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Chelsea Women 2-0 Man City Women: Mayra Ramirez and Guro Reiten send Sonia Bompastor’s side top of the WSL
Champions Chelsea beat title rivals Manchester City 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to move above them into top spot in the Women's Super League and continue their perfect start to the season.
Sonia Bompastor, Emma Hayes' successor as Chelsea boss, has become the first coach in WSL history to win their first seven games in the competition thanks to second-half goals from Mayra Ramirez and Guro Reiten just four minutes after each other.
Chelsea needed Ramirez's individual brilliance to open the match, seen by some as a title decider in the build-up, as the forward shook off City defender Alanna Kennedy before firing into the far corner after kicking the ball from worn halfway.
Reiten then made a supreme effort from the edge of the penalty area to deliver the killing blow. City struggled to keep pace with Chelsea as the match progressed and could easily have conceded a third.
City's Khadija Shaw, the WSL's top scorer, failed to punish two misplaced Chelsea passes in the first half. She initially pulled her shot wide, before putting too much on a pass when playing in Jil Roord.
Chelsea, winners of all seven WSL matches at Stamford Bridge, claim a decisive victory that puts them two points ahead of City with a game in hand.
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