Kiko Seike scored twice as Brighton defeated Charlton to secure their first win of the season in the Women’s Super League.<\/p>\n
Charlton, who won promotion from the Championship last season, had only scored once in their opening four league games, losing all of them.<\/p>\n
However, the visitors took a third-minute lead when Cassandra Korhonen reacted quickest to score the rebound after her first attempt had been saved by home goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie.<\/p>\n
But the Seagulls quickly took control of the game and scored a 26th-minute equaliser when Olivia Garcia got to the byline and pulled the ball back for Seike to score.<\/p>\n
Brighton took the lead just before half time with a similar goal to their first. Garcia was again the provider, with former England international Fran Kirby applying the finish.<\/p>\n
Any hope of a Charlton fightback ended in the 54th minute when Seike grabbed her second of the afternoon, firing a loose ball home from inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n
Brighton scored again late on when Maisie Symonds got a slight touch on Marisa Olislagers’ right-wing corner and Gabby George made it 5-1, heading in from close range deep into added on time.<\/p>\n
Charlton remain the only WSL side to have zero points, with five losses from their opening five games.<\/p>\n
They are also only the third team in WSL history to be beaten in all of their first five matches. Yeovil Town lost seven in a row in 2017 and Leicester City began the 2021-22 campaign with nine successive defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiko Seike scored twice as Brighton defeated Charlton to secure their first win of the season in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-920533","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\/920533","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=920533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}