Football Writers Award winner, Sam Kerr was once again the difference on Sunday as Chelsea beat Manchester United at Wembley to win a third successive Women’s FA Cup.
It was United who almost got off to a dream start, though, when Leah Galton found the back of the net after only 20 seconds. However, Ella Toone had strayed half a yard offside before setting her up to finish. Still, it set the tone for the first half, in which United were much the better side. Centre-back Millie Turner would be denied from close range by a brilliantly instinctive Ann-Katrin Berger save, while Galton broke into the box again soon after and fired high and wide at the near post from Alessia Russo’s delivery. It was an absolutely golden chance.
Chelsea’s biggest chance would come after the break, with Kerr pouncing on Maya Le Tissier’s error to break down the right. From there, she’d find Pernille Harder in the box but the Dane, taking her first touches of the match having come on moments earlier, couldn’t finish. Instead, that same combo would break the deadlock almost immediately afterwards, Harder picking out an unmarked Kerr in the box to finish. It continued the Aussie’s remarkable record at Wembley, this her fifth goal in four visits. All of those previous trips have ended in her lifting silverware and this would prove no different, even though Sophie Ingle missed a great chance to make sure of the win late on when picked out by Kerr.
