Arsenal held the Super League title on Tuesday evening on Tuesday evening in the hope of alive and cruised for a commander 5-1 victory over Leicester City at the Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners started a perfect start and dominated the early minutes with a calculated high press, before Caitlin Foord broke the impasse in the ninth minute, ticking in an excellent Frida Maanum cross on the back post.
The hosts doubled their lead only seven minutes later, while a swept team moved from behind, culminated in Stina Blackstenius who thrown in from close range after Beth Mead had hit a low ball over the face of the goal.
Leicester briefly threatened a reaction, but the foxes simply couldn't handle the pressure and admitted a third to the half hour. Goalscorers Blackstenius and Foord together to add to the advantage of Arsenal, where the first shot of the latter took a deflection on the way to the net.
The Gunners started to enjoy themselves from there, with a victory in sight to limit the gap with competition leaders Chelsea to just three points.
Arsenal manager Renee SLESERS brought a few changes during the break, so that the Gunners' upcoming ladies Champions League loved semi-final with Lyon on Saturday.
But it didn't matter, because the hosts kept pins back, with Mead arriving in perfect time to send a header in the net just past the hour, after a delicious solo run by Kim Little.
The foxes fought admirable and withdrew a consolation goal in the 65th minute, thanks to the strike by Nicole Momiki from just outside the penalty area.
But the Gunners went on with an emphatic style, with Victoria Pelova who stuck home a volley after Katie McCabe's Set piece attempted in the 69th minute of the woodwork.
The dominant performance of Arsenal keeps them in second place in the WSL classification, three points behind Chelsea with two more games, while Leicester suffers their 11th loss of the season and they 10th place, only two points on Tottenham.
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Debrief data: High -flying gunners keep a perfect record about Leicester
With Tuesday's victory, Arsenal has now won each of their eight WSL meetings with Leicester City with a total score of 29-3. But interesting is that this was the first time that the Gunners did not hold a clean slate at home against the foxes.
However, Arsenal's Dominance 2025 is unparalleled, without a team that has won more points (24) or scored more goals (34) in the WSL than the Gunners so far this year.
Prior to Tuesday's collision, the Gunners were on average 3.6 goals per match during their eight games this calendar year-the second best rate by a team in one year in the WSL after Chelsea in 2017 (53 goals in 13 matches-4.1 on average).
On Tuesday they performed heavily on their expected goals (XG) value of 2.69, with 19 shots, 10 of which were on goal wounds. In the meantime, Leicester led four shots on goal from their five attempts, on a regrettable XG of 0.17.
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