It’s goals that have proved most elusive in the Women’s Super League for West Ham Women since the turn of the year, and despite finally registering two goals in back-to-back matches against Reading and Aston Villa respectively, their singularity means the Hammers are still without a league win this season and drifting further away from the table’s fifth-place berth.
Once again, West Ham were left ruing spurned chances as they fell to a 2-1 defeat to the Villains on Sunday. It was the same scoreline Paul Konchesky’s side were forced to reckon with against Reading the week prior after Vivianne Asseyi’s late equaliser was eclipsed by a Rachel Rowe screamer five minutes from full-time.
It was Asseyi again who would deliver in front of goal for the Hammers on Sunday, teeing up a tense finale in Dagenham. Nevertheless, despite Konchesky’s side fervently hunting for an equaliser, they were consigned to a fourth league defeat in five since January as neither Grace Fisk nor Dagný Brynjarsdóttir could put away late chances.
