FT: Chelsea secure dominant win
New Man Utd boss Olid's first home game
Former Hearts head coach lost opener at London City Lionesses
Visitors Chelsea drew against Aston Villa on first weekend
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
That's it from Emirates Stadium - but we still have one more game to come in the WSL today.
Champions Manchester City visit Aston Villa in the late fixture, and you can follow the live text coverage of that match right here from 18.00 BST.
See you then.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Arsenal boss Renee Slegers speaking to BBC Sport: "It was frustrating. We're disappointed with the result, we wanted more for ourselves and the fans. Yes, there was good things but at the end of the day it's about scoring and we didn't do that today."
"We had about 30 shots in the game, we are getting there into finishing positions. We want to be disciplined. If we didn't get to shooting positions, it would be worse but we got into those positions."
"This is only round two, we should've won today, we should've scored today but we didn't."
On next weekend: "There's things that we want to bring to next weekend, it will be a new game, we are mainly going to focus on ourselves."
I survived sepsis - now I manage Burnley Women
Away from the WSL for a moment and down to the second division, where Burnley manager Jackie Bachteler has a remarkable story to tell.
The American will be in the dugout at Turf Moor today for the first time - less than a year after being diagnosed with sepsis and fighting for her life just weeks after joining the club.
It took her months to recover and she still suffers from regular post-sepsis symptoms, but it has given 37-year-old Bachteler a new perspective on life.
Bachteler reflects on her journey as it coincides with World Sepsis Day, and BBC Sport women’s football news reporter Emma Sanders tells her story over here.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Arsenal's Georgia Stanway speaking to BBC Sport: "It's a tough one to take, even tougher because we completely dominated. Created a lot of chances, a lot of shots, the ball didn't go in the back of the net. It's disappointing, this early on we don't want to be dropping points. There is a lot to take from today though. It means a lot but it doesn't mean anything in what comes for us."
"We can have a moment today to reflect and be disappointed. All focus is to United. I know it's frustrating and we didn't get the ball in the net but there's a lot of positives."
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace boss Jo Potter, speaking to BBC Sport: "We knew there'd be moments where we could hurt Arsenal. The atmosphere, the pitch, the players can be energy sapping. My players did excellent in showing a new side to the game today."
"We've played the game's going to come thick and fast, we can't get too carried away with it. We've got to keep learning, building. The ambition before the season was to stay up. We're an ambitious group, this is a good tick along the way."
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FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace boss Jo Potter on the addition of Peyraud-Magnin: "We knew we had to strengthen in many departments to fight in this league. It's that experience of knowing what top level football is like. She's so calm, so laid back and it really helps in that position. She's taken on information extremely well. She's working extremely hard and I think she's just enjoying being back out in the pitch."
On the substitute window debacle last week: "We know you can't dwell on things in this league. If you take your eye off it against Arsenal, they'll wipe you off the floor. They're a team to be reckoned with, we knew we'd have to fight. I never questioned where anyone's head was at."
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Renee Slegers says shooting practice will be a "big part" of training in the coming week for Arsenal.
Full quotes from the Gunners boss to come.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Player of the match Aimee Everett speaking to BBC Sport: "Just about got my breath back, took a point from them, it's huge. Going off the back of last week, we knew we could come and get something from it. It shows a whole collective effort, the team, the subs that came on, unbelievable."
On last week: "We deserved the three points last week. Put it aside, we don't want to rely on it, it's a long season. Our focus was on coming here."
"Possession doesn't win you games. The defensive performance we had last week, we knew we need it again today but more."
"Huge things, two seasons ago we weren't happy. We know we're capable of staying in this league, we know we're capable of showing that. It's a long season, only two weeks in."
"Always difficult coming to the Emirates, the fans carried us through that. We'll roll up our sleeves and go again next week."
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FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Palace keeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin is having a laugh with her coaches on the sidelines. She made eight saves today and was critical to this result.
She made 16 league appearances for Arsenal between 2018 and 2020. The curse of the returning player strikes for the Gunners.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Arsenal's next three WSL fixtures are Man Utd at home, Chelsea away, Manchester City away.
How damaging dropping two points today is, will perhaps only become clear after that run of games.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Two seasons ago, Crystal Palace lost all eight of their London derbies in the Women’s Super League, conceding 39 goals in total at an average of 4.9 per game.
In four previous meetings with Arsenal, they lost all four by an aggregate score of 20-0.
That's how big today's result is for them.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Gilly Flaherty
Former WSL defender on BBC Two at Emirates Stadium
It's a huge result for Palace, you can see the emotion in the coaching staff, the squad and the bench. That was an absolute shift by them, they had to dig deep and it wasn't pretty at times. They came here with a gameplan, frustrate Arsenal, who had chances but couldn't convert.
As the frustration grew, Palace's confidence grew. They thoroughly deserve those points.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Fara Williams
Former England midfielder on Final Score
That's a massive point for Palace. Two clean sheets for Jo Potter, last year they only had one so already they've shown improvement. For the amount of opportunities and possession Arsenal had, this Palace side showed a really good stubbornness in the box.
