Reading W expected to fight losing battle when facing Chelsea W

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Competition: England Women's Super League
Competition: Sun 11.December
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Kingsmeadow (5339 seats)

Chelsea W greet Reading W with hopes of taking all three points. Will they? Read our match guide!

Insights:
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals (28) in Women's Super League
  • Reading W have lost all their away matches so far.

There have been limited time to rest for the hosting team, as they featured in a Champions League Women match only three days earlier. That game was an away game at Real Madrid W, so at least Chelsea W are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Chelsea W form and stats

4 victories, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Chelsea W, who have the most scored goals (28) in Women's Super League, have to build on here at Kingsmeadow in the Women's Super League. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Chelsea has won eight games in a row. The Liverpool W match was the last time out without a victory.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger not having conceded a league goal in 199 minutes.

The Chelsea W manager Hayes and his players return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Real Madrid W in the Champions League Women.

Before that match, a Women's Super League win away at Leicester W.

It would be a shock if the hosts fail to win this game. Let's see how Chelsea W have performed as huge favourites like they are today: 29 games found in the database showing 28 Chelsea W wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Chelsea W are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (11 goals in 4 games). Chelsea are not conceding a lot of goals here at Kingsmeadow in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 4 matches.

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Reading W form and stats

0-0-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Reading W in their Women's Super League matches away. It's all red in the travel logs of Reading W, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.

Impressive finishing secured the home win 1-0 against Tottenham W in their previous game. That win felt good as this team had gone three league fixtures without victory.

Ahead of that, the League Cup Women victory away at Southampton. Reading are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 12 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 3 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats. Of the defeats, 6 games were lost by at least two goals margin.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Reading W has managed {4 goals} and let in 12 from 4 matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Chelsea W seven wins, two draws and Reading W one victory. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less. Kirby loves to face Reading W and have scored 9 goals in these matches.

Top Goalscorers

Chelsea WF. Kirby
F. Kirby
5 goals
Chelsea WS. Kerr
S. Kerr
5 goals
Chelsea WE. Cuthbert
E. Cuthbert
3 goals

Chelsea W missing players

Reading W missing players

Chelsea W Reading W
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 1 4 9
8 4 0 Won W 0 0 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
1 0 0 Lost L 1 4 6
28 11 0 Scored S 0 4 10
6 2 0 Conceded C 4 12 20
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 78%
78% 75% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 78%
56% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 75% 44%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 22%
56% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 75% 56%
44% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 11%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 33%
 
5.2 5.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 2 4.8 4.1
2.7 3.2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 12 5.2 5.4
0.1 0.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.2 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
13.2 10.8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 2 6.2 7
6.4 5.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2.5 3.1
48% 52% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 36%
 
5.8 6.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 22 11.5 11.8
2.3 2.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 10 6 5.2
Key stats in Women's Super League this season:
  • All of Chelsea W's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Reading W's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Chelsea W have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Chelsea W have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Chelsea W have scored more than double the goals of Reading W.
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals (28) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have the the best goal difference (+22) in Women's Super League
  • Chelsea W have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Chelsea W haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Reading W have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Reading W have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Reading W have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Reading W have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Reading W haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 9 8 0 1 28 6 4 4 0 0 11 2 5 4 0 1 17 4 22 24
2 Manchester United W 8 7 0 1 23 5 4 3 0 1 14 3 4 4 0 0 9 2 18 21
3 Arsenal W 8 7 0 1 21 4 5 4 0 1 14 4 3 3 0 0 7 0 17 21
4 Manchester City W 8 6 0 2 20 9 3 3 0 0 9 2 5 3 0 2 11 7 11 18
5 Aston Villa W 8 4 0 4 12 15 4 2 0 2 8 7 4 2 0 2 4 8 -3 12
6 West Ham W 9 4 0 5 13 18 5 3 0 2 9 9 4 1 0 3 4 9 -5 12
7 Tottenham W 7 3 0 4 11 12 2 1 0 1 1 3 5 2 0 3 10 9 -1 9
8 Everton W 8 3 0 5 7 10 4 1 0 3 3 8 4 2 0 2 4 2 -3 9
9 Liverpool W 9 2 2 5 11 16 5 2 0 3 4 7 4 0 2 2 7 9 -5 8
10 Reading W 9 2 1 6 10 20 5 2 1 2 6 8 4 0 0 4 4 12 -10 7
11 Brighton W 8 2 1 5 11 29 4 1 1 2 5 14 4 1 0 3 6 15 -18 7
12 Leicester W 9 0 0 9 2 25 5 0 0 5 1 17 4 0 0 4 1 8 -23 0

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.