Chelsea’s five-star showing and Arsenal frustrated at home – Women’s Football Weekly podcast

And the early season woes for Manchester United continued.

They suffered a comprehensive defeat at the hands of Chelsea.

Sonia Bonpastor's side ran rampant in Lee, putting five past the hosts to no reply.

goals coming from Shuka Nushkan, Keira Walsh, Lauren James, Ellie Carpenter and Lucy Bronze.

It was a statement win Susie wasn't it and compared to last week raining goals as well.

Was the victory more about their own ruthlessness or Manchester United's inability to handle them or a bit of a

combo? A bit of both I mean I think we've seen two bad Man United performances in two weeks but Chelsea were fantastically good.

The aggressiveness of the press, the sort of fluidity in the formation I found really interesting.

Like, playing Lauren James in The Force Nine, but having Shokun Ishkin, like...

Almost worked interchangeably with her.

The wide players come in inside a lot.

Lucy Bronze getting forward from the back.

It lined up in a back three and then switched to a back four and then at times looked like a back two because so many were pushing forward.

There was just like an air of unpredictability to them that I think made it really, really hard for to play against as well.

So, yeah, really, really strong performance.

Obviously, not having an out-and-out number nine, but still scoring five goals is a big kind of statement after a lot of questions last week with Mallard and Ramirez injured and Aggie Beaver-Jones not really kind of being a guy in the WSL.

I don't think she

scored since last September.

Yeah, she was dropped to the bench, wasn't she, Aggie Beaver-Jones, Marva, and Lauren James took up that centre-forward role as... as Susie said.

What did you make of the decision?

I understood it and I think obviously it paid off.

You can see from the goals.

I agree with Susie in terms of the fluid formation.

I thought the fact that it was so unpredictable, James was dropping in but then going wide and it was so hard for that Man United team that were already struggling with their formation and exactly where they should be.

It was kind of different problems to what they found against London City where With London City, they were having to push up so high to just try and get on the ball and try and do something that runners were in behind.

And the early season woes for Manchester United continued.

They suffered a comprehensive defeat at the hands of Chelsea.

Sonia Bonpastor's side ran rampant in Lee, putting five past the hosts to no reply.

goals coming from Shuka Nushkan, Keira Walsh, Lauren James, Ellie Carpenter and Lucy Bronze.

It was a statement win Susie wasn't it and compared to last week raining goals as well.

Was the victory more about their own ruthlessness or Manchester United's inability to handle them or a bit of a

combo? A bit of both I mean I think we've seen two bad Man United performances in two weeks but Chelsea were fantastically good.

The aggressiveness of the press, the sort of fluidity in the formation I found really interesting.

Like, playing Lauren James in The Force Nine, but having Shokun Ishkin, like...

Almost worked interchangeably with her.

The wide players come in inside a lot.

Lucy Bronze getting forward from the back.

It lined up in a back three and then switched to a back four and then at times looked like a back two because so many were pushing forward.

There was just like an air of unpredictability to them that I think made it really, really hard for to play against as well.

So, yeah, really, really strong performance.

Obviously, not having an out-and-out number nine, but still scoring five goals is a big kind of statement after a lot of questions last week with Mallard and Ramirez injured and Aggie Beaver-Jones not really kind of being a guy in the WSL.

I don't think she

scored since last September.

Yeah, she was dropped to the bench, wasn't she, Aggie Beaver-Jones, Marva, and Lauren James took up that centre-forward role as... as Susie said.

What did you make of the decision?

I understood it and I think obviously it paid off.

You can see from the goals.

I agree with Susie in terms of the fluid formation.

I thought the fact that it was so unpredictable, James was dropping in but then going wide and it was so hard for that Man United team that were already struggling with their formation and exactly where they should be.

It was kind of different problems to what they found against London City where With London City, they were having to push up so high to just try and get on the ball and try and do something that runners were in behind.