Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Chelsea W & West Ham W face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup Women. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Chelsea W and West Ham W.
Chelsea W form and stats
This stadium has been a fortress for Chelsea W in the Wsl 1 Women so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 6-0-0. On the other hand, in the League Cup Women, Chelsea W has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. The Chelsea W fans aren't used to losing league-games here and will expect new points from this game. Chelsea W has played 16 games in a row here without a defeat. Chelsea W has a nice streak going on as they have played 33 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Birmingham W defeat 738 days ago.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger not having conceded a league goal in 209 minutes.
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Chelsea played a great game against Tottenham W and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Brighton W are coming to town in four days.
Chelsea W always seem capable of creating a buzz here with 25 goals in 6 league games. Chelsea are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
West Ham W form and stats
West Ham W was sent out of League Cup Women in the group stage last season.The visitors are W2-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Wsl 1 Women. When we have look at the League Cup Women statistics, we find 3W-1D-0L. This is both home and away.
Ham aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 184 league minutes without a goal. M. Thomas was the last player to find the net.
Ham lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
After this away game Ham return home for a Wsl 1 Women game against Bristol City W. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The travelling fans enjoy Ham's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. For West Ham W, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Chelsea five wins, one draw and West Ham W zero victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Reiten 3 goals |   E. van Egmond 3 goals |  M. Leupolz 2 goals |
Chelsea W missing players
West Ham W missing players
| Chelsea W | West Ham W | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 21 | 13 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 6 | 13 | ||
| 78 | 47 | Scored | S | 18 | 45 | ||
| 15 | 6 | Conceded | C | 27 | 53 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 77% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 58% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 52% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0.5 | 0.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 13.2 | 14.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 9.8 | ||
| 5.9 | 6.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 5 | ||
| 53% | 54% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 34% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Chelsea W | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 32 | 32 |
| 2 | Manchester United W | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 21 | 32 |
| 3 | Manchester City W | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 31 | 27 |
| 4 | Arsenal W | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 30 | 23 |
| 5 | Everton W | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 17 |
| 6 | Reading W | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | -7 | 15 |
| 7 | Tottenham W | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 17 | -9 | 12 |
| 8 | Birmingham W | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -6 | 10 |
| 9 | Brighton W | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -21 | 9 |
| 10 | West Ham W | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -15 | 7 |
| 11 | Aston Villa W | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -20 | 7 |
| 12 | Bristol City W | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 49 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 31 | -40 | 5 |