Arsenal made it eight Women’s Super League home games unbeaten as they eased past West Ham at Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n
Stina Blackstenius poked home from Chloe Kelly’s cross in the fourth minute as Arsenal got off to the perfect start.<\/p>\n
The Gunners missed a host of chances to further increase their lead with Blackstenius, Kelly and Olivia Smith having shots saved by West Ham goalkeeper Kinga Szemik.<\/p>\n
Two minutes into the second half, Alessia Russo increased Arsenal’s lead when she headed home from Smilla Holmberg’s cross.<\/p>\n
After 55 minutes, Kelly scored her first WSL goal since October with a strike from the edge of the box that nestled into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
The England international got a second when she pounced on Tuva Hansen’s mistake to slot in from close range.<\/p>\n
Beth Mead scored to made it five in the 90th minute, latching on to Holmberg’s pass and firing past Szemik to compound a miserable afternoon for the Hammers.<\/p>\n
There was concern for Eva Nystrom who did brilliantly to stop Blackstenius scoring a second goal but injured herself in the challenge and left the pitch on a stretcher.<\/p>\n
The result means Arsenal remain fourth, with two games in hand on the teams above them, while West Ham stay 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal made it eight Women’s Super League home games unbeaten as they eased past West Ham at Emirates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-551356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}