National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's West Ham W or Chelsea W that keep their silverware dream alive.
Only a few days to rest for the hosting team, as they played a Wsl 1 Women fixture only three days back. That game was an away game at Tottenham W, so at least West Ham W are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
West Ham W form and stats
Ham was eliminated in the semi-finals last season in the League Cup Women.West Ham W have collected 9 points from their Wsl 1 Women home games so far after 2-3-0. 3W-0D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the League Cup Women for West Ham W.
West Ham W manager Harder and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Tottenham W in the Wsl 1 Women.
Ahead of that match, West Ham W won a home game hosting Brighton W (3-0).The match schedule is unforgiving for Ham as they have a new game in only four days, a Wsl 1 Women match thankfully also at home. Everton W are visiting.
West Ham W have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Chigwell Construction Stadium with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Ham are not conceding a lot of goals here at Chigwell Construction Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 5 matches.
Chelsea W form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Chelsea W, as they won the League Cup Women.The story so far for the visiting team on their Wsl 1 Women travels is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.
Two away games in a row for Chelsea, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-4 versus Wolfsburg W in the Champions League Women. Chelsea W 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.
A 0-1 defeat away at Reading W before that.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Chelsea W manager Hayes as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Brighton W.
Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 13 goals in 5 league games away this season. 5 goals have been conceded by Chelsea W in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: zero - one - seven (West Ham W wins - draws - Chelsea W wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Kerr 9 goals |  F. Kirby 6 goals |  J. Fleming 3 goals |
West Ham W missing players
Chelsea W missing players
| West Ham W | Chelsea W | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 9 | 18 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 40 | 25 | Scored | S | 35 | 66 | ||
| 27 | 9 | Conceded | C | 12 | 21 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 80% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 72% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 28% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 54% | 60% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 16% | ||
| 3.9 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 5.8 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 3.5 | ||
| 1 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 0.6 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 9 | 7.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.4 | 14.4 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 6.5 | ||
| 33% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 40% | ||
| 10.8 | 7.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.9 | 6.7 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Arsenal W | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 25 | 25 |
| 2 | Chelsea W | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 21 | 21 |
| 3 | Manchester United W | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 21 |
| 4 | Tottenham W | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 21 |
| 5 | Manchester City W | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 19 |
| 6 | Reading W | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 7 | Brighton W | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | -4 | 15 |
| 8 | West Ham W | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 14 |
| 9 | Everton W | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -7 | 11 |
| 10 | Aston Villa W | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | -19 | 10 |
| 11 | Leicester W | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 14 | -18 | 6 |
| 11 | Leicester City W | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Birmingham W | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 17 | -25 | 4 |
