{"id":26280,"date":"2025-05-01T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=26280"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:14:09","slug":"chelsea-beat-man-united-to-win-wsl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=26280","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea beat Man United to win WSL title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"26281\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746076298423.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746076298423.jpg 720w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746076298423-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/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":4,"featured_media":26281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2313,645],"class_list":["post-26280","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:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26282,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26280\/revisions\/26282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}