{"id":11469,"date":"2023-11-27T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T21:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/11469\/chelsea-stay-top-of-wsl\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T00:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T21:15:06","slug":"chelsea-stay-top-of-wsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=11469","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea stay top of WSL as Mead fires brace for Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea stay top of WSL as Mead fires brace for Arsenal\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea<\/strong>Lauren James scored twice as her team beat <strong>The city of Leicester<\/strong> 5-2 on Sunday to remain top of the Women&#8217;s Super League ahead of the final international break of 2023, while Beth Mead&#8217;s double held <strong>Arsenal <\/strong>second after a 3-0 victory <strong>West Ham United<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>James struck in the second minute to put Chelsea ahead, and a Courtney Nevin own goal three minutes later put them 2-0 up, and although Leicester pulled them back to 2-1 and 3-2 , a second goal from James and a goal from Agnes Beever-Jones secured all three points for the home side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s Frida Maanum also scored in the second minute for her side before England international Beth Mead, recently returned after a long spell out with an anterior cruciate ligament injury, added two more goals in the first half during their 3-0 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> over West Ham.  .<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Beth Mead scored her first goals for Arsenal since returning from the ACL injury she suffered last November. <cite>Getty<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Chelsea remain unbeaten in the league and top the table with 22 points, three ahead of Arsenal and seven ahead of third. <strong>Manchester United<\/strong>who won 2-0 away <strong>City of Bristol<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liverpool <\/strong>moved up to fourth place with a 4-0 victory <strong>Brighton and Hove Albion<\/strong>but they could be replaced either by <strong>Manchester City<\/strong> Or <strong>Tottenham Hotspur<\/strong> who face each other later on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea stay top of WSL as Mead fires brace for Arsenal\u060c ChelseaLauren James scored twice as her team beat The city of Leicester 5-2 on Sunday to remain top of the Women&#8217;s Super League ahead of the final international break of 2023, while Beth Mead&#8217;s double held Arsenal second after a 3-0 victory West Ham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[439,3277,2687,6488,6487,950,357,3216],"class_list":["post-11469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-brace","tag-chelsea","tag-fires","tag-mead","tag-stay","tag-top","tag-wsl"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11471,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions\/11471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}