Chelsea needed a late goal of Sarah Mayling to keep Adth Aston Villa to keep their seven -point lead on the Women's Super League Summit on Sunday.
With eight minutes in Villa Park, Mayling unintentionally changed Maika Hamano's attempt to square ball for Mayra Ramirez in her own net from six meters out.
Villa under pressure Chelsea from the off and took almost an early lead when Gabi Nunes' attempt was just caught by Back-Tracking Blues goalkeeper Hannah Hampton.
Kirsty Hanson then hit the bottom of the Dwarsbalk early in the second period, but the late mistake by Mayling gave the blues their 12th victory in 13 WSL matches.
The first match of Natalia Arroyo, because Villa Boss offered a lot of encouragement, but said that the result against the title defender was a loud welcome at the division.
“We feel disappointed because we were so close,” Arroyo BBC Two said on full -time. “I am unhappy because the girls pushed very hard, and it is a strange goal.”
Villa stays at 10th at 10 points, with the results of Sunday in their favor, while they stay dangerous above the relegation zone after 13 games of their campaign.
But hot on the heels of Chelsea are Manchester United, with the sixth minute stunner of Elisabeth Terland who won the Red Devils a 1-0 win over Tottenham in the last game of the day.
After Arsenal's earlier victory over Manchester City, Marc Skinner led his way back to the second in the rankings to extend their winning WSL -Run to five games.
Terland finished brilliantly from the cross of Jayde Rivere in the box and came in from the left to send a sweet first time volley outside the handle of Lize Kop.
United insisted for a second and almost found a way through, but in-shape Ella Toone could not continue her scoring streak because her printed effort hit the mail.
Terland, Leah Galton and Dominique Janssen spread further possibilities to increase their lead before the break, where tracks improved after the interval.
Josefine Rybrink had two efforts in the box that were quickly blocked in succession before Jessica Naz Phallon Tullis-Joyce forced into a routine stop just after the hour.
And Spurs could not break the strictest defense in the WSL this season, with the result that they were lagging behind the sixth in the table and 10 points on drift of the top three.
On the other side of the table, Everton remained from danger after the thrashing of colleague relegation Rivals Leicester City with 4-1 in Walton Hall Park.
The side of Brian Sorensen earned their first WSL victory since they was astonished for Manchester City in December and, after their third victory from the season, increased to the eighth.
Kelly Gago opened the score in the fifth minute after he stopped the ball after good work by Heather Payne, although Shannon O'Brien recovered parity shortly afterwards.
But the Toffees recovered their advantage three minutes after the break when Katja Snoeijs passed Janina Leitzig after good work by Toni Payne.
Honoka Hayashi set the result without a doubt just before the hour, where Gago took her brace in the 69th minute to seal a huge victory for Everton.
In the meantime, Bottom-Club Crystal Palace ended a point of five straight WSL defeats after my Cato had saved a late draw against 10 player Brighton.
Palace had gone through its own goal after 18 minutes when the back-pass of defender Lily Woodham under goalkeeper Milla-Maj Majasaari's foot and rolled in.
But the side of Laura Kaminski received a postponement three minutes after the restart when Maisie Symonds a straight red card was shown for a high challenge on Aimee Everett.
And while the game ended, Cato appeared in the 88th minute with the level and tapped the ball outside the grip of Melina Loeck after he was selected by Woodham.
Liverpool also bounced back from their shock destruction to Leicester previous time-out, where Leanne Kiernan scored the only goal in a narrow 1-0 win over West Ham.
The Reds moved 10 points free from the relegation zone, while this season they also earned back-to-back WSL-home profits for the first time.
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