After Emma Hayes had announced she would be leaving at the end of the season Jonas Eidevall had playfully teased, amid praise for the Chelsea manager, that he wanted to make “life in the WSL as difficult and unpleasant” as possible for her.
In front of another Women’s Super League record crowd of 59,042 at the Emirates Stadium, a stadium in which Sam Kerr had stood years before her move to Chelsea and wondered what it would look like with 60,000 fans in it, Eidevall’s side delivered a stunning 4-1 win to put them level on points with the league leaders and rip the title race wide open.
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