{"id":296383,"date":"2023-11-13T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=296383"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:24:00","slug":"five-talking-points-from-the-wsl-as-city-fail-to-put-away-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/five-talking-points-from-the-wsl-as-city-fail-to-put-away-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Five talking points from the WSL, as City fail to put away chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Five talking points from a busy WSL weekend: Aggie Beever-Jones shows Man City&#8217;s strikers where they&#8217;re going wrong, Marc Skinner sets his standards high and\u00a0Jonas Eidevall&#8217;s words of wisdom inspire Arsenal comeback<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It was a busy weekend in the WSL with goals coming thick and fast on Saturday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arsenal claimed a 6-2 win against Leicester, while Chelsea beat Everton 3-0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DOMINIC KING: I don&#8217;t understand what football is anymore &#8211; It&#8217;s All Coming Up<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a busy weekend of action in the Women&#8217;s Super League, with plenty of goals coming on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brighton upset the odds to defeat Man City 1-0, with the Cityzens now winless in their last two WSL matches, with\u00a0Lee Geum-min scoring for the Seagulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal stayed top of the table, with the Gunners hammering Leicester 6-2, while Emma Hayes&#8217; side, who trail them by three points, claimed a resounding 3-0 victory against Everton away from home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham and Liverpool also went toe-to-toe in a huge clash, with Celin Bizet Ildhusoy and\u00a0Sophie Haug both scoring for their respective sides to halve the points at 1-1, while Man United thumped West Ham 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Mail Sport looks at five key talking points from this weekend&#8217;s action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77729619-0-image-a-1_1699865442956.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Manchester City failed to convert their chances on Saturday afternoon as they were beaten 1-0 by Brighton<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77729681-0-image-a-2_1699865450334.jpg\" height=\"444\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>City are currently sixth in the WSL standings, but are only one-point off a berth in the top-four<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77729673-0-image-a-3_1699865454669.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee Geum-Min scored in the 91st minute for Brighton to seal the victory\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<h2>Same old story for wasteful City<\/h2>\n<p>Manchester City&#8217;s biggest problem last season was failing to convert their chances and the same problem came back to haunt them against Brighton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite having 35 shots across 90 minutes, Gareth Taylor\u2019s side could not find the back of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City wasted several clear-cut chances and were made to pay when their former player Lee Geum-min scored the only goal of the game for the visitors. \u2018We were off the pace,\u2019 Taylor admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s on us, we should have had many goals but it just didn\u2019t happen. We showed a little bit of endeavour towards the end but that\u2019s when we started to clutch at our chances.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was not an easy week for Taylor, who was in the spotlight after accusing Arsenal manager Jonas Eidevall of bullying the fourth official during City\u2019s 2-1 defeat last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Eidevall said Taylor\u2019s comments bordered on \u2018slander\u2019 and called for him to apologise.<\/p>\n<h2>Aggie is a super sub!\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Aggie Beever-Jones could perhaps show Manchester City\u2019s forwards where they are going wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The young Chelsea striker has played just 68 minutes of football this season and has not started a game but already has three goals to her name.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Hayes opted not to send the forward out on loan after previous spells with Bristol City and Everton and it is a decision that looks to be paying off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beever-Jones scored the third in Chelsea\u2019s 3-0 victory over the Toffees with a superb strike into the top left corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sam Kerr will always lead the line in the big games when she is fit, but the 20-year-old is certainly proving she can be an able deputy and could provide the Australian with some much-needed rest later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>With Sarina Wiegman\u2019s England team struggling for goals of late, a first senior call-up for Beever-Jones is perhaps not too far away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77729563-0-image-a-5_1699865513417.