t trained enough with Arsenal to have an impact. Arsenal and Chelsea played out a 1-1 draw at the Emirates Stadium as the second half of the WSL season got underway. There, Arsenal were excellent in winning first and second balls, before playing out of Chelsea pressure—often by being more direct themselves. So, in a positive twist, Arsenal conceded only two shots on target; unfortunately, Sam Kerr scored with one.

Women 1 - 1 Chelsea Women - Match Report (Arsenal.com)

Over 46,500 supporters packed into Emirates Stadium on London Derby day as we kicked off 2023 with a draw with league leaders Chelsea.

As the visitors went in pursuit of a way back into the match, our Gunners weathered chance after chance. Skipper Kim Little stepped up to convert from the spot with ease to put us 1-0 ahead of our London rivals. She then played off a perfect ball to Lina Hurtig at the edge of the area but the Swede’s shot just lacked the power needed to beat Musovic in goal.

Three Things We Learned after Arsenal Women were held by Chelsea (Online Gooner)

Caitlin Foord and Lina Hurtig provided a threat out wide, but Stina Blackstenius still doesn't seem to strike real fear into opposition defences. Only time will ...

in the first half but weren’t clinical in front of goal. 46,811 tickets were sold, including a packed away end, and it was Arsenal who flew out of the blocks, serenaded by a superb crowd to really put Chelsea under pressure in the first half. The Gunners ultimately lacked the end product that their two injured towards so often provide, and whilst creating plenty of chances- especially in the first half- Arsenal just didn’t display the ruthless touch that was required against a top side.