{"id":419470,"date":"2026-01-17T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:58:07","slug":"womens-fa-cup-sam-kerr-scores-two-as-chelsea-beat-crystal-palace-london-city-defeat-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419470\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s FA Cup: Sam Kerr scores two as Chelsea beat Crystal Palace, London City defeat Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Kerr scored twice as holders Chelsea put five goals past WSL2 side Crystal Palace to reach the fifth round of the Women&#8217;s FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millie Bright found an early opener for Sonia Bompastor&#8217;s side, nodding in a corner at the back post to take the lead in the 13th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blues made it 3-0 by the half-hour mark, with Kerr coolly rolling the ball under Shae Yanez after being slipped through by Erin Cuthbert before Guro Reiten converted from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old Australian added another in the 52nd minute when she headed in a Reiten cross, before Alyssa Thompson provided Chelsea&#8217;s fifth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunderland, the other WSL2 side in action on Saturday, were also unable to cause an upset as they were beaten by London City Lionesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London City were dominant throughout but managed to produce few chances against a Sunderland side who set up well at the back and reduced the available space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With open-play opportunities being limited, it took a set piece for the visitors to find the game&#8217;s only goal in the 50th minute as Wassa Sangare met a corner at the near post and sent a headed effort over Grace Moloney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The draw for the fifth round will take place on Monday, 19 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Kerr scored twice as holders Chelsea put five goals past WSL2 side Crystal Palace to reach the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-419470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419470","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=419470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}