Chelsea reached the quarter-finals of the Women’s FA Cup with victory over Arsenal at Kingsmeadow. Goals from Sophie Ingle and Sam Kerr were the difference as Emma Hayes’s side kept alive their ambitions of winning the trophy for the third successive time.
Hayes praised her side’s “mentality of champions” as they came through a situation that was “challenging” for both teams with the international break ending only three days earlier. “Well done to the players, because that is a bit of a slog,” she said. “That dictates the type of game it’s going to be. In the first half, it was a game of transitions … you have to set up right and I didn’t think we did in the first half. We adapted in the second.”
