Women’s Super League action returned to the Academy Stadium with Brighton the visitors for a goal-scoring masterclass from Manchester City’s Chloe Kelly, Julie Blakstad and Laura Coombs in their eighth unbeaten game of the season, in all competitions.
Gareth Taylor’s side played with a patient pass-and-move style that paid dividends as they made Brighton chase the ball for the majority of the game. The win looked almost certain within 26 minutes when Laura Coombs’ fireball shot from the edge of the box gave the Sky Blues a 3-goal lead until Lee Geum-min gave the visitors their consolation goal in the dying seconds of the game.
Chloe Kelly had broken the deadlock as she netted her first of the WSL season from a perfectly placed corner kick, that was tucked inside the front post early on. It was only 11 minutes into the game when the hosts opened the scoring with some attributing it to a Veatriki Sarri own-goal and seven minutes later Julie Blakstad doubled City’s lead from a diving header to redirect Kelly’s ball in.
