{"id":257090,"date":"2025-11-02T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:19:08","slug":"sam-kerr-scores-first-goal-for-chelsea-blues-in-two-years-ellie-carpenter-barclays-womens-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257090\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Kerr scores first goal for Chelsea Blues in two years, Ellie Carpenter, Barclays Women\u2019s Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Kerr marked her long-awaited return to the scoresheet for Chelsea, netting her first goal at Stamford Bridge in almost two years as the reigning Women\u2019s Super League champions defeated the London City Lionesses 2-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Matildas captain, who has battled injury setbacks over the past year, came off the bench in the second half to a huge ovation from the home crowd before delivering a trademark finish in the 94th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Right-back and fellow Aussie Ellie Carpenter opened the scoring inside six minutes, latching onto a low cross at the back post to claim her first goal for the club since joining from Lyon in the off-season. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carpenter was one of Chelsea\u2019s sharper performers, before being replaced by Kerr midway through the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides managed only three shots on target, but Chelsea\u2019s efficiency proved decisive as they extended their unbeaten run and retained top spot in the WSL, one point clear of Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Chelsea, it\u2019s always difficult when you have to play a game after the international break,\u201d Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have time to prepare for the game in terms of tactical aspects and physical aspects, so there is not a lot you can do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing is you can try to come into the game with fresh legs, and I think maybe the difference today between London City and us was the energy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that before the game. I said to the girls at halftime, we need to play smart and to make sure we mentally make the effort to show more desire than in the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Kerr marked her long-awaited return to the scoresheet for Chelsea, netting her first goal at Stamford Bridge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,151621,63,2057,43263,24575,147322,78342,2022,151619,3583,151622,151620,85,151623,3586],"class_list":["post-257090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-aussie-ellie-carpenter","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-fox-football","tag-home-crowd","tag-injury-setbacks","tag-international-break","tag-london","tag-long-awaited-return","tag-northern-europe","tag-sharper-performers","tag-sonia-bompastor","tag-sports","tag-trademark-finish","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}