Two objectives from Pernille Harder and a late strike from Niamh Charles got Chelsea a 3-1 win in a tight challenge with Everton.
There were contacting scenes as the groups heated up, with Chelsea players wearing shirts bearing the words “get well soon Emma” across the back on the side of their missing director, who is recuperating from a crisis hysterectomy following her continuous fight with endometriosis. Afterward, the men’s group likewise wore the message before their Head Association match against Aston Estate.
In Hayes’ place for the outing to Everton was her colleague Denise Reddy, who worked with Hayes at Chicago Red Stars prior to joining her at Chelsea in 2020 – albeit the head supervisor, Paul Green, had said Hayes would be stuck to the television and associated with the seat would it be a good idea for her she be feeling like it.
Everton last beat Chelsea in the association in October 2013, with Chelsea having won seven and drawn once from that point forward, scoring 19 and yielding none, however the Merseyside group are changed this season under their Danish chief, Brian Sørensen, who passed on Fortuna Hjørring to join the Toffees.
Consecutive wins, beating Everton 3-0 in the Merseyside derby and Leicester City 1-0, followed a first day of the season rout against West Ham after a line of pre-season misfortunes as the group had the chance to grasps with the new supervisor’s arrangement.
At a sold-out Walton Corridor Park of 1,668 fans, a club-record swarm at the ground, against the heroes, the host group began splendidly. The wing-back Lucy Graham, the Manchester City loanee Jess Park and Sweden’s Hanna Bennison were especially viable.
Chelsea in the mean time compromised reliably down the left-hand side and in the 38th moment they made the forward leap down that flank, with Guro Reiten’s cross headed capably past the goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan by Harder.
Unperturbed, in the final part the Everton players were compensated for their works. Megan Finnigan’s free-kick tracked down Gabby George, the wing-back constrained a save from Ann-Katrin Berger, yet the ball hit the middle back Kadeisha Buchanan and went in.
It required only five minutes for Chelsea to recapture their lead, with Brosnan punished for cutting down Reiten and Harder changing over from the spot. Charles added a third from the seat in added time, moving clear of three Everton protectors prior to terminating coolly past Brosnan.