Veerle Buurman scored a late winner as holders Chelsea beat Tottenham to reach the Women’s FA Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Sam Kerr put Chelsea ahead in the 40th minute when she headed home via the post from Keira Walsh’s cross.<\/p>\n
Spurs responded after the break, with Eveliina Summanen’s free-kick evading everyone in the box and flying over England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton’s head for an equaliser.<\/p>\n
Chelsea had a chance to retake the lead in the 82nd minute, but Kerr was unable to add a finishing touch to Wieke Kaptein’s superb ball across the six-yard box.<\/p>\n
With extra-time on the horizon, Buurman unleashed a fierce strike from the edge of the area to send Chelsea into the last four.<\/p>\n
The Blues, who were knocked out of the Champions League by Arsenal last week, had several early opportunities before they took a first-half lead on Monday.<\/p>\n
Lauren James’ curling effort looked set for goal before a vital interception from Spurs goalkeeper Lize Kop.<\/p>\n
Alyssa Thompson was also denied by Kop, who reacted well to the forward’s first-time strike at the near post.<\/p>\n
But Buurman’s first Chelsea goal gave her side a much-needed win going into the international break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veerle Buurman scored a late winner as holders Chelsea beat Tottenham to reach the Women’s FA Cup semi-finals.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-568122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568122","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=568122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}