Despite showing signs in the early stages of the 2024/25 season, Manchester United are currently closest to Chelsea’s opponents in the women’s super league race (WSL).
A distinct victory under the Leigh Sports Village Lights over the weekend she saw the United Triumph 3-0 over Brighton & Hove Albi WSL. The victory shoots second, now one point in front of their city rivals, and two points clean from Arsenal.
After gently starting the 2024/25 season, in which he ordered three scraps games, head coach Marc Skinner responded to criticism of a fans who called for his job. “We are still undefeated”said the main coach at the time, and since then they have won five of their six WSL meetings. Their only defeat came when Chelsea in Kingsmeadow abolished a 1-0 victory.
Skinner urged the fans to be patient, explaining, “The reality is that when you put the players in a new team, it takes some time to understand the key triggers of each other.”
The team adapted to high traffic summer and seems to play with a clear sense of identity on the field. Now seven points intended Chelsea At the top of the league ladder, the question is whether United are the closest candidates in the WSL title race.
Early Zadna S. ArsenalBrighton and Aston Villa had most fans writing red devils from the race with the title before it even started. The players looked a little confidence, and Skinner’s game plan didn’t seem to have had a tangible reward. Now it seems that patience was all that should come back to the conversation.
Except 4-2 throws City man In the recent derby, none of the results of United spoke loud voices. The team submitted Liverpool in demolishing 4-0 before Christmas, before doing the same with Seagulli last Sunday with a 3-0 victory.
A pleasant 2-0 victory over Leicester City at King Power Stadium was the first sign of a revival, and a close 1-0 job over Crystal Palace should have been easier with the amounts of shots created by the side.
Before we all knew it, United went to another place, and now we have left the questioning that they are a true threat to the top of the table. Man City and Arsenal waved a goodbye to comfort, and now they will have to fight the Champions League qualifiers.
Ella Toone has returned to her best and it’s sure to look great. The midfielder returned from injury in the early stages of January, welcomed against West Bromwich Albion to Adobe Women Fa Cup.
From there she continued to lift the ceiling. The Manchester derby’s debut goal has quickly become a hat-trick as The red devil from childhood waved the city at the Etihad Stadium. Return to the leaf last Sunday, Tone put his team ahead of Brighton in less than two minutes.
After what was Hard personal period for the English midfielderThe 25-year-old was again and again by United’s hero. Skinner will need his superstar to step up even more if his side will compete at the top of the league ladder.
Although United is currently following Chelsea with seven points, the side has a supreme defense record. Level on clean leaves with Arsenal and Chelsea (8), Skinner’s side has received the least goals this season.
Phallon Tullis-Joyce deserves his flowers, inappropriately tossed the number one shirt after inserting the time on the bench behind Mary Earps. The American goalkeeper was phenomenal for United and the main reason why the side was abolished in defense.
The owner of Man United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, was known for his insidious comments on the women’s team. Ratcliffe, who has complete control of the club’s sports hand, said to United that she stood fascinates to: “There is only so much you can do and our focus was on the men’s team.”
Fans were rightly outraged by the comments of executive director Ineos, marking them as the complete disrespect for the action of the female side. Arsenal Legend Ian Wright He even took to a microphone to express his frustrations on a female football podcast Crossing, claiming that Ratcliffe “didn’t care about the women’s team.”
With the male side still stuck in an insecure struggle, now 12. In Premier league Data, the women’s team seems to be the only hope of the club in the Silverware league. Any logic would assume that this would be an invitation to invest in order to bridge the already closed gap between United and the top of the table, but to say that Ratcliffe was even attention, it might be a hope.
Despite all the positive results currently surrounded by United, the bottom is not their fight to win, unfortunately, Chelsea lost. Unbeaten at all competitions since Sonia Bompastor has taken over the post, it is increasingly likely that the side will perish before the end of the season.
Even if United wants to win in every last of his WSL knots, he will still demand that Chelsea lower more than seven points to even have a little hope of achieving WSL silver accessories.
At this stage, a successful league campaign for United will measure whether or not to achieve a qualifying place in the UEFA Women’s Champions League. In a four -sided race for the European place, United will be against City and Arsenal in the Battle of the first three. This will be a hard task for all the clubs involved, but United is surely in the driver’s place.
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