Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action
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Shouts for Renée Slegers gain volume, Chelsea’s winning run ends and Shaun Goater gets off to a fine start. After 10 games without defeat in her interim role, the chorus of voices calling for Arsenal to extend Renée Slegers’s tenure gets louder by the week. Before taking to the opposite dugout on Sunday, Matt Beard, the Liverpool head coach, lauded her for doing “a fantastic job” and said it would be “great for the game” were she to stay on permanently; afterwards, Alessia Russo, the match-winner, credited Slegers with instilling fresh motivation in the team. Arsenal were far from perfect against Liverpool but, in grinding out a 1-0 win on Merseyside, showed a resilience that was lacking under Jonas Eidevall at the start of the season. They have cohesion, focus and a sense of direction, marks of a team making real progress. Will Magee.
![[Missy Goodwin (right) challenges for a header]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e69602f8980a924495e81dedbb672c9d4216a239/0_39_2599_1560/master/2599.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Match report: Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal. Chelsea’s first slip up in this season’s Women’s Super League was a surprising one. They salvaged a point against Leicester after falling behind for the first time this season having had 81 touches in Leicester’s area but ultimately scoring only one goal. Sonia Bompastor expressed her frustration with her side’s performance. “We need to realise when we play this kind of team who have a low and compact block, we need to have more creativity on the pitch,” she said. “In some chances we were not accurate enough so we need to be more efficient.” Despite the two dropped points, Chelsea actually extended their lead at the top of the table due to Manchester City being shocked by Everton, but have Leicester punctured the champions’ air of invincibility? Suzanne Wrack.
![[Spurs on the ball against Brighton]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d30e9eacd1f7d6754c04222eacfc33d0f149297/0_280_3814_2288/master/3814.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
