Tranmerekat on Tour: Kerr She Goes

Manchester United Women play Chelsea WFC in the FA Cup Final at Wembley

Here we are back at Prenton Park Sarf. It's Reds v Blues , West London v South London (stop that!) in the first final for the Red Devils. The Blues have won it a few times including the last 3 and one or two others recently. These two teams are also in contention for the WSL title so what will it be; will it be honours shared or will someone do the double. It's the clean sheet Queen 👑 (Mary Queen of Stops ⛔) against the backflipping 🤸‍♀️ goal machine Sam Kerr. Can't wait..

It starts badly for the Blues. Leah Galton scores in 20 seconds. Not that we could see because late arrivals were still coming in and the crowd in front was standing up. Good job that is was ruled offside for Tooney earlier in the move. Chelsea continued to struggle and were under pressure for a good, or bad, 5 minutes. In a rare move, Chelsea play forward and Lauren James leaves it as she is miles offside but then she tries to shield the ball from Maya before Nieve can get there. It's clearly offside as Lauren is interfering but it takes an aaaaage for the whistle to go. Was a bit strange and not sure what the thinking was from anyone. Nikita is having a good game and hits the target but it is saved on 12. A Tooney freekick leads to a goalmouth scramble but AKB makes the save. Chelsea are creating their own problems sloppy passing giving the ball away in dangerous areas. Leah Galton misses at the near post. Finally, Lauren James goes on one of her runs and curls it into the top corner but Mary stretches to save it hurting herself in the process. No score at the interval and its looking a bit one sided. Chelsea need to find something.

It restarts and is scrappy in the middle but long balls give chances both ways. Utd at the first to make changes to try to break the deadlock. Williams comes on for Nikita and Toone goes wide right. They have taken their best player off. To make it worse Harder and Ingle come on. Harder has 2 quick two chances. The goal comes from Guru s incisive pass, harder pulls it back for Kerr to slam home out of the reach of a scrambling Earps on 62 ⚽. We are treated to our first Sam Kerr backflip. Charles off for Carter to show up the defense. The game is now more open for Chelsea. More changes with Garcia on for Blundell and Manion on for Toone. Ella does not look happy at being subbed and goes off in a grump. Williams is enjoying the physicality but Erin Cuthbert on the receiving side, less so. Sophie Ingle has a chance on goal but blasts it way over the bar. Ona beats Carter out wide but her cross is scuffed by Russo and the chance is lost. The 90 is nearly up when Buchanon comes on for James and the blues and go to 3 at the back. Shades of Steve McNulty in 2019 that change. It goes into 6 mins of injury time and the Reds get a late corner, Mary goes up but Garcia's cross is saved by AKB. All over at Wembley. The Blues win today but the Reds are leading the chasing pack.

It was a better game than the scoreline would have you believe. We were at the Man Utd end but cheering for the CHELS. It would have been very different if the early goal had stood but both sides could have done with being calmer and more efficient. Chelsea have won the FA Cup for the 4th year 🏆🏆🏆🏆 in a row and now need to concentrate on the WSL to make it a quadruple of doubles. There was also a record crowddanc for a domestic Women's match of 77,390 people and 1 Meerkat.

POTM: Is on the losing side for once but it goes to Nikita who is on fire 🔥 at the moment. Hope she gets to the World Cup 🌍🏆.

Scranometer went off in a sulk too after the old style veggie burger. It was at least fairly warm so get a 3/10 for that. Compensation came from the pick n mix which was yummy even if it did cost the same as the match tickets.

Just one game to go. See you there.

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