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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Simon Burnton

Chelsea crowned WSL champions after 1-0 win at Manchester United – as it happened

Chelsea's Lucy Bronze scores their first goal past Manchester United's Phallon Tullis-Joyce.
Chelsea's Lucy Bronze scores their first goal past Manchester United's Phallon Tullis-Joyce. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images/Reuters

And with that, I’m going to sign off. Congratulations Chelsea on another league title, and another game unbeaten. Here’s the match report again. Night!

Here’s Sonia Bompastor, title-winning coach:

I think it’s a great achievement. It feels a bit unreal because we weren’t expecting Arsenal to drop points tonight, but being able to win against a big team like United feels amazing. I told my team before the game, it’s a big opportunity for us tonight to take a step closer towards the title, even if I wasn’t expecting it to be achieved tonight. I’m so proud of the club.

Tonight it’s a team performance. We bounced back and showed the great character the team has.

This league is really competitive. Maybe for some people they just think being Chelsea it’s really easy for us to achieve this but it isn’t. We work really hard and we had the right mindset from the beginning of the season until now. It’s a lot of hard work every day.

After we lost to Barcelona I told them, this competition is over. It hurts, for sure, because it was one of our goals but we’re professionals and we had to focus on the next game and tonight was really important for us. Have one day maybe to feel sad, and then prepare to fight again.

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