{"id":853465,"date":"2026-09-19T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853465\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:38:12","slug":"wsl-round-up-chelsea-and-london-city-lionesses-ease-to-victories-over-birmingham-city-and-charlton-athletic-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853465\/","title":{"rendered":"WSL round-up: Chelsea and London City Lionesses ease to victories over Birmingham City and Charlton Athletic | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea and London City Lionesses climbed to second and third in the Women&#8217;s Super League table with respective victories over Birmingham and Charlton.<\/p>\n<p>After thumping Manchester United 5-0 last weekend, Chelsea won again as Lexi Potter and Melvine Malard secured a 2-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/skysports-wsl-womens-super-league_7356101.jpg\"   alt=\"Melvine Malard celebrates after doubling Chelsea's lead against Birmingham\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Melvine Malard celebrates after doubling Chelsea&#8217;s lead against Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>Potter found the roof of the net in the eighth minute and in the 71st minute France star Malard made a quick impact from the bench with her first goal at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/skysports-wsl-womens-super-league_7356040.jpg\"   alt=\"Lexi Potter opens the scoring for Chelsea against Birmingham\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Lexi Potter opens the scoring for Chelsea against Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>London City lost 2-1 to West Ham last time out, but kept in touch with leaders Manchester City with a 4-1 triumph at promoted Charlton.<\/p>\n<p>Isobel Goodwin&#8217;s brace had London City two goals ahead after 15 minutes and, despite Jodie Hutton halving the deficit in the 39th minute with a fine finish, Jana Fernandez restored their advantage before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>German forward Nicole Anyomi made sure the outcome was no longer in doubt with the Lionesses&#8217; fourth after 76 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea and London City Lionesses climbed to second and third in the Women&#8217;s Super League table with respective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-853465","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\/853465","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=853465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}