After the first game it's Chelsea W - Manchester City W 0-0 in points. Who will prevail in this second Women's Super League fixture of the season?
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Chelsea W form and stats
The previous season, Chelsea W's league results were 18 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, leading to 1st spot in the Women's Super League. From these 22 matches they scored 62 goals and gave away 11. Playing as the home team in the previous season Chelsea W managed 10-1-0 (win-draw-lost) with 29 goals and 4 conceded.
The followers are hoping that Chelsea W will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the game against Liverpool W (placed 4th). Before that defeat this team had gone nine consecutive league meetings without being beaten.
Before that, a strong away victory at Portland Thorns W. A Women's International Champions Cup game.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Chelsea as they have a new game in only three days, a Women's Super League match thankfully also at home. West Ham W are visiting.
Manchester City W form and stats
Let's have a look at how Manchester City W performed last season in the Women's Super League: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 15 victories, 2 draws and 5 defeats. In total they scored 60 and conceded 22 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 1 and lost 2 with 29/11 goals scored/conceded. The visitors' first away game in the Women's Super League ended in defeat. Last season Manchester City W had these away match statistics: Played 11; won 8, drew 1 and lost 2.
Manchester City W play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 3-4 to Aston Villa W (placed 3rd). That defeat stopped this club's string of league matches in a row without losing; 18 games in total! A bizarre game with an abundance of goals last time out for Manchester City W, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that fun game, will this match be as much fun?
The fixture before that was the Champions League Women-battle against Real Madrid, a home loss (0-1).
It's early days yet, but Manchester City W has scored 3 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the prior ten meetings involving these two contenders are: seven wins for Chelsea W, two draws and one win for Manchester City W. Over 2,5 goals: nine times; under 2,5 goals: one game.
Top Goalscorers
  L. Coombs 2 goals |  F. Kirby 1 goals | K. Shaw 1 goals |
Chelsea W missing players
Manchester City W missing players
| Chelsea W | Manchester City W | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 43% | 43% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Chelsea W | Last season | Manchester City W | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 22 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 22 | ||
| 18 | 10 | Won | W | 8 | 15 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 62 | 29 | Scored | S | 29 | 60 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 11 | 22 | ||
| 91% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 68% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 86% | ||
| 59% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 68% | ||
| 50% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 64% | 59% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 32% | 27% | BTTS | BTTS | 27% | 27% | ||
| 64% | 73% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 55% | ||
| 14% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 18% | ||
| 6.2 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.4 | 7.4 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 2.6 | ||
| 0.6 | 0.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.6 | 0.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.4 | 13.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 13.3 | ||
| 6 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.9 | 6.3 | ||
| 47% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 43% | ||
| 4.2 | 3.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5.7 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.1 | 2.3 | ||
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 |
| 2 | Manchester United W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | Aston Villa W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Liverpool W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | West Ham W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Tottenham W | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
| 7 | Manchester City W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | Chelsea W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | Leicester W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Everton W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Brighton W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
| 12 | Reading W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 62 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 7 | 51 | 56 |
| 2 | Arsenal W | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 65 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 4 | 55 | 55 |
| 3 | Manchester City W | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 60 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 11 | 38 | 47 |
| 4 | Manchester United W | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 45 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 23 | 42 |
| 5 | Tottenham W | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 23 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 32 |
| 6 | West Ham W | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 33 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -10 | 27 |
| 7 | Brighton W | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 24 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 20 | -14 | 26 |
| 8 | Reading W | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 40 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 22 | -19 | 25 |
| 9 | Aston Villa W | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 40 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 23 | -27 | 21 |
| 10 | Everton W | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 19 | -23 | 20 |
| 11 | Leicester W | 22 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 53 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 27 | -39 | 13 |
| 12 | Birmingham W | 22 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 51 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 31 | -36 | 11 |
