West Ham overcomes Leicester City in a tight match
West Ham United Women secured a 1-0 victory over Leicester City WFC in a tense encounter at the Chigwell Construction Stadium in Dagenham, Essex, England.
The first goal of the match arrived in the 45th minute through a brilliant play by Viviane Asseyi, who received a precise pass from Melissa Pavi to beat the opposing goalkeeper. Leicester City, who showed a fighting spirit, were unable to find their way towards the opponent’s goal and were surpassed by West Ham in terms of shots on target (2-1).
The match was marked by a high number of fouls, 5 for West Ham and 7 for Leicester, resulting in four yellow cards being shown by the referees. The most notable disciplinary action was the yellow card received by Rose of Leicester in the 84th minute.
West Ham’s territorial dominance was evident, with 52% possession of the ball compared to Leicester’s 48%. However, Leicester managed to connect two more shots than West Ham (4-2), but only one of them was on target.
West Ham secured an important victory in their fight for a top spot in the FA WSL.
Substitutions leicester city wfc: at minute 66 S. Takarada came in and J. Cayman went out., at minute 66 D. Rose came in and H. Cain went out., at minute 76 C. Bott came in and A. Ale went out., at minute 90 J. Thibaud came in and D. Goodwin went out.
Substitutions west ham w: at minute 80 K. Smith came in and M. Pavi went out., at minute 89 D. Brynjarsdottir came in and A. Denton went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
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