Tottenham began the season with three wins and a draw from their opening four league matches.<\/p>\n
A win on Sunday would have taken them top of the WSL, although that may have only been for a couple of hours with Manchester City, who won their opening four games, playing Arsenal later on.<\/p>\n
But London City, given the huge investment they have made in their squad, look the more likely of these two to mount a title challenge.<\/p>\n
They finished sixth in 2025-26 but made major signings in the summer, including Putellas and defender Mapi Leon from Barcelona, along with Diani from Lyon.<\/p>\n
This was a fourth win in five WSL games, and its manner sends out a message.<\/p>\n
Head coach Eder Maestre felt the result and performance would demonstrate to the rest of the league that his Lionesses can make a push for the title.<\/p>\n
“The three points are the same as you can have in every game, but this kind of win can be a game changer in terms of showing everyone that we are pushing hard,” said Maestre.<\/p>\n
“But, at the same time, we need to be humble as well. The teams that are used to being there and occupying these places [at the top] are still there.<\/p>\n
“I’m so happy we’re hitting our targets. When you have these kind of players it is about trying to find chemistry and it takes time. It’s a process and we’re in the process of building something strong.”<\/p>\n
London City will not be in action for another two weeks because of the international break, and will hope that does not affect their momentum.<\/p>\n
For Tottenham, the heavy defeat was a reality check.<\/p>\n
Head coach Martin Ho said his team “looked scared with the ball” and added: “Really poor, not acceptable from us as a group. Defensively we didn’t win a first ball, a second ball. Duels, we were poor. We have to move on.<\/p>\n
“The team collectively needs to own that and we will, and that starts with me, I take responsibility for it.<\/p>\n
“We were just not at it, but that can’t be the level. Everyone will be disappointed – that was not the level we expect. We conceded six goals and you don’t want to be doing that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham began the season with three wins and a draw from their opening four league matches. A win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-870653","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\/870653","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=870653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}