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So proud of the Eagles. Such a gutsy display. Great point against a top side.
Peter, Surrey
As an Arsenal fan games like this are so frustrating. We need to create better, we know we’re going to face low blocks and we haven’t figured them out since Jonas.
Martin, London
No ball speed, too many touches, no intensity, a lack of imagination, poor composure. More significantly, as at the start of last year’s campaign, too many good chances not taken
JM, Cornwall
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Palace players and staff, led by manager Jo Potter, celebrate in front of their away fans - and rightly so.
Amid all the noise about the subs controversy last weekend, they never lost their concentration today.
There might be an asterisk next to it for now, but they have four points from the opening two games.
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Arsenal had 30 shots, nine on target. They had 79% possession, including SEVENTY-FOUR touches in the Palace box.
But they could not get it done. Could that cost them in the long run of the WSL title race?
FT: Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Gilly Flaherty
Former WSL defender on BBC Two at Emirates Stadium
For me, the whole Palace defence has been brilliant but Aimee Everett is my player of the match. She's led by example all game and she has dominated the match-up between her and Alessia Russo.
Arsenal 0-0 Crystal Palace
Palace are there! No controversy about this result.
Arsenal will be furious with themselves.
Rampant Chelsea return to form in Man Utd thrashing
Chelsea bullied a disjointed Manchester United side to claim a dominant 5-0 win, their first of the Women's Super League season.
Goals by Sjoeke Nusken and Keira Walsh gave the Blues a comfortable lead at the interval as the hosts struggled to emerge from their own half at Leigh Sports Village.
In her second league game in charge, United manager Eva Olid could not transform her side's fortunes as second-half goals by Lauren James, Ellie Carpenter, and Lucy Bronze consigned the Reds to a second successive defeat and left Olid with much to ponder.
Chelsea, meanwhile, blew the cobwebs off a disappointing home draw on the opening weekend to deliver the ruthless performance manager Sonia Bompastor had asked for.
In spite of Chelsea's dogged intent to smother United from the off, the first chance of the game fell to United forward Elisabeth Terland, but her close-range toe-poke was easily held by Hannah Hampton. The hosts would not have another sight of goal for 70 minutes.
Attacking with patience, Chelsea took the lead after 21 minutes when Dominique Janssen's failure to deal with a long ball forward by Bronze allowed Wieke Kaptein to square it to Nusken for a straightforward finish.
United's performance was perhaps best summed up by them squandering their sole corner of the game; a naive routine ending before it had begun as Andrea Medina was called offside.
On her 100th appearance, Walsh doubled the visitors' lead with a signature finish from the edge of the box after Bronze seized a United clearance and cleverly disguised a pass to her England team-mate.
United lost full-back Medina, their brightest spark, to injury early in the second half, and it was not long before James, in dazzling form, added Chelsea's third, claiming an arrow-like through-ball by Walsh and slotting home at the far post.
Beleaguered Janssen was robbed again for Chelsea's fourth, as Carpenter finished emphatically after an initial save by United goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce.
In injury time, Bronze added to United's woes, slamming a fifth goal into the roof of the net from close range after the hosts failed to deal with a corner.
Two games, two defeats - are Olid's Man Utd in trouble?
Eva Olid was appointed in August after former manager Marc Skinner stepped down
If United's opening weekend defeat by London City Lionesses blunted optimism for the new Olid era, their performance against Chelsea was a cause for concern.
Save for one or two moments of fluidity, United appeared a team yet to gel and spent most of the game camped in their own half.
The Reds particularly struggled at goal-kicks, when forward Terland failed to make it stick as long balls forward bypassed the side's most skilled ball-players.
Olid's side have registered just two on-target shots in their first two league games, with last season's star attacker Jess Park peripheral once again against Chelsea.
In August, United appointed Olid with a long-term outlook. She has work to do to bring her side closer to the "brave" attacking football that she has promised.
Lauren James has scored in both of Chelsea's first two league games
Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor asked for ruthlessness in this game - and she got it in spades.
Last week, Blues fans watched with anxiety as Chelsea failed to add a second goal after James' opener, peppering Aston Villa with 26 shots before conceding an equaliser.
Prior to that however, they had scored six goals across two qualifiers with Real Sociedad in the Women's Champions League and here Bompastor named Aggie Beever-Jones on the bench and played without a main striker.
Her team ran riot at Manchester United, five scorers scoring five very different goals as Chelsea flaunted a range of threats.
The Blues showcased the tenacity and cohesion required of a side hoping to regain the title and five goals goes some way to quieten doubts about their clinical edge.
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 1 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 0 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -6 | 0 |
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Manager:Eva Olid
Formation:4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager:Sonia Bompastor
Formation:4 - 3 - 3
Manager:Eva Olid
Formation:4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager:Sonia Bompastor
Formation:4 - 3 - 3
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