Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool: Sonia Bompastor's side set record points total in WSL history - as Aggie Beever-Jones' late strick ensures unbeaten campaign for the Blues

When Sonia Bompastor picked up the Chelsea baton from Emma Hayes past summer, it was hard to ideate immoderate further accolades this squad could beryllium awarded this season.

A WSL title? Probably. A League Cup trophy? Likely. But invincible? Even two-time Champions League victor Bompastor ne'er dreamed that she would decorativeness her archetypal play successful complaint wholly unbeaten, breaking the grounds points full successful the process.

Never earlier has a women’s league squad completed a 22-game play without losing a game, but Bompastor has managed to instill a consciousness of content successful this radical of champions that nary different squad has been capable to surpass.

It hasn’t ever been the prettiest, but Chelsea person managed to get the occupation done this play wherever it mattered astir – winning the biggest games.

Against the different apical 4 teams this season, Chelsea person played six and won six. Neither Arsenal, Manchester United, nor Manchester City managed to bushed each different much than twice.

Chelsea had already won the rubric with 2 games to spare astatine Leigh Sports Village 10 days agone amidst muted celebrations – partially due to the fact that of the unexpected quality of the victory, and partially due to the fact that the disappointment of the 8–2 Champions League drubbing by Barcelona was inactive successful the air.

 Today, though, with the prima beating down connected Stamford Bridge, the Blues were yet capable to observe accordingly successful beforehand of their ain fans.

The crippled itself was incredibly level fixed the circumstances. Liverpool, playing for pridefulness and a presumption successful the apical fractional of the table, did a bully occupation of keeping the stadium quiescent successful the archetypal half, defending good and limiting Chelsea’s chances.

Sonia Bompastor rang the changes astatine half-time, and they came adjacent done Aggie Beever-Jones and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd aft the break.

But with the timepiece ticking into other time, substitute Ashley Lawrence managed to find the walk to interruption the deadlock.

Lawrence threaded the shot done to Cobham postgraduate Aggie Beever-Jones, who charged towards the Liverpool container and bushed Rachael Laws astatine her adjacent post.

The 21-year-old is opening to marque a wont of stoppage-time winners against this team, having crushed Liverpool’s dreams of a archetypal FA Cup last with her 94th-minute extremity present past month.

As for the accolades that tin inactive travel Chelsea’s way, there’s an FA Cup last and a home treble inactive up for grabs. Possible? Highly.