Suzu Amano’s dramatic 87th-minute equaliser helped Birmingham City secure a point after a six-goal thriller against Crystal Palace in the Women’s Super League.<\/p>\n
Birmingham had taken the lead after just 40 seconds when the visitors, who were thumped 7-0 by Tottenham last weekend, were punished for some sloppy play.<\/p>\n
Defender Allyson Swaby’s poor pass was intercepted by Lee Geum-Min, who slipped in Oceane Hurtre and she stylishly curled the ball into the top corner with the outside of her boot.<\/p>\n
Palace equalised on the half-hour mark when Blues goalkeeper Sophie Baggaley got herself in a tangle and allowed Shanade Hopcroft’s long free-kick to bounce over her head.<\/p>\n
The Eagles were only on level terms for three minutes, as French forward Hurtre chased a long ball, outmuscled Jamie-Lee Napier and exquisitely finished from a tight angle across goal and into the net.<\/p>\n
Palace, though, drew level for a second time when Baggaley tipped Sierra Enge’s chip on to the bar and Bethany England pounced on the rebound to stab home.<\/p>\n
They got their noses in front when Lexi Lloyd-Smith picked the pocket of Marie Levasseur on the left flank after the Blues defender slipped, before cutting inside and finishing clinically.<\/p>\n
However, Birmingham ensured they claimed a share of the points when Japanese midfielder Amano swept the ball home from inside the box following a counter-attack.<\/p>\n
They remain winless after four games and are third from bottom in the table on two points, while Palace are eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suzu Amano’s dramatic 87th-minute equaliser helped Birmingham City secure a point after a six-goal thriller against Crystal Palace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-911813","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\/911813","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=911813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}