Chelsea showed the attitude of champions as they edged nearer to the WSL title with a fighting 3-1 triumph over Tottenham, notwithstanding playing more than an hour with 10 players.
Ann-Katrin Berger saw red for Chelsea in the principal half with the scores level at 1-1 following Sophie Ingle's own objective and Guro Reiten's dinked finish. Notwithstanding their one-player shortfall, Sam Kerr and Jessie Fleming got in the last part to acquire a critical three focuses for the Blues.
It was Spurs who took a shock lead following 14 minutes, Molly Bartrip releasing her internal 'Katie Zelem' and clacking the post direct from a corner. The ball bounced back onto the knee of the appalling Ingle and skipped into the net.
Be that as it may, Spurs' unexpected benefit endured only 11 minutes as Chelsea evened out through Reiten. The Norwegian winger delivered an electric turn of speed to consume past Ashleigh Neville, and her cross-shot tracked down the top corner.
Kerr hoped to have been given a once in a lifetime chance to put Chelsea ahead as she profited by a free Tottenham back pass and hustled clean through, just to humorously lose her balance at the essential second and hit the deck.Moments later, it was Rachel Williams who hit the deck - yet dissimilar to Kerr at the opposite end, this was not independently. The Spurs striker was cleared out by Berger as she endeavored to adjust the Chelsea goalkeeper following a wonderful Jess Naz pass. The German was provided her walking orders and the Blues were decreased to 10 players with an hour left at work.
The two sides had chances to start to lead the pack in the beginning phases of the final part; Kerr was chosen fabulously by Reiten, however Tinja-Riikka Korpela was out rapidly to deny the Chelsea striker. This save was then bettered by Zecira Musovic, who acrobatically tipped Kerys Harrop's cross away from risk.
It seemed as though it probably won't be Kerr's day after she was again kept out, this time by a deafening test from Arsenal-loanee Viktoria Schnaderbeck. In any case, the Australian wouldn't be denied, and with 19 minutes remaining she rose most noteworthy to head Jonna Andersson's cross into the net.
Jessie Fleming got a long reach shocker in stoppage time to seal the triumph and expand Chelsea's lead at the WSL culmination.
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