{"id":362557,"date":"2025-12-21T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362557\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:55:12","slug":"womens-league-cup-chelsea-thrash-liverpool-as-arsenal-man-city-and-man-utd-also-reach-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362557\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s League Cup: Chelsea thrash Liverpool as Arsenal, Man City and Man Utd also reach semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal beat Crystal Palace 2-0, while Manchester United overcame Tottenham 2-1 to complete the semi-final line-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laia Codina&#8217;s looping header put Arsenal in front after 20 minutes, but Renee Slegers&#8217; side were unable to increase their advantage until Stina Blackstenius netted in second-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crystal Palace, the only Barclays WSL 2 side left in the competition, played in front of a record crowd of 3,040 at the VBS Community Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c2epmdk1nz3t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thrilling 3-3 encounter<\/a> between Manchester United and Tottenham in the WSL last weekend, United emerged victorious this time with a narrow 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drew Spence opened the scoring for Spurs, but second-half goals from Jess Park and Fridolina Rolfo were enough for Marc Skinner&#8217;s side to progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal will host Manchester United in the semis, which will be played over 21 and 22 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal beat Crystal Palace 2-0, while Manchester United overcame Tottenham 2-1 to complete the semi-final line-up. Laia Codina&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-362557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}