2-0 at half-time. Both goals by Fleets

Thanks for updates Agent Smith and am guessing it was Shlj who informed you

Well done to Mrs Stewart

Forgot it was an early ko.
I presume Agent S got her info from Agent Dave

From Shlj:
4-1, Fleeting 3, Grant, White.
5 mins to go.

Grant?! What is it with central defenders in Arsenal - they just can't help but score

And White from Chelsea scored I assume

Unless Faye is back early and got an own goal

That's not impossible

FT 4-1
A competitive game to watch, according to Shlj

4-1 Woo!

Suppose we will have to wait longer for the Leeds v Charlton score

Well done to the Arsenal Like to hear how Ciara scored...maybe from a goal mouth clearence

Was gonna go to this game , looks like I missed a good game

Well done to the girls

Good game and very competitive as well. Our Kelly nearly got sent-off again
She got booked because there was a wild sliding tackle on Jayne and she stopped the game by taking the ball with her hand while the ref was wawing play on. That's a stupid yellow card. And then she proceeds to do wild tackle and fouls in the next two minutes. The referee was lenient the whole game and she got away with it.

Chelsea started without Ellen White in front talking about shooting themselves in the foot.
She made a lot of damages as soon as she came in. Dunia Susi was a handfull and made it hard for Alex Scott for most of the game. There was a funny moment as well at half time when she went straight to the Arsenal dressing room instead of the Chelsea one
Kelly Smith made the first goal : a quaterback 30 yard pass from the center of the field to the left wing where Rachel crossed for Julie to score after a rebound.
Second goal a clearance by Emma was misjudged by the center back number 5 leaving Julie with a one on one. She managed to put in between the leg of the keeper. That's a lucky goal because 9 time out 10 the keeper will save it : basically the central nerves system kicks in after about 400 milliseconds while the reflex system does the job immediately about 50 milliseconds and there is a small gap when both system do not concure at about 200/300 mms and that's what happened.
HT 2-0 Second half 3-0 Ciara a corner kick or a free kick by Leanne and a winning headrer from Ciara or the 6 yards line. 4-0 Julie Lianne dribbling on the right wing a cutbak and Julie who managed to get unmarked from the center back with a good powerful finish.
4-1 Ellen White a clearance for the Chelsea defence knocked over the Arsenal center back and White beat Emma on the one on one. First domestic goal let in by the team that was not a penalty.

I forgot the teams :

Arsenal : no surprise all the big guns
Byrne Scott Grant Asante Phillip Chapman Ludlow Smith Sanderson Fleeting Yankey
Subs Davison for Yankey Larkin for Phillip Buet for Sanderson not used Spenser

Chelsea : Collie Perry De la Salle Cooper Downham Susi Clarke don't know the rest of the players.

Also Arsenal was very much more direct than usual , Emma did a lot more kicking than usual as Arsenal could do the usual slow build-up form the back due to Chelsea's pressing game. I think both teams were very aware of the opposition strentgh and lot of the play was to minimised the opponent weapons. Arsenal also was stronger physically than Chelsea and won the battle in the middle of the park due to this. That's why Chelsea subbed Nicki de la salle at half time because she was getting none of the ball.

They have shown the goal on Skysports news, Iwas watching the men's game in the pub and I saw the goals . Chelsea's goal is really disapointing : Caz cleared the ball and it bounce over Ciara and Anita letting Ellen White to finish it

Sensation !!!

Charlton Athletic 2-2 Leeds United

Leeds won 4-3 on penalties!

Well done Leeds!!


So now we have an Arsenal Ladies v Leeds United final

and what do Arsenal Ladies do with Leeds in Cup finals?

Another final for the girls against Leeds as well. Great hopefully not too far away from London.

IMO this one should be far from London actually.
First of all - the last one was next to London
and second: Leeds are far from London and came down to play v Arsenal at the FA Cup final.
Now they (and their fans) deserve for this League Cup final to be closer to Leeds.

You never know how the FA can organise stuff.

True

as a neutral it was a pity that Chelsea gave away two soft goals early on, one a missed clearance and the other a bizarre goalkeeping error. From then on Chelsea came back into it a bit but the all round fluidity of Arsenals passing and their ability to win the 50-50 balls meant that Chelsea were always at full stretch to keep them out. Apart from the obvious stars I thought that Grant, Asante and Chapman were really good for their ability to win their tackles and then use the ball simply. There were so many things to admire from the star players that make them a joy to watch. It shows that the gap between Arsenal and the rest is still huge.

I think in two years Chelsea's players will have maturity and will be on par with Arsenal.

How do you know that?
Did you follow them in?

Thanks for the reports mate