Manchester United missed the opportunity to lower Chelsea's lead at the top of the ladies' Super League to three points while stumbling at a 0-0 draw at West Ham.
With Chelsea not in competition promotion this weekend because of their involvement in the semi-final of the Women's Champions League, the Marc Skinner team could have moved in one victory of the defensive champions and catching up of the second placed Arsenaal.
But they were unable to find a way in the Chigwell Construction Stadium when West Ham extended their unbeaten run to four games.
Celin Bizet hit the woodwork twice in the first half and first hit the pole and then saw a corner delivery clip the bar.
The header of Elisabeth Terland was taken away by Kinga Szemik two minutes after the restart, and that was the best chance that both teams created in a second half of a retained second half.
West Ham are now 11 points from the soil club Crystal Palace, while United remains third, five points drift from Chelsea and eight free from Manchester City in fourth place.
Liverpool jumped Brighton in fifth place with a 2-1 victory at the Amex Stadium.
After just two minutes, Olivia Smith hit the Reds in front, then Leanne Kiernan, who helped the opener, doubled their lead in the 43rd minute.
Brighton came up strongly in the second half and was back in the game when Michelle Agyemang scaled from a Kiko Seike Assist, but they could not force a level despite monopolizing property and withdrawing Liverpool back.
Interim Baas Amber Whiteley has now won four of her seven games that are responsible for Liverpool, which sent back from the FA Cup semi-final defeat last week against Chelsea.
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Data debrief: United Momentumstutters
United traveled to West Ham, after he won nine of their last 10 WSL competitions and since the beginning of December (27, with Arsenal) earned the joint points in the competition.
And although they kept a 13th clean sheet of the campaign, more than any other team, they did not succeed in taking their chances on the other side.
The Red Devils had 17 shots to West Ham's 10 and achieved a total of 1.71 expected goals (XG) to 0.38 for their opponents.
Only five rescues from Szemik held United Buiten and West Ham is now unbeaten in four league games (one win, three draws) – their longest run since January 2022 (five).