Teagan Micah has saved a clear sheet on her Women’s Super League (WSL) debut, making a sequence of key saves as Liverpool beat Brighton 4-0.
Key factors:
- Samantha Kerr scored again to take her season tally to 12 targets from 11 matches
- Teagan Micah debuted for Liverpool and saved a clear sheet in a 4-0 victory
- Mary Fowler got here on as sub in Manchester City’s 7-0 victory over Tottenham
Sam Kerr scored for leaders Chelsea however so did Leicester’s Courtney Nevin, in her personal purpose after an unlucky rebound, in a combined afternoon at Kingsmeadow for the Australian teammates as Kerr’s reigning champions received 5-2.
Kerr now has 12 targets from 11 matches in the 2023/24 soccer season, with seven for Chelsea and 5 for the Matildas.
Caitlin Foord, Kyra Cooney-Cross and Steph Catley all began for Arsenal as they beat West Ham 3-0 to stay second, three factors behind Chelsea. England’s Beth Mead scored twice, her first league targets since getting back from the ACL harm that saved her out of the World Cup finals.
Alanna Kennedy’s Manchester City had a sensational time out as they smashed Tottenham 7-0, with the defender on deck all through and fellow Matildas star Mary Fowler approaching as a sub as Jamaica’s Khadiha Shaw and England’s Laura Coombs bagged hat-tricks. They stay third, six factors adrift of Chelsea.
Manchester United received 2-0 at Bristol City, with World Cup topscorer Hinata Miyazawa on track. Australia’s Clare Wheeler performed for Everton in a 2-1 win over Aston Villa.
Matildas goalkeeper Micah, who has been ready for her first WSL begin since becoming a member of from Swedish membership Rosengard in July, produced three essential saves earlier than the match towards Charlize Rule’s Brighton was 10 minutes previous.
First she pushed apart a deflected Pauline Bremer shot, then beat away Maisie Symonds’s inswinging nook below stress and tipped over a harmful cross-shot from Brighton’s main scorer Elisabeth Terland.
Micah was overwhelmed in the thirteenth minute as Terland glanced one other Symonds nook goalwards, however Gemma Bonner cleared the ball off the road.
Liverpool went on to dominate, with Dutch ahead Shanice van de Sanden scoring to have a good time changing into a mom — her accomplice gave beginning to a woman on Tuesday.
Arnold, Grant dominated out of Matildas’ matches with harm
Matildas goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold has been dominated out of the looming pleasant sequence towards Canada due to an arm harm.
And defender Charlotte Grant may even miss the internationals this Friday and on December 5 resulting from a hamstring criticism.
The duo be part of Holly McNamara, who was withdrawn final week after struggling a torn anterior cruciate ligament, in pulling out of the sequence in Canada.
Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson has summoned Sydney FC’s Jada Whyman into the squad as considered one of three goalkeepers together with Lydia Williams and Teagan Micah.
Gustavsson has additionally referred to as up attacker Remy Siemsen and midfielder Alex Chidiac to hitch the 23-strong squad forward of Friday’s pleasant in Langford and recreation two in Vancouver.
Gustavsson enters the Matildas’ ultimate internationals of the yr amid hypothesis linking him to the vacant Sweden males’s head coach position.
Swedish outlet Sportsbladet final Friday reported Gustavsson had met with the Swedish Football Association and was considered one of three candidates for the position vacated by Janne Andersson.
Gustavsson, who’s Swedish, is contracted by Australia till after subsequent yr’s Paris Olympics.
In an announcement launched by Football Australia, Gustavsson burdened his dedication to the Matildas however didn’t immediately handle the Swedish report.
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