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Aggie Beever-Jones is showing that she can be a more-than capable deputy to Sam Kerr<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77729895-0-image-a-6_1699865519390.jpg\" height=\"460\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>She scored during Chelsea&#8217;s 3-0 victory against Everton and should certainly be in the running for an England call-up soon<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77729927-0-image-a-7_1699865559407.jpg\" height=\"408\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Celin Bizet scored for Tottenham during their 1-1 draw against Liverpool and followed in her fiance, Aron Donnum&#8217;s footsteps\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Couple goals\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Tottenham forward Celin Bizet followed in her fiance Aron Donnum\u2019s footsteps by scoring against Liverpool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bizet put Spurs ahead with an impressive solo run and strike, three days after Donnum scored for Toulouse in their 3-2 Europa League victory against the Reds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham boss Robert Vilahamn was full of praise for Bizet after the game. \u2018Very impressed, she was unhappy last performance when I took her off, so we had a little meeting about that, but she needed to develop and she did that the whole week.<\/p>\n<p>She took that ball and had a good finish [today]. That\u2019s exactly how I want her to work, so overall she was brilliant for 90 minutes and was a threat all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Good game \u2013 wonderful goal.\u2019 Unlike Donnum\u2019s side, however, Spurs were unable to hold on to their lead with Bizet\u2019s Norwegian compatriot Sophie Roman Haug equalising for Liverpool in the second half.<\/p>\n<h2>Skinner wants more after 5-0 win\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Manchester United may have hit West Ham for five goals but Marc Skinner still demanded more from his side at full-time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having five different goalscorers &#8211; Geyse, Millie Turner, Nikita Parris, Lucia Garcia and Melvine Malard &#8211; Skinner thought his players eased off after going 3-0 up at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m happy with the result, goals and clean sheet but I want to be consistent in the message I give to the media and the start to the second half wasn\u2019t good enough,\u2019 Skinner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We were sloppy, we had become too comfortable after the first half and I thought the first half was excellent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The best thing about our group is that I said this at the end in the huddle and they were like \u201cyes, we agree.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We want the highest standards possible at Manchester United across the 90 minutes.\u2019 United have now scored 12 goals in two games after thrashing Everton 7-0 in the League Cup last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77729625-0-image-a-8_1699865562995.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jonas Eidevall&#8217;s half-time team talk inspired Arsenal to turn around a two-goal deficit into a 6-2 victory<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/08\/77730073-0-image-a-9_1699865897303.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alessia Russo scored to help her side come back against Leicester to extend their winning streak to five consecutive matches<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<h2>Jonas&#8217;s words of wonder\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Jonas Eidevall needed to give his Arsenal side an \u2018emotional\u2019 half-time team talk but even he could not have expected his players to turn their fortunes around quite as dramatically as they did.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners trailed 2-0 against Leicester at half-time after two goals in two minutes from Sam Tierney and Janice Cayman<\/p>\n<p>But Eidevall\u2019s side came out fighting in the second half. Chloe Lacasse halved the deficit before Alessia Russo equalised three minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Two more quickfire goals from Caitlin Foord and Victoria Pelova turned the game on its head before further strikes from Stina Blackstenius and Lina Hurtig took Arsenal\u2019s total to six.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m going to need a couple of days to get over that I think,\u2019 Leicester boss Willie Kirk admitted. \u2018What a lesson it is to show us how good we can be, and then what can happen to you if you are off it by even half a yard.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12742619\/Five-talking-points-busy-WSL-weekend-Aggie-Beever-Jones-shows-Man-Citys-strikers-theyre-going-wrong-Marc-Skinner-sets-standards-high-Jonas-Eidevalls-words-wisdom-inspire-Arsenal-comeback.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five talking points from a busy WSL weekend: Aggie Beever-Jones shows Man City&#8217;s strikers where they&#8217;re going wrong, Marc Skinner sets his standards high and\u00a0Jonas Eidevall&#8217;s words of wisdom inspire Arsenal comeback It was a busy weekend in the WSL with goals coming thick and fast on Saturday\u00a0 Arsenal claimed a 6-2 win against Leicester, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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