Chelsea W fearless before departure for Birmingham W clash

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Competition: England Women's Super League
Competition: Sun 01.May
Match begins: 17:45 (UTC)
Venue: St. Andrew's Stadium (30009 seats)

Birmingham W will pray that their home support is enough to get some points from this demanding duel, vs passionate Chelsea W.

Insights:
  • Birmingham W have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals (57) in Women's Super League

Chelsea W are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table.

The visiting Chelsea W played their last game only three days ago, a Women's Super League match.

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Birmingham W form and stats

Birmingham W's struggle is real here at St. Andrew's Stadium with only 4 points collected from 10 Women's Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-8.

A good away victory last time out for Birmingham W, who won 3-1 against Brighton W (placed 7th).

In the match before that, Birmingham hosted Everton W and drew the game 0-0.

The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Chelsea W to win. Let's see if Birmingham W are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: nine games found revealing zero Birmingham W wins, zero draws and nine defeats.

There will be little rest for Birmingham W after this match as they are travelling to Manchester City W for a Women's Super League game in only three days.

Birmingham W aren't scoring a lot here at St. Andrew's Stadium in the league, with only 5 goals from 10 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Birmingham defense is not exactly impregnable. 19 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Chelsea W form and stats

Chelsea W have an excellent away record in the Women's Super League so far with 7-1-2 from 10 games. Things are running smoothly for Chelsea W who hasn't tasted defeat in their last eleven matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Reading W.

Chelsea are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the fixture against Tottenham W (placed 5th).

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Tottenham W at their stadium, the result 3-1.

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Chelsea W given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 17 matches with 16 wins as expected, one draw and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won 13 of these games by at least two goals.

The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Chelsea alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (32 from 10 played). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).

Head 2 Head

The most up to date past meeting featuring both these contenders is the Chelsea W - Birmingham W 5-0 played earlier this season. Head-to-head numbers (for the previous ten meetings): Birmingham won one game, one match ended with a tie and Chelsea W got eight wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three

Top Goalscorers

Chelsea WS. Kerr
S. Kerr
18 goals
Chelsea WB. England
B. England
8 goals
Chelsea WG. Reiten
G. Reiten
6 goals

Birmingham W missing players

Chelsea W missing players

Birmingham W Chelsea W
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 10 3 Played P 3 10 20
2 1 1 Won W 3 7 16
2 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
15 8 2 Lost L 0 2 2
14 5 4 Scored S 13 32 57
44 19 5 Conceded C 0 7 9
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 90%
79% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 70%
53% 40% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 70% 60%
42% 20% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 60% 50%
32% 20% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 40% 30%
37% 20% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 30%
11% 20% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 65%
58% 70% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 15%
 
2.4 2.2 1.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 6.2 6.1
5.8 4.8 6 Corners against (avg) C A 2 3.5 3
0.8 0.9 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 0.6 0.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
4.4 3.7 4.3 Shots (avg) S ( 17.7 13.1 13.6
2.1 1.9 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 8 6 6.1
36% 26% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 54% 53% 47%
 
9.5 8.8 7.7 Shots against (avg) S A 3.3 5 4
4.7 3.9 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0.7 2.4 1.9
Key stats in Women's Super League this season:
  • Birmingham W have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Birmingham W have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Birmingham W have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Women's Super League
  • Birmingham W have the fewest points (4) at home in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have created more than twice as many corners as Birmingham W.
  • Chelsea W have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Chelsea W have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Chelsea W have scored more than double the goals of Birmingham W.
  • Chelsea W have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the most clean sheets (13) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals (32) away in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals (57) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals in the first half (31) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the the best goal difference (+25) away in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the the best goal difference (+48) in Women's Super League

  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 20 16 2 2 57 9 10 9 1 0 25 2 10 7 1 2 32 7 48 50
2 Arsenal W 19 14 4 1 53 10 9 8 1 0 30 6 10 6 3 1 23 4 43 46
3 Manchester United W 21 12 6 3 43 18 11 8 1 2 29 11 10 4 5 1 14 7 25 42
4 Manchester City W 20 13 2 5 50 22 10 6 1 3 25 11 10 7 1 2 25 11 28 41
5 Tottenham W 19 8 4 7 21 18 10 4 3 3 11 8 9 4 1 4 10 10 3 28
6 West Ham W 21 7 6 8 23 31 10 3 4 3 14 13 11 4 2 5 9 18 -8 27
7 Brighton W 21 8 1 12 23 37 10 4 1 5 10 17 11 4 0 7 13 20 -14 25
8 Reading W 20 7 3 10 21 36 10 5 1 4 12 14 10 2 2 6 9 22 -15 24
9 Aston Villa W 20 6 3 11 13 32 10 1 2 7 5 16 10 5 1 4 8 16 -19 21
10 Everton W 20 5 3 12 15 38 10 2 2 6 9 20 10 3 1 6 6 18 -23 18
11 Leicester W 20 4 0 16 14 52 10 3 0 7 9 26 10 1 0 9 5 26 -38 12
12 Birmingham W 19 2 2 15 14 44 10 1 1 8 5 19 9 1 1 7 9 25 -30 8

Read more about Women's Super League

The FA Women’s Super League (FA WSL) is the highest level of women’s football in England. It has been through numerous format changes since its first season in 2011. Eleven teams play 20 fixtures to create the final league table and decide who are champions.