Arsenal star’s playmaking role looked a good idea on paper, but she was unable to take the game by the scruff of the neck
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In fairness, they did warn us. Perhaps, on reflection, we should have listened to Jonas Eidevall and Emma Hayes when they urged us not to treat this game as a title decider. It was many things: taut, tense, turbulent, controversial, stressful in the extreme, particularly in the closing minutes when it felt as if the entire game could pivot on a single lucky bounce.
In the end, though, nothing was decided and nothing was settled.
Chelsea maintained their seven-match unbeaten run, their fate still in their own hands.
Arsenal retained their two-point lead at the top of the Women’s Super League, and the knowledge that the hardest games of their season – Chelsea home and away,
Manchester United home and away,
Manchester City home and away,
Tottenham away – are now behind them. The most open WSL in years still feels as if it will go down to the wire.